Saving heirloom vegetables… right in your own garden!
Join in on the fight to secure ancient heirloom vegetables: plant them in your vegetable patch!
Beans
Bean stalks are highly productive. Get the right varieties growing with this selection of plants of the Fabaceae family.
Sowing and transplant calendar for the vegetable patch
Here is the calendar for sowing vegetables and transplanting seedling so that you’ll get everything done at the right time in winter, spring, summer and fall.
Bean blight, 7 diseases that cause spots and wilting on beans
Beans are a favorite in the veggie patch, and not only for us! Many types of bean blight exist, caused by fungus, viruses, mites and bacteria. They infect bean plants and trigger brown or yellow spots,wilt, and other issues on bean leaves, bean pods and vines. Here are the main culprits responsible for bean blight.
Rotate crops in the vegetable patch
Crop rotation helps generate abundant harvests. It’s also very effective at reducing crop diseases and maximizing nutrient availability for plants.
Permaculture fertilizers and compost
Underlying the success of every garden is the health of its soil – this is particularly true in permaculture. Fertilize it with fresh nutrients like compost, maintain it, disturb it only when absolutely necessary. Your soil will stay healthy and fertile, and its quality will increase
6 steps to start a vegetable patch. No more, no less!
Been wanting to start a veggie patch but not sure how get started? Find out how to start your first vegetable patch in 6 key steps!
25 Vegetables that resist drought and dry spells
“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…
Container pea, how to grow green peas in containers
Green pea, a veggie plant from the Fabaceae family, definitely gets a lot of love for its round, smooth (and sometimes wrinkled) peas. Typically, it’s eaten cooked, and they’re delicious – but there’s lots more to know about them!
Peas and green peas, growing them from seed to harvest
Growing green pea is quite easy and is very enjoyable. It usually starts in the spring and continues during summer.
Lentil health benefits and therapeutic value
Lentil is a very significant food. It has been grown since the dawn of civilization for its seeds. They’re full of health benefits and nutrients, especially protein.
Plant Snow pea for refreshing meals and snacks!
Snow pea is a variety of green pea for which the seed and the pod are eaten together.
Beans, all the tips on how to grow them
Beans, which come in many varieties, are very easy vegetables to grow.
Cross-pollination, when genes mix to breed new plants
Cross-pollination is when pollen from one plant variety fertilizes flowers of another variety,
Spring sowing and planting
There it is! Spring! Rather than cramming to fit everything in a single month, stage your sowing and planting wisely to maximize your harvests and avoid spring burn-out.
Companion planting in the vegetable patch
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. Companion planting is the art of pairing them well!
Bean health benefits and therapeutic value
Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) are native to Central America and South America and are among the oldest cultivated plants in the world.
Lentil, from seed to harvest
Known and renowned for its nutritional properties, lentil is an annual plant that is a cinch to grow in the garden.
The legume family, perfect for the garden and the dinner table, too!
Beans, peas, lentils, soybeans… the legume family all share flowers shaped like butterfly wings, roots that lock nitrogen into the soil, and seeds that have high levels of protein. To sum it up, it just what any garden needs!
How to grow beans in 3 minutes
Beans are delicious when freshly harvested from the garden, and with this snappy happy video you’ll have your beans growing in no time! Works for all kinds of pole beans (broad bean, snap bean…) Read more ►
Broad bean health benefits and therapeutic value
Broad beans (Vicia faba) are the seed of an annual plant that is part of the Fabaceae family.
Broad beans, easy and quick to grow
Broad beans are a type of bean and part of the legume family. They’re easy and quick to
Garden with your kids
Nice weather usually means eating more delicious fruits and vegetables. Why not seize the chance to garden and grow your own together with your children?
Growing vegetables on your balcony, give it a try!
Persons living in an apartment also have the right to grow their own vegetables, don’t you think? 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!
No-treat vegetable patch: easy peasy
Experiment with companion planting which has by now proven its effectiveness in organic vegetable gardening. It’s easy, all pros and no cons: no treating and less work!
Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch
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
An effortless veggie garden
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!
A small patch of green
Mini garden, courtyard or balcony: if astutely set up, your little patch under the sky can become a space where life is great.
