The Vegetable Patch

Mushroom lovers, great news! For one, they are a good source of nutrients for our bodies. For the other, you can grow your own in the comfort of your homes! Growing mushrooms is easy with a little guidance. Although you cannot use a normal garden soil, you can use spent coffee grounds. Each batch will […]

Eggplant is a delicious vegetable / fruit, a must-have in any vegetable patch.

Fennel is a plant for which the roots are the part we eat and its nutritious and culinary value is exceptional. It is a very good summer vegetable.

Butternut gourd, also called simply butternut, is one of the most popular squash varieties.

Broccoli stands out with its distinct green flower head, and is a delicious vegetable that is easy to grow.

Brussels sprouts are vegetables that are mineral-rich and great for intestinal transit when cooked.

Growing tomatoes without stakes allows for an abundant harvest: one plant will give you a production equivalent to three staked tomatoes.

Physalis or Peruvian coqueret is a plant that offers cute, perfectly edible fruits.

Its rough taste sends the weak-spirited away. Nonetheless, Brussels sprouts are an excellent source of vitamin C and fibers.

It can be eaten as a side or main dish, and it is easy to harvest. Such assets will lead you to want to grow red beet in your vegetable patch!

Savoy cabbage and kale are delicious vegetables that make for easy growing.

Celery is a vegetable where the entire plant is edible: root, stalks and leaves.

Zucchini is an easy plant to grow that will delight your taste buds from summer to fall.

The purple Vitelotte noire, or black vitelotte, isn’t only reputed for its striking violet flesh, but also for the delicious particular taste it shares when cooked.

Cauliflowers are vegetables that have low calorie levels and have high fiber, calcium and magnesium contents.

Red kuri, like all squash and gourd plants, spreads over vast areas as it grows. Plant red kuri vertically to maximize growing space in your entire vegetable patch!

For the spring school holidays, nothing beats introducing your children to the world of gardening. This will make them more sensitive to the environment and to the food they eat.

More and more amateur gardeners indulge into this trendy new option: raised garden beds. Smart, convenient and cost-effective, elevated garden beds boast many advantages and

Cucumber and pickle is easy to grow as long as a few basic practices are followed.

White onion, red onion and yellow onion are ancient bulb plants that are easy to grow.

Red beet are excellent vegetables with high mineral and vitamin contents that are easy to grow.

Carrot is undoubtedly one of the most commonly grown vegetables, and one of the tastiest, too.

At the start of every meal or as a finishing touch, a few crisp, fresh greens always bring a touch of delight to your meal menus.

Lettuce is an easy salad plant to grow, which needs little space and is open to all, even if all you have is a terrace or balcony.

Spinach is a vegetable that is both easy to grow and has the advantage of being planted early in the season.

Corn salad is an easy type of salad green that is easy to grow, requires little space and is open to all, even if all you’ve got is a balcony or terrace.

Colocynth is what is called an “ornamental vegetable”.

Even if this might come as a surprise to many, the growing of artichoke is relatively simple to pull through.

Asparagus is a delicate-tasting vegetable and growing it means paying attention to a few things.

Just like humans, vegetables also have friends and foes. Some families stimulate or protect each other. Other families tire each other out and make each other vulnerable.

Tomato is a vegetable-fruit that is among the most consumed vegetable available, and it’s also the most grown in our vegetables gardens.

Garlic is a perennial vegetable plant which is a must-have in the vegetable patch. It craves sun.

Biting into the juicy fragrant flesh of a home-grown tomato is within your reach if you have a little space in your vegetable patch.

The epitome of summer fruits, watermelon is easy to grow when it can receive all the summer sun it needs. From sowing to harvest, here are all the best practices to grow it.

Melon is a tasty and deliciously flavorful fruit.

Shallot is both easy to grow and delicious in cooking.

Spaghetti squash, named after the famed Italian pasta, is an easy fruit to grow that is very appealing on the dinner table.

Gourd or squash is a familiar fall vegetable.

Fresh onions in spring, preserves in winter: plant onions in your vegetable patch to provide for year-round availability in the kitchen!

If you want to stop bloating your vegetables with polluting chemical fertilizer that is poisoning our water tables and spurring an onslaught of green algae,

Transplanting means moving a young seedling from one place to the next. You must pull it out delicately, and plant the young sprout in its final location

A sprig of basil here, a couple oyster mushrooms or cherry tomatoes there… It’s possible to taste home-grown versions of these delicacies even if you live in an apartment!

Wild or cultured purslane is a crawling plant that has leaves that are appreciated for their slightly lemony taste.

Chard or Swiss chard, sometimes known under the name of silverbeet, is a vegetable that is appreciated for its leaves and for the ribs or stems that bear them.

Mizuna looks like lettuce, it is very similar to arugula. A crunchy texture and peppery taste are what make it much sought after.

Persons living in an apartment also have the right to grow their own vegetables. Actually, you don’t need to have a lot of land to plant seeds or plants. With our tips and tricks you’ll discover how easy it is to have your own vegetable patch on a balcony!

Turnips have a long history and without doubt are among the most tasty.

Much tastier than any tomato purchased in a store, tomatoes sown from seed are also more flavorful than those purchased in nursery pots.

Here is the calendar for sowing and preparing seedlings in the vegetable patch, so that you’ll get everything done at the right time in winter, spring, summer and fall.

Rhubarb is an easy plant to grow and its harvest is often abundant.

Germinating potato tubers before planting them helps increase  growth of your young plants, bring the harvest a few days or weeks earlier, and increase the harvest.