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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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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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Variety profileBean
Belgian vegetable varieties: 20 names to know, from Liège to Mechelen
Tomatoes, lettuces, leeks, celeries, broad bean and melon. Where each variety comes from and where the sources stop.
7 min
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Myth or factBean
Companion planting: which combinations work, according to the trials
Surrounded by clover, cabbages attracted only 7 % of egg-laying flies, against 36 % on bare soil. Smell has nothing to do with it. Green does.
8 min
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Myth or factBean
Lunar calendar in the garden: should you garden by the moon?
Sowing on a root day gave 20 % more carrots in one trial and the opposite in others. The seasonal window matters far more.
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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Seasonal guideBean
Vegetable garden calendar for France: sowing dates by region
Eight vegetables in four French climates. And how to place yourself if your garden falls between two.
8 min
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Seasonal guideBean
Sowing calendar for Belgium: the month-by-month table
Over 40 crops, under cover or in the ground, set to the Belgian climate. You can print the page.
9 min
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MethodBean
Open-pollinated or F1 seeds: can you sow your own seeds again?
An F1 gives a fine first harvest, then you have to buy the packet again. On the label, two words are enough to know whether you can sow again.
8 min
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