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Brassicaceae

Plants of the Brassicaceae family are very healthy, and they share their bounty right when we need it most: winter!

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Spring garden tasks for each portion of the garden

 Spring garden tasks

Spring sowing and planting in the vegetable patch

 Rows of lettuce and radish sowed and planted in a spring vegetables patch.

Companion planting in the vegetable patch

 Raised beds with companion planting

Red cabbage health benefits and therapeutic value

 Red cabbage heads in a wicker basket with straw

Wallflower, it loves climbing high

 Wallflower growing and care

Caterpillars, organic treatments to control them

 Two caterpillars on a nasturtium leaf with pellets of waste.

Black radish, the winter radish

 Black radish

Mizuna cabbage, japanese greens

 Three greens: lettuce, mizuna cabbage and coriander

Brussels sprouts, all there is to know about growing them

 A small pyramid of fresh brussels sprouts doused in water.

Sea kale, Crambe maritima – a seaside cabbage both cute and tasty

 Clump of sea kale with gravel mulch.

Arabis, alpine rock-cress, like a basket of silver in spring

 An arabis alpina shrub in full bloom covered in small white flowers.

Cauliflower, everything there is to know about growing it

 Cauliflower

Which vegetables to grow in winter?

 Winter vegetables

For a sustainable garden

 Sustainable gardening

White mustard, both spice and green manure fertilizer

 White mustard - spice and green manure fertilizer

Ornamental cabbage, beautiful in winter

 decorative Ornamental cabbage

Perennial vegetables: plant once, harvest for years!

 Perennial vegetables

Arugula, easy-growing greens for mixed salads

 arugula

Rutabaga, all the tips on how to grow rutabaga

 Rutabaga

Savoy cabbage, a frizzly-headed cabbage for winter

 Savoy cabbage

Cabbage white butterfly, get rid of Pieris brassicae caterpillars!

 Pieris brassicae - Large white

Broccoli, all there is to know about growing broccoli

 broccoli

Cabbage, how to grow it and different varieties

 Cabbage

Savoy cabbage health benefits, a great regulator for digestion

 Benefits of savoy cabbage

Turnip health benefits, a sweet root with vitamin C for winter

 Health benefits of turnip

Red radish health benefits, fight off exhaustion

 Radish health benefits

Radish: from sowing to harvest, how to grow it

 Radish

Kale health benefits and therapeutic value

 Benefits of kale

Sweet alyssum, cute ground cover

 Sweet alyssum, Lobularia

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

 Swede, Brassica napobrassica

Cauliflower health benefits, vitamins without the calories

 Health benefits of cauliflower

Green manure, use cover plants to fertilize the next harvest!

 Green manure steps to prepare

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

Chinese cabbage, a vegetable to (re)discover

 Chinese cabbage harvest

Bollworms, dreaded caterpillars defoliating vegetables

 Large bollworm on a cabbage leaf with excrements

No-treat vegetable patch: easy peasy

 Easy growing for vegetables without even treating

Candytuft, superb ground cover

 Candytuft spreading ground cover, white.

Rutabaga health benefits and therapeutic value

 Health benefits of rutabaga

Ravenelle wallflower, easy and flower-bearing

 Yellow flower of the ravenelle wallflower

Lacinato kale, a swarthy, dark vegetable posing as an ornamental

 Lacinato kale leaves growing lush and tall