Tomato
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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ComparisonCherry tomato
Yellow tomatoes: 6 varieties compared, from taste to blight tolerance
The ones that hold up outside in the rain are small. Six varieties compared with the German trials and the RHS awards.
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Variety profileTomato
Rose de Berne tomato, the 1946 Swiss variety to grow outside
A round tomato with a thin skin, bred in 1946 near Bern. In a wet summer, it ripens outside with shelter and regular watering.
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Growing guideCherry tomato
Growing tomatoes, from the March sowing to the last fruit in October
Six steps, from the seed sown in the warm in March to the last green fruit brought in during October. With the dates for your region.
8 min
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