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Advice on how to grow vegetables from seed to harvest, care for them, protect them from diseases, and boost harvests. Natural treatments only!

Radish: from sowing to harvest, how to grow it

 Radish

Sowing in seed holes, give natural selection a boost

 Sowing in a seed hole

No-stake tomatoes – without cages or stakes, grow tomato directly on the ground!

 no stake tomato

Curly endive, a salad with a subtle taste

 Curly endive

Rototiller, scores of advantages

 Rototiller

Sowing in rows, get the basics right

 Sowing in rows

Escarole, a lettuce that resists cold weather well

 Escarole, chicory

Grow vegetables on a patch of limestone soil

 Grow vegetables in alkaline, limestone soil

Watermelon, how to grow it best

 Grow watermelon

Nettle and tomato – convert weeds into great harvests!

 Nettle good for tomato

Enjoying tomatoes in the garden

Citron melon, a rare melon for jam: planting, growing and care

 Citron melon

What is citron melon? What does it look like?

 What is citron melon

Direct sowing, sowing plants directly in the ground

 Direct sowing

Prepare seedlings in a nursery: how, when and why

 Sowing in a nursery

Swede, how to sow, grow and get large roots for winter

 Swede, Brassica napobrassica

How to grow cucumber (and pickles!) for a beautiful harvest

 growing cucumber

Tomato suckers: remove or keep? [Battle begins]

 Tomato suckers, keep or remove them

Helianthis, a root vegetable with beautiful flowers

 Helianthis - Helianthus strumosus

Root parsley, the double-decker parsley

 Root parsley

Salsify, a delicate subtle taste

 salsify

Plant Snow pea for refreshing meals and snacks!

 Snow pea

Beans, all the tips on how to grow them

 Growing beans

Sowing, different ways to sow seeds

 Sowing

Sorrel, a unique taste

 Sorrel

Greens and lettuce for every season

 Four seasons greens in crates

Perennial leek, delicious, tasty… and self-caring, too!

 Perennial leek

Sowing in trays, crates or boxes

 Seed sowing tray

Tomato care – watering, fertilizing, companions, pruning…

 Tomato care

Vitelotte, or black vitelotte, the China truffle

 A sliced vitelotte black potato on a fresh harvest shows its purple insides.

Silverbeet, a leaf & stem vegetable

 Planting silverbeet

Covered sowing, why and how to protect seedlings in spring

 Covered sowing

Cardoon, planting, care, blanching

 cardoon

Brussels sprouts, a touch of green in winter

 Brussel sprouts for winter

Rhubarb, from planting to harvest

 rhubarb

Tomato, sow your tomatoes the right way

 Tomato sowing

Onions all year round

 onions all year round

Purslane, an uncommon green: growing from seed to harvest

 Purslane

Bell peppers and chili, fabulous to grow

 Growing bell pepper and chili

Squash and gourd, how to grow them

 Squash and gourds, a harvest

Life goes on in the vegetable patch

 vegetable patch in fall with spinach growing in the foreground

Turnip, fleshy and very tasty, especially when home-grown!

Bell pepper, a carnival of colors

 Single green bell pepper on the plant

Chinese cabbage, a vegetable to (re)discover

 Chinese cabbage harvest

The legume family, perfect for the garden and the dinner table, too!

 Legume family benefits in home and garden

Prune your cherry tomato to make sure you get a harvest

 Steps and guidance to prune a cherry tomato plant like this one

Endive, chicory, from seed to harvest

 Growing endives is easy, especially if you know how to force them

Growing vegetables on your balcony, give it a try!

 Tomato plant on a balcony with fruits ripening

Permaculture main principles and definition

 Permaculture principles is like a flywheel building up speed

Save seeds from good tomatoes to grow next year

 Envelope with tag showing saved tomato seed

Dandelion, people actually grow it!

 Dandelion in field