The Vegetable Patch - page 3

Be it for herbs, greens or tomato, a square-foot vegetable patch works best when a few simple rules are followed.

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

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

Red kuri squash, also called Orange Hokkaido squash and Japanese squash, is a delicious vegetable, fleshy and tasty.

Crop rotation helps generate abundant harvests. It’s also very effective at reducing crop diseases and maximizing nutrient availability for plants.

Swede, also called rutabaga when its flesh is yellow, is an  ancient heirloom vegetable that is particularly well suited to climates where winters are cold and moist.

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.

Escarole is a salad green that is appreciated for its delicious leaves and for the ease of its growing and its hardiness.

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.

Growing salsify starts in May whereas the harvest takes place in fall and winter.

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

Sowing seeds in a nursery has many advantages, the greatest of which is that it enables certain plants to start growing in ideal conditions.

Shallot is both easy to grow and delicious in cooking.

Round, long, pointy even. Black, white, purple and striped. Eggplant definitely knows how to surprise us! Discover 6 staple eggplant varieties that are easy to grow in the garden.

This method, one of the most common, is widely used for growing vegetables. It is very easy to perform and is particularly well suited to outdoor sowing

If the summer is hot, watch over the vegetables in the patch and take up these easy and organic habits to ensure you get a proper harvest.

The Brandywine tomato has a fragrant taste, and many appreciate it for its dense, juicy flesh.

‘Black Zebra’ tomato: key facts

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

Goosefoot key facts: Botanical name – Chenopodium Common name – goosefoot Family – Amaranthaceae Type: leaf vegetable

An easy veggie to grow, eggplant is a pleasure to eat as well. With its purple peel and white flesh, the summer-flavored fruit vegetable make our fests a true delight. Discover the most important step to grow this staple vegetable in your patch: planting.

Thanks to a much softer flavor, white eggplant will add a touch of originality to your summer dishes. Discover 3 varieties and how to grow them! To learn more, read: Eggplant: easy care for abundant harvests Eggplant: 6 varieties to savor How and when to prune eggplant? White eggplant: what’s the difference vs purple? The […]

Spring is a busy season for planting and sowing, busy as in “buzzy” since bees and insects have joined the show in the vegetable patch! You need to clean, sow, repot, transplant, and more if you want to harvest

To maximize your crop this summer, remember to prune your eggplant correctly! To get things right, there are a few rules to follow. Let us tell you which ones.

The queen of moussaka and ratatouille, eggplant is among those vegetables we’re happy to meet again in summer. To grow a fabulous harvest, follow our tips on how to care for it.

Want to grow your own vegetables, but you’re never home? If you’re one of the persons who can only visit their garden once a week or less, go for a self-managing vegetable patch!

Beans, which come in many varieties, are very easy vegetables to grow.

With their elongated shape, Torino tomatoes might seem like just another type of tomato. That’s without considering the exceptional amount of lycopene it contains!

Well, there’s quite a lot to clarify between us and the tomato. This king of vegetables has already conquered our plates, that’s for sure!

Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable? It’s a question many keep asking. Some call it a vegetable because we often pair it with salt, in main courses or sides during meals. Others, with quite a haughty attitude, quip back that it’s most assuredly a fruit!

Banana legs key facts: Botanical name – Solanum lycopersicum Common name – Banana legs tomato Family – Solanaceae Type – fruit vegetable

Dandelion is by far the most famous weed flower in our temperate climates. It can be appreciated all season long from March to November, but, it must be said,

Chayote is an exotic vine that produces large pear-shaped fruits that are very nutritious.

Most types of tomato plants are vegetables that never stop growing. The botanical term to describe this type of blooming and fruit-bearing is the word indeterminate.

“Climate change”. Hard to have a day go by when this phrase isn’t heard in a conversation. And, like it or not, seasons are changing: frost dates are shifting, winters get milder, summer heat waves strike stronger, drought becomes a thing where it previously never was…

Tomatoes come in many different varieties, some of which stand out when compared to others. This is the case for the ‘Black Krim’ tomato!

If you’re looking for a tomato with a strange shape, you’ll probably see the ‘Roma’ high up on that list! Great choice!

It looks like a large chili, which makes the ‘Andine Cornue’ tomato among the most recognizable.

The ‘Pineapple tomato‘ is a variety that produces large red-orange fruits (even yellow ones) that have very few pips.

A classic in many vegetable patches, the ‘Marmande‘ tomato owes its success to its large, tasty fruits.

Chufa key facts Botanical name – Cyperus esculentus Common name – chufa Family – Cyperaceae Type – perennial

Let’s play a little guessing game: which vegetable patch fruit is shaped like a heart, has a strong taste and firm flesh?

Easy to grow, lacinato kale is also a tasty vegetable to cook with. Palm tree kale key facts Botanical name – Brassica oleracea acephala ‘Nero di Toscana’ Common name – Black Toscana, palm tree kale, dinosaur kale, black kale, palm tree kale

These turn gardeners crazy during harvest time with their green color that just stays green! ‘Green Zebra’ tomatoes add a welcome touch of something different in the vegetable patch, and in the plate, too!

The small pits inside a tomato are the plant’s seeds. When you slice a fruit in half, the center of it is full of juice and small seeds. It’s possible to collect them, press out the juice, dry them, and sow them again in the following year. Did you know there were a few tomato […]

Broadcast sowing mostly relates to outdoor lawns. It also is the way to start practically all covered sowing. Outdoor plants can occasionally be sown in growing beds in this manner

‘Indigo Rose’ tomato key facts: Botanical name – Solanum lycopersicum Family – Solenaceae Type – fruit vegetable

Primora tomato key facts: Botanical name – Solanum lycopersicum Family – Solenaceae Type – fruit vegetable Height – up to 6 feet (2 m)

Key Honey Moon tomato facts: Botanical name – Solanum lycopersicum Common name – Honey Moon tomato Family – Solenaceae Type – fruit vegetable

Ha! Basella comes as an amazing diversification after the more classic spinach that most of us are familiar with.

Gardeners face each other off with pitchforks when it comes to this question… It’s a topic that’s almost as controversial as that of whether tomato is a fruit or a vegetable! Discover both options regarding sucker removal here, the pros of each and our tips to make the choice that’s right for you.