Garlic – the treasure trove clove

5 Natural remedies for winter

Winter often triggers bouts of cold and everyone seems to catch the sniffles.

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!

Alliums and Cancer, powerful and potent

They’re crisp and tasty and some may even bring you to tears when cooking… All for good reason!

Allium vegetables and spices including onion, garlic, leek and bunching onion fill the image, ready to be cooked with insparsed parsley to combat cancer.

Garlic health benefits and therapeutic value

Garlic, or Allium sativum, is a bulb perennial about 12 to 16 inches (30 to 40 cm) tall, which we love for its nutritional properties, taste and health benefits.

Boils, preventing them or treating them naturally

Often quite painful, a boil is an infection due to a bacteria that develops in the cavity that a single hair grows from. Usually appearing on the face, thighs, armpits, shoulders, scalp, beard, back, tip of the eyelashes, neck or buttocks, this skin infection wrecks havoc because of the “premature death” of cells. First it […]

Which vegetables to grow in winter?

There are several different vegetables that are hardy enough to the cold that you can still make the vegetable patch an enchanting place to be. Zoom in on kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, winter lettuce…

Magic potions from plants… for plants!

Prepare your own magic potions! Infusions, decoctions, fermented tea… take advantage of natural plant properties to easily prepare organic fertilizer and treatments at a very low price.

Potions with plants on a bench, fertilizers and treatments

Garlic decoction, technique and timing

Garlic decoctions are an excellent solution to treat most diseases and fungus that impact plants, fruit trees and vegetables in the vegetable patch.

Garlic and clove on a countertop with a dark background, still life

Rocambole, the crazy garlic… and also known as sand leek?!

Rocambole garlic is named after a fictitious character with an extravagantly nutty behavior. Rightly so! This garlic grows its cloves at the tip of its stems!

Rocambole, or sand leek, flower containing cloves

Spring Detox course

Cleansing and boosting the body at winter’s end is the goal of a detox course. Feeling light and full of energy as days grow longer and more beautiful is only a few bites away!