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Originating in the 1940s, the Tiny Tim tomato embodies the spirit of compact and ingenious gardening. Developed by the University of New Hampshire, this heirloom variety was designed to produce large harvests in small spaces.

Whether in the garden or in a pot, it forms a bushy clump 20 to 40 cm tall, well-branched, with dense, even foliage. Its determinate habit and rapid growth make it an ideal companion for windowsills, urban balconies, or sunny flowerbeds. Just 55 days after transplanting, it is covered in small, round, firm, glossy red tomatoes, 2 to 4 cm in diameter, like a miniature constellation among the leaves.

It is a reliable plant, particularly suitable for novices as well as experienced gardeners who are looking to integrate the tomato into a quiet corner of the garden in harmony.

This blend combines four aromatic varieties with Mediterranean and Asian origins: holy basil , Genovese , Opal purple , and Thai . Each is distinguished by its foliage, texture, and fragrance , offering a varied sensory experience, from tender green to deep purple, from aniseed to peppery notes.

Easy to grow, this annual plant forms a bushy, compact habit , ideal for container gardens, window boxes, or vegetable borders . It requires warmth, sun, and regular, but not excessive, watering. Its discreet flowers attract pollinators , prolonging the vitality of the vegetable garden while perfuming the space with its essential oils.

This blend is perfect for curious gardeners , small spaces, or those who wish to explore the aromatic world of basil in all its diversity .

Zinnia elegans ' Queeny Limes Party Mix' transforms flowerbeds into colorful scenes where every bloom makes a statement. Its unexpected hues—lime, soft pink, soft orange, and tangy yellow—create a unique palette in the garden, a blend of vibrancy and refinement. The flowers, often double and dense, reveal velvety textures that attract butterflies and curious onlookers.

The plants reach approximately 75 cm in height and thrive in well-drained soil in full sun. Hardy, undemanding, and vigorous, this zinnia offers a long flowering period that lasts until the first chill of autumn, creating a luminous link between the seasons. Its upright habit makes it ideal for lively borders, cheerful flowerbeds, or sunny containers.

De Cicco broccoli is an heirloom variety prized for its earliness and ability to produce over a long period. Unlike single-headed broccoli varieties, it initially forms a small central head, then quickly develops numerous lateral shoots, providing repeated and extended harvests.

Originally from Italy, this broccoli is distinguished by its finer florets and mild, slightly sweet flavor. Its texture is tender when harvested young, making it a popular vegetable in home cooking. Its rapid growth allows for early harvests, often as early as the beginning of summer for spring sowings.

In the garden, De Cicco adapts well to cool to temperate weather conditions. It thrives in rich, well-drained soil and prefers consistent moisture. Frequent harvesting rewards it with a continuous production of secondary shoots, extending the broccoli's presence in the vegetable garden.

Growing wild on heaths, sunny embankments, and rocky outcrops across Europe, creeping thyme ( Thymus serpyllum and related species) is a small, creeping perennial that forms dense mats. Its slender stems grow close to the ground, taking root wherever they can and gradually weaving a fragrant cushion that gently accompanies the changing seasons.

Its tiny, green to grayish-green foliage releases a thyme fragrance at the slightest touch. In the heart of summer, a myriad of small pink to mauve flowers cover the clumps, attracting a swarm of bees and other pollinators. In a thriving garden, creeping thyme provides a discreet yet essential presence: it protects the soil, tolerates drought, and naturally finds its place in a supportive vegetable garden, along pathways, or in a quiet corner left to attract bee-friendly plants.

Hardy and well-suited to poor, dry soils, it integrates easily into a respectful cultivation approach, where observation, understanding, and gentle action are taken to support the plant rather than force it. Once established, this fragrant carpet becomes a reliable plant, faithful year after year.

The 'Purple Bumble Bee' cocktail tomato is a modern variety with a strong personality, instantly recognizable by its dark purple fruit streaked with olive green, sometimes turning reddish-brown when ripe. These small, elongated to slightly oval tomatoes offer a spectacular presentation, both on the vine and on the plate.

In the garden, Purple Bumble Bee forms a vigorous and productive indeterminate plant that thrives both in the ground and in containers. Its generous bunches bear cocktail-sized fruit with firm, juicy, and well-balanced flesh, combining sweetness and a touch of acidity.

This variety is distinguished by its consistent production throughout the season and its ability to maintain good flavor even in hot weather. In the local community, Purple Bumble Bee is seen as a tomato of pleasure and discovery, inviting experimentation with shapes, colors, and uses, without ever compromising its reliability in the garden.

Native to North America, Monarda, also known as bergamot, is a plant with a bold charm that brightens gardens with its vibrant flowers. The Panorama mix brings together several brilliant hues that dance together in the summer sun.

This variety is distinguished by its bushy habit and abundant flowering, attracting a myriad of pollinators—bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects—with whom it shares its generous nectar. Ideal for mass plantings or borders, Monarda Panorama brings a wild and joyful touch that lives in harmony with the rhythms of an eco-friendly garden, inviting contemplation and respect for biodiversity.

Composed of traditional varieties from Europe , this mixed beetroot offers a true kaleidoscope of colors, textures, and flavors . Each root reveals its personality: garnet red, sunny yellow, pale pink, or even streaked with white and purple , for a vegetable garden that surprises with every harvest.

This mixture embodies the richness of life : it values ​​genetic diversity , stimulates the wonder of the gardener , and opens the doors to creative and colorful culinary experiences .

Easy to grow, mixed beetroot is robust, hardy, and productive . It thrives in light, loose, well-amended soils and adapts perfectly to most climates. It can be sown directly in the ground from spring onwards , for a gradual harvest from early summer until autumn.

Its steady growth and natural disease resistance make it an ideal crop for organic gardens . As an added bonus, its edible leaves provide extra nutrition, and its presence contributes to soil balance and local biodiversity .

The China aster , also known as the queen aster, is an upright, bushy, fast-growing annual prized for its abundant blooms and high ornamental value. Native to China, it thrives in both cultivated fields and wastelands, which explains its hardiness and adaptability.

This mixed variety offers a harmonious palette of colors, ranging from white to pink, including shades of apricot. The flowers recall the classic shape of daisies, with a yellow center surrounded by radiating florets, while also displaying a richness of texture characteristic of modern horticultural selections.

In the garden, the China aster stands out for its late flowering, which extends from mid-August until October. It thus becomes a key plant for maintaining the visual interest of the vegetable garden and flowerbeds when many summer flowers are fading. Its flowering continues until the first frosts, offering valuable continuity at the end of the season.

Native to the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia, mountain lovage, often called common lovage or mountain celeriac, is a large umbellifer that naturally finds its place in a living garden. Its glossy green, deeply cut, and fragrant foliage is reminiscent of celery, while its upright stems bear, in summer, large umbels of small greenish-yellow flowers.

Planted in welcoming, cool, and well-drained soil, this robust perennial faithfully returns year after year, offering both a welcoming presence and a generous harvest of aromatic leaves. Its tall stature structures the edges of a vegetable garden or a quiet corner of the garden, where it participates in the cycle of seasons with admirable consistency. In a deeply rooted approach to respectful cultivation, lovage is a reliable plant, discreet yet essential in the garden.

The Tuffy pepper squash is an acorn-type variety selected for kitchen gardens and small vegetable patches. It produces individual, ribbed fruits that ripen to a typical pepper squash color, ready for autumn cooking. Each plant, started in spring in suitable soil, develops long, creeping stems that provide good ground cover.

In the garden, Tuffy stands out for its good productivity and consistent fruit shape. It thrives in the summer heat and light to complete its life cycle, before offering, at the end of the season, squash perfectly suited for roasting and comfort food. In a harmonious garden, it deserves a sunny spot and should be patiently cared for throughout the seasons.

The Oka netted melon is a heritage variety deeply rooted in Quebec's agricultural history. In 1893, four Trappist monks settled in the parish of Oka, where they began the patient work of selecting and adapting crops to the local climate. It was from a cross between the famous Montreal netted melon ( Cucumis melo 'Montreal') and the old American cultivar Banana ( Cucumis melo 'Banana') that Trappist Father Athanase obtained the 'Oka' melon.

From this crossbreeding emerged an early-maturing variety, well-suited to relatively short growing seasons, which can be successfully cultivated in most regions of Quebec. The fruits are recognizable by their heavily reticulated, or netted, skin and their thick, beautiful orange flesh. When ripe, the melon releases a characteristic sweet aroma and offers a rich, balanced flavor, highly prized when eaten fresh.

In the garden, the Oka netted melon needs warmth, sun, and rich, well-drained soil. The plants are vigorous and trailing, requiring space to reach their full potential. Its earliness is a significant advantage in northern climates, allowing for a satisfactory harvest even when summers are shorter or unpredictable.

In the local community, this melon is seen as a plant of transmission and patience. It embodies the ingenuity of gardeners and seed producers who have crossbred, observed, and selected varieties capable of sustainably feeding local communities, while offering remarkable taste.

The Grandma Dinel climbing bean embodies much more than a simple vegetable variety: it is a living testament to a family legacy passed down with care and affection. Its story begins in 1907, when Maximilienne Corbeil Dinel received, as a wedding gift, a packet of beans she affectionately called "her runners." She immediately adopted them, sowing them every year in her vegetable garden in Chénéville, in the Outaouais region. Even at over 94 years old, she continued to cultivate them with the same unwavering dedication, faithful to a silent but tenacious tradition.

It was her granddaughter, Judith David, who in 2008 took up the mantle of preserving this memory by entrusting these seeds to the Jardins de l'écoumène (Gardens of the Ecumene), concerned that they would not be forgotten. Despite research carried out in collaboration with the Potagers d'antan (Vegetable Gardens of Yesteryear ), the exact origin of this variety remains a mystery. It is therefore in homage to Maximilienne that this bean now bears the name Grand-maman Dinel (Grandma Dinel ).

In the garden, this climbing or trellising variety displays delightful vigor. The stems quickly rise to form a living web, an arch of memories to climb, flowering relentlessly until the first frosts. The long, pale yellow, flattened pods spread gracefully, containing plump berries to be harvested just before they are fully ripe—a key moment to avoid a mushy texture.

This hardy and generous bean naturally finds its place in a heritage vegetable garden. It loves to climb, reaching for the light, as if to tell its story again and again, season after season.

Red Oak Leaf Lettuce, native to Europe and highly prized in organic vegetable gardens, is admired for its finely cut leaves in deep purple hues. A symbol of freshness and elegance, it displays a light silhouette in the garden that sways in the summer breeze.

In the vegetable garden, it is generous and quick-growing, offering an early harvest of tender leaves, perfect for adding a burst of color and sweetness to the plate. Its discreet yet assertive nature makes it a faithful ally for gardeners attentive to the diversity and beauty of their crops.

Originating in Italy , the Costata Romanesco zucchini is an heirloom variety with an elegantly ribbed shape that evokes rustic markets and the bountiful gardens of the Mediterranean basin. Highly prized for its tender flesh with a mild and fragrant flavor , it holds a place of honor in Italian cuisine, whether roasted, stuffed, sautéed, or eaten raw in salads .

In the garden, it stands out for its compact, bushy habit , vigorous foliage , and ease of cultivation , even in more temperate climates. Its light green skin, marbled with dark streaks, gives it not only a distinctive appearance but also makes it suitable for cooking . It produces abundantly throughout the summer , and its young fruits can be harvested early for delicate and easily digestible dishes.

Rustic, productive, and rooted in a living tradition, Costata Romanesco is a valuable ally for organic vegetable gardens . It inspires simple, fresh, and colorful cooking, while nourishing the garden and the family with elegance and generosity .

Originating in the South of France, the Round Courgette of Nice has naturally found its place in kitchen gardens, where its round, light green fruit has long been a staple in stuffed vegetable recipes. An old variety of courgette, it forms bushy plants that thrive in warm, fertile soil, helping to create a bountiful garden.

In the vegetable garden, this zucchini quickly produces a succession of round fruits, generally harvested young when their tender skin and delicate flesh are at their best. In a harmonious garden, it thrives alongside other summer vegetables and, with its foliage, helps to cover the soil and retain moisture. It is a reliable plant, productive throughout the growing season when harvested regularly.

Italian rocket Sylvetta is a small leafy vegetable, known for its high cold resistance and remarkable stability in cultivation. Unlike common rocket, it has very little tendency to bolt, making it a particularly interesting variety to grow in Quebec.

Its finely cut leaves develop a pronounced nutty flavor, more intense and deliciously peppery than that of annual rocket. This aromatic richness is fully expressed when the leaves are harvested young, between 10 and 15 cm tall.

In the garden, Sylvetta stands out for its rapid growth and great versatility. It allows for successive sowings every two weeks, ensuring a continuous harvest over a long period. Very hardy, it adapts well to outdoor cultivation in spring and autumn, as well as to container gardening. It can even be grown indoors during the winter, providing fresh greenery out of season.

The Orange Wonder snapdragon belongs to the species Antirrhinum majus , the garden snapdragon, a classic companion to natural flowerbeds. Native to the Mediterranean region, this species has been adopted in many gardens for its dense flower spikes and long flowering period. The Orange Wonder selection is distinguished by its warm orange hues, a welcome addition to any garden or ornamental space.

In the garden, snapdragons form upright clumps topped with dense flower spikes that gradually open over the weeks. Their structuring presence consistently accompanies the cycle of the seasons: first green foliage, then a long flowering period. In a harmonious garden, they find their place both in beds and borders, and can provide a source of nectar for visiting insects where the soil is welcoming and minimally disturbed.

Originating from Italian market gardening traditions, the Aunt Mary's Paste tomato has carved out a prime spot in vegetable gardens seeking rich and fragrant sauces. Its elongated fruits, typical of "paste" type tomatoes, evoke the age-old rituals of slow cooking and preserving, lined up in the pantry.

In the garden, this variety proves to be a reliable companion during sunny summers. The indeterminate plants produce an abundance of elongated fruits suitable for processing. In a vibrant and bountiful garden, it contributes to the daily pleasure of summer harvests and the beautiful consistency of the seasonal cycle.