What to do in your vegetable garden, where you live, right now

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.

8 min

Variety profileCourgette

Ronde de Nice courgette: pick it at 8 cm and stuff it

At the size of a big tennis ball, it can be stuffed whole. Pick it every two or three days and the plant gives until the end of summer.

7 min

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.

7 min

Growing guidePotato

When to plant potatoes, earth them up and harvest them

A soil at 8 °C gives the start. After that, the plant tells you when to earth up and when to harvest.

8 min

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

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

Growing guideBasil

A balcony vegetable garden in Belgium, month by month

Pot size, watering and sowing dates, from January to December, for your vegetables in pots on a Belgian balcony.

9 min

ComparisonGreen manure

Green manures in the vegetable garden: which to sow in Belgium and when to cut them

Choose the species by the date your bed is freed. Cut it before the seeds, then wait 2 to 6 weeks before replanting.

8 min

MethodTomato

Saving tomato seeds by fermentation, step by step

A fully ripe fruit, a glass of water and a few days. That is enough to keep your tomato seeds from one year to the next.

7 min

MethodTomato

Tomato blight: how to spot it and act before the first spot

Two days at 10 °C minimum and at least six hours of humidity a day open the blight window. Learn to read it so you can act before the first spot.

9 min

MethodBean

Open-pollinated or F1 seeds: can you sow your own seeds again?

An F1 gives a fine first harvest, then you have to buy the packet again. On the label, two words are enough to know whether you can sow again.

8 min

🌱 La rotation des cultures : un secret de jardinier pour un potager sain et productif

La rotation des cultures permet d’optimiser la santé du sol, de limiter les maladies et d’améliorer les récoltes en alternant les familles de légum...

2 min