Lettuce
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ComparisonLettuce
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
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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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