Weeds Archives

Garden without any garden chores: make it a reality!

Savoring the garden without spending hours mowing or weeding it is the unfulfilled Quest of all gardeners. Though we dream about it all the time, reality must be acknowledged: the perfect zero-maintenance garden doesn’t exist.

Organic gardening ABCs – got the basics? We’ve got you covered!

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.

Goosefoot, more than a weed: a leaf vegetable!

Goosefoot is a fast-spreading weed, true, but its leaves make for great greens! Goosefoot key facts: Botanical name: Chenopodium Common name: goosefoot Family: Amaranthaceae Type: leaf vegetable

Best types of fermented weed tea – find the one to suit your needs

Weed tea, prepared by simply fermenting weeds in a pail, is excellent to treat plants against diseases. Here are the different types of weed tea and their uses.

Natural and organic weeding, which of these methods work for you?

Weeding has always been the starting point of many questions. How can undesired growth be removed without polluting the Earth and our environment? Can we weed naturally and efficiently, without using noxious herbicides that would seep into our plants and our bodies?

5 weeds people hate but gardeners love

Let’s change our view on these “weeds” that, in addition to being beautiful, clearly have many benefits. Don’t get rid of them, they prove to be very useful!

Ace your eco-friendly gardening practices

Mulching, composting, natural and organic produce… Are you hoping to learn more about environment-friendly gardening? Start right this winter or during the next dry spell!

Mulch, a layer to protect and feed plants

Mulch is anything purposefully layered on soil to protect plants, nourish them, and decorate your garden.

Purslane, an uncommon green: growing from seed to harvest

Wild or cultivated purslane is a crawling plant that has leaves that are appreciated for their light lemony taste.

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

It protects the ground from weeds and enriches the soil with nitrogen and humus: green manure scores perfect on all counts!

Weeds that are full of benefits

Seems their reputation could use an upgrade! “Weeds” are most often plants that have a great many appealing benefits you can actually savor around the dinner table!

Weeds with health benefits include dandelion

Fermented tea, using weeds to make fabulous organic treatments

Fermented tea from weeds is an effective and environment-friendly resource to fight most insects, pests and plant diseases.

Wooden bucket used to prepare fermented weed tea in.

Edible plants, become a neo-hunter-gatherer!

When taking a stroll in the woods or in the fields, rediscover the joys of collecting edible wild plants!

A few edible wild plants harvested from a walk

An effortless veggie garden

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!

Dandelion, more than just a weed

Dandelion is by far the most famous weed flower in our temperate climates. It can be appreciated all season long from March to November, but, it must be said,