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During the long winter months, it's the perfect time to plan your vegetable garden. You need to organize crop rotations in the garden so that the soil maintains its mineral balance and pest and disease problems are very rare. The organization of these crop successions is based on very simple rules: crop rotation and companion planting. Here's what they involve.

It has been more than 40 years since I became interested in food, especially in the health problems caused by industrial food. Unfortunately, I have to make the sad observation that, despite the amount of information circulating on the subject, unhealthy and tampered food remains the basis of the diet of a very large majority of Westerners.

"The history of the cosmos is the history of matter awakening. The universe is born in the greatest destitution. Initially, only a collection of simple, structureless particles exists. Like balls on a green billiard table

Rarely seen in Quebec gardens, the artichoke nonetheless deserves a prominent place there, as it possesses multiple nutritional and therapeutic properties and is among the most beautiful plants that can be grown in our latitudes. It first displays long, heavily serrated grayish-green leaves from which branched stems emerge, forming purplish flower heads that, once open, produce magnificent mauve inflorescences.

This season, let exceptional seeds inspire you!

Between plants with medicinal virtues, dazzling ornamental flowers, fragrant aromatic herbs and tasty vegetables, our essential cultivars combine beauty, productivity and authenticity.

Discover the latest trends and find those that will enrich your garden this year!

I am often asked how to harvest melons at their peak ripeness. Complex question and difficult answer to give. But I'm trying anyway.

Are you wondering if your seeds will still germinate this year?

Before ordering seeds for your next garden, it would be useful to check by a test if your seeds still have a good germination rate.

To begin with, It is important to know that seed conservation is linked to their age as well as to the conditions in which you have them preserved.

In organic farming and gardening, due to the increasing number of pests interfering with crops, the use of insect netting has become essential. They act as physical barriers and, when properly installed, protect vegetables with 100% effectiveness. I prefer them to organic insecticides, which, in many cases, do not provide the desired results and are a nuisance to predatory species and pollinators.

It's amazing how much I could write about our planet on this Earth Day. I could cover biodiversity, climate change, plastic pollution, social injustice, and environmental responsibility, but instead I chose to write about a...

The early spring we are experiencing allows for the early establishment of spring green manures to occupy and enrich the soil before the first crops are established. And despite what one might think, it is not recommended to advance the sowing and transplanting of tropical species, because a late frost can always occur.

Headed cabbage ( Brassica oleracea var. capitata ) represents a food of choice for northern populations, because the species appreciates cool and humid conditions. It was also one of the vegetables that responded best to the rainy conditions of summer 2023. Harvested at the end of October, Headed cabbage can be easily stored in a cold room until May.

We have already reached the time of the first sowings. And it's the onions that I start first. This year, it will be on February 21st that I will sow my seeds by broadcasting them, in 10 non-compartmentalized boxes. Saint-Didace red onion.