November
All our advice on this topic, newest first.
The articles
15 articles-
Method
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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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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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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Seasonal advice, by email
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Growing guide
Planting a country hedge that flowers from February to November
Eleven native species and a plan for 20 metres. Plant from mid-November to the end of February.
9 min
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Biodiversity
A living vegetable garden: welcoming beneficial insects, birds and hedgehogs
A flower strip cut the damage from one pest by 61 % in a Swiss trial. The figures from the studies and ten moves ranked by effort.
9 min
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Growing guideArtichoke
Perennial fruit and vegetables: plant once, harvest for ten years
Eight perennials, the year of their first real harvest, their lifespan and the moves from one season to the next.
9 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 fact
Lasagne bed: build it in autumn and know its limits
Built in autumn with your dead leaves, it loses about half its height and will be ready in spring. The layers and the two limits to know.
7 min
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Myth or fact
Permaculture, explained simply
Neither a mound nor a recipe. A way of designing a place. Nine sites studied in 2024 stored 27 % more carbon in their soil.
8 min
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Myth or fact
Permaculture, biodynamics, the moon: which methods are proven?
Six methods ranked from the most proven to the least proven. For each, the trials and the move to keep.
7 min
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