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What to do in your vegetable garden, where you live, right now
Practical, sourced guides with the dates for your region. Pick a type of article, a crop or a month: we keep what matters.
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 read
In November, where you live
Useful articles this month
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MethodChoosing a vegetable garden app that knows your garden
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MethodImproving vegetable garden soil: compost, manure or green manure
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ComparisonWinter fleece 17 g or 30 g: which to choose and when to take it off
All our advice
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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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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 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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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 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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