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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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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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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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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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Seasonal advice, by email
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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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MethodCabbage
Pests and diseases of the vegetable garden: recognise them and act without chemicals
19 common vegetable garden problems, with the symptom, the cause, the season and the move. Almost all can be sorted without a product.
10 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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Seasonal guideBrussels sprout
Winter vegetable garden: 15 vegetables to harvest from November to March
Fifteen vegetables that hold up outside all winter. For each, the date that sets it in place and the cold it tolerates.
7 min
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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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