Legume family – embedders of nitrogen

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!

Peas and green peas, growing them from seed to harvest

Growing green peas is quite easy and is very enjoyable. It usually starts in the spring and continues during summer.

Snow peas for refreshing meals!

Snow pea is a variety of green pea for which the seed and the pod are eaten together. To savor them until you burst, plant some in your vegetable patch!

Snow pea pods and their contents gathered in a spoon

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.

Lentil plants growing in a vegetable patch, with pods ready for the harvest

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!

Legume family benefits in home and garden

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

Sweet pea, magnificent annuals

Sweet pea is a flower that we indulge in all summer long.

Natural fertilizer for the vegetable patch

If you want to stop bloating your vegetables with polluting chemical fertilizers, it is time for you to familiarize yourself with natural fertilizer! No need to keep poisoning water reserves and setting local environments off balance anymore.

Healthy vegetable patch with natural fertilizer

Organic gardening ABCs

Organic gardening means gardening together with nature instead of against it. Organic growing techniques endeavor to respect soil, plants… and the consumer, too. They rely on vegetable and fruit species that are well-suited to local growing conditions.