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Once you have completed your online order, before paying, you will have to choose a delivery method: either mail delivery or pickup. Processing times are the same for pickup as for postal delivery. When your order is ready, you will receive an email with a link to schedule an appointment. Evening and weekend options are also available upon request.
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The information on our bags corresponds to zone 4, i.e. for Estrie, Lanaudière, Outaouais, Mauricie, Centre-du-Québec and Basses-Laurentides.
For Montreal and its suburbs, sowing can be brought forward by 2 weeks.
In the Hautes-Laurentides, Charlevoix, Lac-Saint-Jean, Abitibi, Gaspésie and the Côte-Nord, they will be delayed by 2 weeks.
To find out your hardiness zone and get personalized sowing dates for your climate:https://www.lamainverte.ca/votre-zone-de-rusticite .
Some Quebec stores carry our seeds. However, they offer their customers the cultivars of their choice. Click here to discover these stores.
Unfortunately, we cannot take orders by phone.
The best way to order remains the online store.
If you do not have internet access, you can order by mail by printing the order form, filling it out, and mailing it with a check. Here is the catalog and order form .
Please note that inventory is not updated when ordering by mail. Therefore, you must order at the beginning of the year to receive the cultivars of your choice. To simplify our work, we replace a missing cultivar with a similar one.
Unfortunately, we cannot take orders by email.
The best way to order remains the online store.
This involves sowing at least one month before the suggested date and placing the moistened tray in a plastic bag outside.
This involves placing the seeds in a damp cloth at 25°C. As soon as the germ appears, sow them in position in the garden.
Store seeds in a dry place away from light. Ideally, store them in a paper envelope or in the original bags.
Seed storage time by species
2 years: corn, onion, parsnip
3 years: pepper, leek, salsify, parsley
4 years: beans, carrots, lettuce, peas, spinach
5 years: tomato, beetroot, Swiss chard, squash, pumpkin, radish and all cabbages
6 years and older: celeriac, cucumber, melon, chicory, ground cherry and eggplant
We do not sell any hybrids. All our seeds are from open-pollinated cultivars.
The majority of our seeds are organic. They are identified on our website and are certified by Ecocert. To learn more, click here.
The production, processing, cleaning, and bagging of our local seeds are all done manually. Flower debris may remain with some species. This debris does not affect seed germination in any way. We take the presence of this debris into account when bagging, so it has no impact on the number of seeds in the bags. The quantity of seeds in each bag is linked to the difficulty of production, the quantity produced, and the germination rate.
See the link here .
No problem with freezing. Let the package thaw before opening to avoid condensation.
See the videos and texts on our blog .
Watch the explanatory video on our blog .
Insect netting is used to protect certain crops from pests. While protecting your crops, the netting allows light and water to pass through. It must be removed when the species requires pollination.
See the following text on green fertilizers on our blog .
1. Start sowing at the beginning of March like any other sowing.
2. Transplant the seedlings into pots in early April.
3. From May 10, take the pots outside to expose them to light frosts of -1°C to -2°C. If colder weather is forecast, bring the pots inside for the night.
4. Transplant into position in the garden from May 25. Harvests normally begin in July and continue until September.
For compost applications, we suggest between 0.5 and 2 cm incorporated on the surface of the beds, the application rate varying according to the requirements of the crops. Solanaceae, cucurbits and corn are the most demanding, carrots, rutabagas, onions, beets and fabaceae are the least demanding.
In the book The Ecological Garden , we can read: remember that a wheelbarrow of compost weighs more or less 40 kg and that a ton of compost is equivalent to approximately 25 wheelbarrows. - Yves Gagnon
A mix of wildflowers is an excellent choice. One thing is certain: opt for ornamental plants, ideally perennials. Periwinkle, pachysandra, or creeping thyme are also good choices.
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.
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