Beans Peppers Tomatoes Herbs
Archives for April 2016
Library visit
The potage-toit (soup-roof) garden on the Royal Library of Belgium in central Brussels was established in 2012 by the Brussels organisation Le Début des Haricots ASBL (“the beginning of beans”) as an experimental and participatory roof garden open to the public. It was the first (and ongoing) experiment in using roof spaces in the city …Read More about Library visit
Starting salad in containers
Growing salad in containers is a form of gardening most people can use in the city. The “cut and come again” system of growing a mix of salad leaves and picking the leaves while immature works indoors and outside. Growing in containers also protects the crop from slugs and snails and allows for moving crops …Read More about Starting salad in containers
Hardening off 2
At this time of year the house can become rather congested with boxes of young plants waiting to go outside. Unfortunately April weather can be very un-spring like with sudden cold spells lasting days. These unseasonal cold spells are becoming more regular and a real disruption to the spring time planting schedule. In previous years …Read More about Hardening off 2
Beans progress report 4
Beans are the simplest crop to get started in the house while the weather is still too cold outside. Tomatoes and peppers are much slower and more sensitive to the cold. Beans are usually the first crop to be moved out into the garden when the weather permits. Climbing beans are the basis for vertical …Read More about Beans progress report 4
Planting list – week ending 17 April 2016
Tomatoes Cucumbers Salads