Saving heirloom vegetables… right in your own garden!
Join in on the fight to secure ancient heirloom vegetables: plant them in your vegetable patch!
Broad bean
Broad bean is a type of bean that is very healthy. The large size of its beans make it easy to cook and eat.
Stock the pantry with winter vegetables
In the vegetable patch, summer is the season for harvests, but sowing still continues for lettuce, cabbage and other vegetables for winter.
Bean blight, 7 diseases that cause spots and wilting on beans
Beans are a favorite in the veggie patch, and not only for us! Many types of bean blight exist, caused by fungus, viruses, mites and bacteria. They infect bean plants and trigger brown or yellow spots,wilt, and other issues on bean leaves, bean pods and vines. Here are the main culprits responsible for bean blight.
Rotate crops in the vegetable patch
Crop rotation helps generate abundant harvests. It’s also very effective at reducing crop diseases and maximizing nutrient availability for plants.
25 Vegetables that resist drought and dry spells
“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…
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!
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.
The legume family, perfect for the garden and the dinner table, too!
Beans, peas, lentils, soybeans… the legume family all share flowers shaped like butterfly wings, roots that lock nitrogen into the soil, and seeds that have high levels of protein. To sum it up, it just what any garden needs!
How to grow beans in 3 minutes
Beans are delicious when freshly harvested from the garden, and with this snappy happy video you’ll have your beans growing in no time! Works for all kinds of pole beans (broad bean, snap bean…) Read more ►
Broad bean health benefits and therapeutic value
Broad beans (Vicia faba) are the seed of an annual plant that is part of the Fabaceae family.
Broad beans, easy and quick to grow
Broad beans are a type of bean and part of the legume family. They’re easy and quick to
Septoria host plants – targets of this ravaging leaf spot disease
Septoria has often caused many a gardener to wail in desperation. What plants does it affect? Which host is it hiding on over winter?
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!
