The Vegetable Patch by Nature & Garden

Preparing an organic square-foot vegetable patch

You’ll simply adore biting into the organic vegetables you’ve grown yourself – all the more because it won’t have cost you any heavy garden work at all! Preparing an organic square-foot vegetable patch is your key to this dream situation.

Enjoying tomatoes in the garden

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.

Easy-growing tomatoes is child's play, like this toddler savoring a tomato on a bench.

Watermelon, how to grow it best

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 the tips to grow it.

Sowing in seed holes: 3-5 seeds to cluster

Sowing in seed holes is very similar to sowing in rows, the only difference is that seeds are grouped in clusters instead of being sown one by one.

Peanut sprouting after having been sown in seed holes

Sowing, different types of sowing

Who hasn’t yet dreamed of sowing a plant to see it sprout in their garden, admiring the magic of a seed bursting forth and growing to become an entire plant? There is nothing that a gardener enjoys more than the pleasure of watching a seedling grow. This growing technique is actually very easy, and is […]

Sowing is performed in various ways depending on the plant and the climate

Sorrel, a unique taste

Sorrel is a delicious herb plant from which the leaves are eaten. Their acidic taste is quite distinctive.

Beloved red beet

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!

Different ways of preparing red beet: juice, sliced, sticks

How to grow cucumber

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

Cucumber and pickles grow from the same plant.

Celery, a delicious vegetable

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

Vitelotte, or black vitelotte, the China truffle

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

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

Germinating potatoes at the right moment

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

Germinated potatoes chopped up in quarters for more plants.

Oakleaf, a delicious lettuce

Green, red or gold oakleaf lettuce is an easy lettuce to grow, that requires very little space, and is open to everyone, even if you only have a balcony. On your marks, get set, SOW!