vegetable garden articles Tag

The perpetual vegetable garden: which vegetables to plant?

"What are perennial vegetables?" Even if it may seem obvious, to create a perpetual vegetable garden, you must select perennial vegetables, meaning vegetables that remain in your garden from one year to the next. Unlike annual vegetables that need to be replanted each spring, perennial species re ...

10
May
2023

Drought: how to prepare your vegetable garden for a dry spell?

1- Don't think too big Spring will soon be here and, for many gardeners, it's time to choose what to plant and sow in the vegetable garden. While it's only natural to want to diversify your crops, the drought that has been in the news for several months in France should prompt you to be reasonable ...

01
Mar
2023

Sun in the garden: how to measure the exposure of your garden?

. When light and photons run out, plants grow slower and tend to die off. For the gardener, it is therefore very important to have sunlight in the vegetable garden so that his plants will thrive and produce well. This is the reason why vegetable plants are usually installed in a corner of the ...

27
July
2022

Garden: 5 good reasons to put flowers in your garden

1- Flowers beautify your garden The first good reason to put flowers in your vegetable garden is of course to beautify it. Simply planting a few flowers around the edges of your vegetables will improve the overall look of your garden with their beautiful colors. But the point of pairing flowe ...

29
Sep
2021

Les Potagers de Julie : Julie Andrieu goes from the kitchen to the garden

Vegetable crops in the spotlight From the kitchen to the vegetable garden there is only one step that Julie Andrieu did not hesitate to take for her new show Les Potagers de Julie. The 48-year-old host has presented for ten years Les Carnets de Julie for the delight of lovers of cooking and terr ...

22
Sep
2022

Garden: 5 good reasons to use straw.

he protects your crops from the cold." Straw is a good insulator, as evidenced by its use in the construction industry. It can therefore be used in a vegetable garden to protect crops from the cold. This is the first of 5 good reasons to use straw in your garden. If you live in an area with harsh w ...

14
June
2023

Natural Gardening: 5 simple and effective remedies for the vegetable garden.

able alternative solution against various types of insect pests. Garlic is the first of the 5 simple and effective remedies that you can use in your vegetable garden to repel strawberry flies, potato beetles, aphids, and bean mites. To prepare a natural repellent, let a crushed garlic clove soak i ...

30
June
2023

Kitchen Garden: Phenoculture or Hay Mulching in 5 Questions

aspect of this agroecological technique. What is the principle of phenoculture? Didier Helmstetter is the author of a book titled "The Lazy Gardener's Vegetable Garden." In this book, he explains that hay is the best possible natural material for mulching the soil and perfectly nourishing all the or ...

21
Dec
2023

Hobbies: why garden?

t obvious answer is probably: to be able to harvest and eat the fruits and vegetables from your garden. In these inflationary times, growing your own vegetable garden provides inexpensive and excellent quality fruits and vegetables. If you cultivate your garden without pesticides or synthetic tre ...

21
Sep
2022

DIY: 5 ideas for using pallets in the garden.

tools such as shovels, rakes, and hoes or to hang smaller accessories such as pruning shears and transplanting trowels with hooks. 2- Create a square vegetable garden. Wooden pallets are also a good material for creating a square vegetable garden, as we explained in a previous article (see link belo ...

24
May
2023

How to protect your garden from wild boars?

The wild boar, a new pest in the garden. Gardeners who own a vegetable garden are increasingly encountering wild boars in their garden or can only observe the damage after a nocturnal visit from these animals... The wild boar is now considered a nuisance in gardens and fields for two reasons: ...

27
Sep
2023

Keukenhof: A Unique Garden in the World

vents and floral exhibitions from regional producers. The Little History of the Keukenhof Garden The name Keukenhof, which means "kitchen garden" or "vegetable garden", is a reminder that this park once served as a vegetable garden for Countess Jacqueline of Bavaria in the 15th century. In 1840, th ...

08
Dec
2008

Growing cabbage: what are the different varieties?

now many species and varieties, which thrive in all temperate climates. Cabbages, which belong to the large Brassicaceae family, are a must in the vegetable garden throughout the fall and winter. The 8 main types of cabbage In the vast Brassicaceae family, there are 8 major kinds of cabbage t ...

10
Nov
2021

Maison Durable : the online store for a zero waste decoration

organized into 7 sections: - Offering - Shopping - Preserving food - Taking care of yourself - Maintaining the house - Vegetable gardening - Baby and children The first section offers reusable gift bags and boxes, gift vouchers to be used on the site, but also ...

02
Feb
2022

Cultivate your garden naturally by combining plants!

with the pests they can repel, the minerals and nutrients they bring to the soil, and their flowers, which are useful for pollination. Creating a vegetable garden by working in harmony with nature will provide you with healthy harvests of fruits and vegetables while preserving the biodiversity i ...

25
May
2022

The garden arroche: a forgotten vegetable

nown as the Good Lady of the Gardens is an annual herbaceous plant in the same family as spinach. Its botanical name is Atriplex hortensis. In the vegetable garden, it is grown for its edible leaves, which come in multiple colors: green, red, yellow, pink and even purple! Its cultivation was v ...

07
Sep
2022

Indre-et-Loire : 5 good reasons to visit the Château de la Bourdaisière

astle also offers from mid-April to the end of September a Tomato Bar, an open-air dining area where you can enjoy dishes prepared with the products of the vegetable garden. After your visit and your gourmet break, don't hesitate to visit the store! You will find all sorts of products related to ...

16
Sep
2022

Recovering rainwater in 5 questions

water you need based on your uses. Here are some annual estimates to help you define your needs: - 150 to 500 liters per year are needed to water a vegetable garden of less than 50 m2 - 500 to 1500 liters for a garden of less than 100 m2 - more than 1500 liters if you want to add other uses of t ...

23
Mar
2007

The Gardens of Marqueyssac: a unique curiosity in France

wner of this estate in 1861. Falling under the charm of Italian Renaissance gardens, he applied their principles to Marqueyssac and transformed a former vegetable garden into a pleasure terrace planted with thousands of boxwood or Buxus sempervirens. Julien de Cerval spent thirty years planting 15 ...

08
Mar
2010

The Bourdaisière Tomato Festival: the meeting place for gourmet gardeners

ome forty exhibitors who present and sell their products... around the tomato, of course! To note: the Château de la bourdaisière has a conservatory vegetable garden that was created in 1998 by Louis Albert de Broglie and now has some 650 varieties of tomatoes. An impressive collection, even th ...

24
Aug
2010