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To start your vegetable garden on the right foot
Planting a vegetable garden is a pleasure that is not only savored on the plate. Lucy Chamberlain, horticultural journalist and head gardener at East Donyland Hall Castle in Essex, manages to pass on her passion for home-grown vegetables and fruit to us. Whether you plan to plant your vegetable garden on the edge of a window, on a balcony or in the ground, in a modest or larger space, you will find all the information, in addition to the arguments, to get started. Abundantly illustrated, the book makes it possible to visualize each stage of the creation of a vegetable garden and above all puts us in awe with visuals that make us dream of summer.
The garden bed guide, step by step
Lucy Chamberlain
MultiMonde Editions
256 pages
Good tips from Marthe Laverdière
After Let’s not go crazy!, the second volume in the series “Gardening with Marthe”, the tireless horticulturist returns to us with a new part written in her Bellechasse countryside, during a break forced by the pandemic. The author cultivates the same closeness with her readers — by adopting this accessible, humorous and practical-practical tone that we know for her — while presenting her gardening tricks through a number of anecdotes drawn from her background as a horticulturist and his personal life. Let’s stick to life! is an invitation to garden with the senses. This is also the concept that structures the chapters of his book where plants and advice are grouped together for the pleasure of smell, touch, taste or sight. Always entertaining gardening.
Gardening with Marthe 3 — Let’s stick to life!
Marthe Laverdiere
Editions of Man
224 pages
All about home greenhouses
Of course, spring is the time of year when we itch to get out and dig our hands in the dirt. But to stretch the moments in the vegetable garden until the next cold weather and enjoy our plants even in winter, it is better to get ahead of the seasons! First published in 2007, this book was updated 15 years later by its author, Simon Chrétien. The agronomist and specialist in greenhouse cultivation focuses on the basic notions of sheltered horticulture and the development of reserved spaces in the house or outside. Well-developed, the book will appeal to gardening enthusiasts, who will find all the information for gardening out of season, regardless of the size of their project.
Domestic greenhouses and indoor gardens
Simon Christian
Editions de l’Homme
272 pages
The gardener’s journal
Because memory is a faculty that forgets, it is always helpful to go back to your notes from previous years before starting a new gardening season. But still it is necessary to have lent itself to the exercise at the opportune moment. It is with this in mind that the gardener’s notebook : as a tool for jotting down one’s thoughts and observations to make one’s own seasonal assessments. This guided journal, full of tips, is not in its first edition. However, it is presented in an improved version based on the comments received by the author over time. In particular, there is a weekly reminder that covers four seasons and a list of garden centers and seed companies that covers the different regions of Quebec, from south to north.
Gardener’s notebook – The four seasons of your vegetable garden
Melanie Gregoire
Quebec America
128 pages
Cultivate 365 days a year
Getting your vegetables out of the ground in all seasons: this is the idea that more and more gardening lovers and all those who are looking for solutions to rising grocery prices are cooking up. How to go about it and where to start? This is where Albert Mondor comes into play with his rich knowledge of horticulture and his ability to popularize it. Year-round vegetable garden, his most recent book, accompanies the reader in the construction of different types of shelters and offers plants adapted to the circumstances, exploring in passing hydroponic agriculture, irrigation methods and even mycology. Anyone who wants to push the gardening experience further will find their bedside book there.
Year-round vegetable garden — Growing vegetables and herbs year-round
Albert Mondor
Journal Editions
240 pages
The fruits told
We eat them, we grow them and we cook them, but do we really know them? So little, we say to ourselves when consulting this book which focuses on the origins of fruits, their history as well as the myths and symbols that accompany them. Amazing fruit stories is part of a line launched last year with vegetables and fine herbs. If we have hooked on the concept of the first, we will not be able to do without this second, which is the logical continuation. This is an unusual book offered by the horticulturist and history buff Bertrand Dumont with this umpteenth publication in 50 years of career. The author takes us there on a stroll through centuries and continents, not so much to help us improve our vegetable garden as to look at it differently.
Amazing fruit stories
Bertrand Dumont
MultiWorld Editions
300 pages