Vegetable patch

Crop rotation helps generate abundant harvests. It’s also very effective at reducing crop diseases and maximizing nutrient availability for plants.

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…

If you want to stop bloating your vegetables with polluting chemical fertilizers, it is time for you to familiarize yourself with natural fertilizer!

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.

In the vegetable patch, summer is the season for harvests, but sowing still continues for lettuce, cabbage and other vegetables for winter.

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!

“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…

You’ll simply adore biting into the organic vegetables you’ve grown yourself – all the more because it won’t have cost you any heavy garden work at all! Preparing an organic square-foot vegetable patch is your key to this dream situation.

Join in on the fight to secure ancient heirloom vegetables, by planting them in your vegetable patch!

This isn’t your typical veggie patch! Gardeners should definitely give perennial vegetables a try. Many kinds of vegetables can provide a harvest for several years.

Never a day’s rest for the gardener! Summer harvests are in, and now in Autumn plots are prepared for the planting and sowing of winter crops.

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!

For the school holidays, nothing beats introducing your children to the world of gardening. This vegetable patch calendar will make them more sensitive to the environment and to the food they eat.

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!

Chemical treatments are increasingly being banned across the planet thanks to the increased awareness of people. Growing “organic” vegetables has become mainstream, much more today than the fad it once was.

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!

In the age before industrial agriculture, there were over 1000 varieties of vegetables in people’s gardens… an incredible heirloom which has now been forgotten!

For those of you in France who want to absolutely maximize your vegetable productivity, it’s important to follow a rigorous planting calendar. For that, it’s important to realize that not all regions have the same climate and weather conditions. Indeed, the climate isn’t the same in all parts of France, and this has a direct […]

You live in an apartment, and your consumption of vegetables is minimal… what if you opted for an indoor vegetable patch? Easy and eye-catching, it is becoming a true trend.

Permaculture is the art of following biological insights gleaned from considering nature as a teacher. Key is the observation of natural exchanges occurring in ecosystems. It usually involves growing plants together on small, densely-populated surfaces. Fundamentally, it ventures much further than pure biology and encompasses all questions searching to understand the relationship between mankind and […]

More and more amateur gardeners indulge into this trendy new option: raised garden beds. Smart, convenient and cost-effective, elevated garden beds boast many advantages and

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

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!