Tag: vegetable garden
Chickpeas: what are they?
Despite the simplicity of growing this annual vegetable, chickpea is quite rarely grown in vegetable gardens. Like peas or lentils, chickpeas are eaten dry. Chickpea season the Chickpea (Cicer arietinum)…
Maceration: what is it?
Very close to the preparation of liquid manure, the maceration requires less manufacturing time. How? ‘Or’ What, from plantsmanufacture natural extracts not to use pesticides. Get into the habit of…
When and how to sow spring lettuces?
Lettuces offer beautiful heads more or less tight with green leaves or tinged with red. Tender and crunchy, spring lettuces are resistant to freezing temperatures and cold. You will also…
When and how to sow broad beans?
Beans (Vicia faba) are easy-to-grow vegetables that are highly valued for their light nutty flavor. With pods of various colors and sizes, choose a variety adapted to your region and…
Early vegetables: when should they be sown?
To taste the first young vegetables from April, start sowing resistant varieties with a short cycle from mid-January. Sheltered and warm, grow carrots, turnips, radishes, peas and many other crisp…
Peas, when and how to sow them?
Crunchy, sweet and harbingers of spring, peas are very popular vegetables on our plates. Simple to grow, start sowing in February to harvest the first peas from June. You will…
When and how to plant the gray shallot?
Shallots are, along with onions, the most widely grown condiment in vegetable gardens. Enjoy the intense, more marked flavor of the small-sized gray shallot, unlike the softer and larger pink…
True / False: can all vegetables be stored in winter?
Some vegetables can be stored during the cold season, either directly in the garden or in a cellar. Several techniques allow this operation to be carried out with a minimum,…
Pumpkin: what is it?
Often confused with the pumpkin, the pumpkin is bulkier and more rounded. Once the foot of squash installed in the vegetable garden, its running stems take up space. Vegetablefall andwinter…