September garden tasks for early fall
Summer is slowly fading away, and September is one of the key months for your garden tasks.
Marigold
Marigold is the name used for a few different species. All have one thing in common: stocky, round orange and yellow flowers! Learn about growing them here.
Companion planting: pair vegetables with flower and herbs!
When plants live as neighbors, they’re just like us: often, they really help each other out, but sometimes they just can’t stand each other!
Grow flowers for food!
Certain flowers are both ornamental and edible. Feel free to try them out, a feast for eyes and taste buds alike!
Direct sowing, sowing plants directly in the ground
Whether for vegetables or certain flower species, direct sowing or sowing in the plot is very easy. It takes place in spring, after the last frost has passed. It’s also practiced during summer for the planting of most fall and winter vegetables.
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!
Attract butterflies with plants, flowers, and other tips
Attract butterflies to your garden! Threatened because their natural habitat is dwindling, and because of pesticides, butterflies can find refuge in our very own gardens,
How to make children like gardening
Whether in an apartment or in a house with a garden, gardening with children is a true pleasure that also has very educational benefits! Arousing curiosity, teaching patience and respect, this time of family bonding
Marigold health benefits and therapeutic value
Calendula officinalis, often called pot marigold or medicinal marigold, is a flower with a very bright yellow orange color
Marigold, a generous flower
Marigold is a pretty little annual that blooms from spring until the first frosts.
French marigold, always an impact!
French marigold is a plant that exhibits very beautiful flowers during the summer.
9 orange-flowered plants for the garden
Orange flowers really make a garden feel peppy and active! Perennials, shrubs, bulb and annual flowers flash their orange hues for a vitamin-packed garden.
A potted garden on a terrace with containers
On a deck, terrace or balcony, it is easy to set up a container garden in pots for every season. Plant a series of garden box flowers that will bloom one after the other. Read also: Fruit trees for balconies, decks and terraces Potted plants, the tips to succeed in growing them Drought resistant pot […]
