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What to do in your vegetable garden, where you live, right now
Practical, sourced guides with the dates for your region. Pick a type of article, a crop or a month: we keep what matters.
Identifying a sick plant with your phone
A model that was 99 % right on its own images dropped to 31 % on photos taken elsewhere. With the right photos, an app answers better.
7 min read
In November, where you live
Useful articles this month
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MethodChoosing a vegetable garden app that knows your garden
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MethodImproving vegetable garden soil: compost, manure or green manure
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ComparisonWinter fleece 17 g or 30 g: which to choose and when to take it off
All our advice
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Choosing a vegetable garden app that knows your garden
Climate, soil, variety, stage and weather. An app must know these five things and use them. A five-minute test checks it.
6 min
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Quick tip
The 6 tools that are really useful in the vegetable garden
Each tool linked to the move it serves, with prices recorded online in Belgium and France. And the purchases that can wait.
5 min
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Growing guideBasil
Container vegetable garden: what depth and what soil mix
In the ground, a lettuce's roots go down more than a metre. In a container, 20 cm is enough, with the right soil mix.
8 min
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Seasonal guideBroad bean
What to do in the vegetable garden in December?
Leeks, Brussels sprouts, curly kale and parsnips wait in the bed. For the rest of the month, look at your climate.
8 min
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Growing guideBean
Starting a vegetable garden: your first 10 m² bed
Two beds and eight easy crops to harvest from May to October without losing your way. With the plan, the dates and the real budget.
9 min
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Seasonal advice, by email
The right step at the right time, for your region. No ads, and you can unsubscribe in one click.
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MethodGreen manure
Improving vegetable garden soil: compost, manure or green manure
A bucket of well-rotted compost or manure per square metre, at the right time. And a soil test first, to know whether you really need it.
9 min
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ComparisonBroad bean
Winter fleece 17 g or 30 g: which to choose and when to take it off
Thin fleece keeps 85 % of the light and gains up to 2 °C. Thick fleece gains 2 to 4 °C. The heaviest only let through 30 to 50 % of the light.
8 min
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Quick tipBean
Do your old seeds still come up? The 10-day test
Onion keeps one to two years, tomato three to seven. For lettuce, the tables run from 1 to 6 years. Ten seeds on a paper towel settle it.
7 min
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IdeaEndive
Forcing Belgian endive (chicons) at home, from November to January
Five roots, an upturned bucket, 10 to 15 °C and complete darkness. Four weeks later, you cut chicons of 15 cm.
7 min
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MethodBrussels sprout
Frost in the vegetable garden: the temperature each vegetable can stand
Tomato suffers from 0 °C. Winter lettuce holds down to -9 °C, leek down to -15 °C. A fleece or a mulch gains a few degrees.
8 min
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MethodAubergine
Sowing successfully at home: heat, light and potting mix
A tomato comes up at 20 °C. Then it wants light, a lot, and a February window gives too little. Sow later or add a lamp.
9 min
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