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Probably originating from southern Europe , this mixed kohlrabi brings together up to five varieties in a range of hues , from tender green to deep purple , creating a vegetable garden that is as colorful as it is bountiful . Its swollen part, emerging from the stem, forms a fleshy head that sits just above the ground, while its vigorous foliage can also be harvested.

A hardy, quick-maturing biennial plant, kohlrabi adapts well to short growing seasons . Its compact shape , early growth , and discreet flowering make it an ideal crop from spring to autumn , particularly in communal and shared gardens .

At Jardins de l'écoumène , this blend is carefully produced despite the challenges of seed production in cold climates. Each seed is the fruit of patience nurtured by a passion for life.

Native to India, Holy Basil, also known as Tulsi, is a herb revered for its spiritual and medicinal properties. Used for millennia in Hindu rituals, it is both a symbol of protection and a medicinal plant.

In the garden, it proves robust and fragrant, with irresistible foliage that fills the air with powerful and complex aromas. Its compact habit makes it an ideal companion plant, encouraging biodiversity by attracting numerous beneficial insects.

Bearing a rich history and nourishing both body and mind, the Holy Basil fits perfectly into a nourishing garden where it invites observation and respect for natural cycles.

The 'Envy' edamame soybean is a short-season variety that has found its place in northern gardens, where warmth is precious and every week of growth counts. Developed by Professor Elwyn M. Meader of the University of New Hampshire, this variety was designed to offer a reliable and flavorful harvest in climatic conditions similar to those of Quebec.

In the garden, 'Envy' forms compact plants about 60 cm tall , well-branched and easy to incorporate into a diverse vegetable garden. Its glossy green pods , slightly downy with a fine buff fuzz, develop early in the season and promise a bountiful harvest. The beans are harvested while still tender, when their texture is firm and their sweet, vegetal flavor is at its peak.

In the local area, this soybean variety proves particularly interesting for gardeners curious to explore new food legumes without excessive complexity. It thrives both in open ground and in well-drained beds, contributing to the diversification of food crops while enriching the soil thanks to its natural nitrogen-fixing capacity.

Native to Europe, oak leaf lettuce is distinguished by its finely cut, soft leaves reminiscent of oak leaves, hence its evocative name. Prized for its tender texture and mild flavor, it naturally finds its place in modern vegetable gardens, offering a quick and renewable harvest.

In the garden, it proves generous and easy to grow, with a spreading habit and fairly rapid growth. Its fine foliage is an invitation to refresh salads throughout the summer season. A valued companion plant, it integrates harmoniously into diverse plantings.

The Doe Hill pepper is an old North American variety originating from the Doe Hill region of Virginia. Selected for its hardiness and ability to ripen even in climates with short summers, it has become the ideal pepper for beginner gardeners . Unlike many other varieties, it requires no pruning, making it a reassuring and easy-to-grow companion.

In the garden, its compact plants (approximately 50 cm tall) quickly become covered in small, round, lobed fruits that ripen from tender green to a bright golden yellow. Productive, reliable, and undemanding, Doe Hill integrates easily into a vegetable garden or container garden. With its easy-to-rooted and simple growth habit, it follows the garden's rhythm smoothly, offering generous harvests throughout the growing season.

The Murasaki pepper is an old Japanese variety from Nara Prefecture, renowned for its visual elegance and mild flavor. Its conical shape is reminiscent of a small chili pepper, but here, there's no fire: its tender, sweet flesh dispels any preconceived notions.

This annual plant (perennial in frost-free climates) has a compact habit, adorned with deep purple, almost black, fruit that contrasts beautifully with its purplish-tinged foliage. Its flowers, also tinged with mauve, add to its unique charm, making this pepper a true ornamental plant as well as a productive one.

In the garden, it thrives in full sun and warm, well-drained, fertile soil. It gracefully integrates into a diverse, nourishing space that is both aesthetically pleasing and bountiful. Highly productive, it will be a constant companion to the gardener until the first chills of autumn.

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.

Originating in temperate regions, the 'Reine des Glaces' head lettuce is distinguished by its vibrant freshness and mild flavor. Following the tradition of lettuce-based varieties, it embodies an admirable balance between crisp texture and delicate taste, making it ideal for organic gardens and diverse vegetable patches.

In the garden, it stands out for its relative heat resistance and rapid growth, producing tightly packed, bright, almost translucent heads. It integrates perfectly into a leafy vegetable arrangement, bringing vitality and freshness to summer and autumn harvests.

Native to the Americas, the Delicata squash is as charming for its elegant appearance as for its sweet and comforting flavor . Its thin skin, striped with cream and olive green , reveals a golden-yellow flesh with a subtle nutty taste . Prized in traditional vegetable gardens for its earliness and unique aromatic profile , it is now making a strong comeback in kitchen gardens seeking hardy and compact varieties.

In the garden, Delicata has a compact, creeping habit , perfect for ground cover or as part of a companion planting scheme. Its rapid growth and short growing cycle allow for harvests from late summer until the first frosts. It adapts well to temperate climates and is easy to grow even in small spaces. Its dense foliage suppresses weeds, and its abundant flowering attracts bees and other pollinators.

Native to the prairies of North America, Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) has become a staple of vibrant gardens. Its large purple corolla and elongated rays evoke the softness of a setting sunbeam, while its bright orange cone-shaped center attracts attention and life.

In the garden, this perennial acts as a sentinel, attracting a myriad of pollinators, including bees and butterflies, which find refuge and nectar on its abundant flowers. Resolutely robust and prolific, it integrates naturally into flowerbeds and wildflower meadows, providing stability and beauty well into autumn.

Originally from Asia, the lemon cucumber is striking for its round shape and sunny yellow hue , reminiscent of a vibrant fruit fallen from the sky. Less common than its elongated green cousins, it is prized for its sweet and refreshing flavor , without the bitterness found in many classic cucumbers.

In the garden, it truly shines when grown vertically: its vigorous climbing habit benefits from being trained on a trellis, which showcases its round, bright, and easy-to-pick fruit. A generous, playful, and nutritious variety, it finds its place in diverse vegetable gardens, attracting attention and sparking curiosity both on the plate and on the vine .

The Bull's Blood beetroot is a heritage variety prized as much for its root as for its remarkable foliage. Its deep purple-red, almost burgundy, leaves bring a strong ornamental dimension to the vegetable garden, contrasting beautifully with the more classic greens of neighboring crops.

Cultivated since the 19th century, this beetroot is distinguished by its versatility. When young, its foliage is harvested as tender, sweet, and colorful greens. Later in the season, it develops round roots with dark red, sweet, and earthy flesh, enjoyed raw, roasted, or pickled. This dual purpose makes it both a nutritious and ornamental plant.

In the garden, Bull's Blood establishes easily in cool, well-worked soil. It tolerates the cooler temperatures of spring and autumn well, allowing for staggered sowing times.

In the ecumene, the Bull's Blood beetroot is valued as a plant that bridges aesthetics and food. It reminds us that some varieties nourish the eye as much as the table, while naturally fitting into a nutritious garden approach.

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.

Originating in European family gardens, the Maxibel dwarf bean is a reliable variety, prized for its earliness, productivity, and ease of care. Its compact size allows for easy integration into small spaces or closely spaced beds, while also facilitating harvesting.

In the garden, Maxibel impresses with its bushy habit, dense foliage, and flowering stems that attract pollinators. It quickly produces long, slender, upright, stringless pods of about 16 cm, a glossy dark green. This vigorous variety is disease-resistant and offers a prolonged harvest when picked regularly. It fits easily into an ecological and nourishing garden approach, where each plant contributes to abundance while promoting soil life through nitrogen fixation.

Native to North America, the Rattlesnake climbing bean has earned a prominent place in vegetable gardens for its long, green pods streaked with purple. In a thriving garden, it quickly grows tall, twining steadily around its supports to form a nourishing curtain that peacefully accompanies the cycle of the seasons.

Its beautifully mottled, drooping pods immediately stand out in the privacy of the vegetable garden. Harvested young like string beans, they offer a generous contribution to the kitchen; left to mature, they yield flavorful dried beans. This is a reliable, productive, and adaptable variety that integrates naturally into a diverse growing environment, where each plant participates in a harmonious relationship with the soil, wildlife, and the gardener.

Native to Europe, the 'Grosse Blonde Paresseuse' head lettuce boasts a generous shape, a dense head with a delicate blonde hue. This heirloom variety is prized for its mildness and melting texture, offering gardeners a refreshing and welcome taste.

In the garden, it stands out with its graceful, graceful form and thick, fleshy leaves that overlap in tranquil harmony. More sensitive to heat than other lettuces, it encourages cultivation in cooler conditions, enlivening vegetable gardens with a tender green that soothes and nourishes the hearts of those who pick it.

This lettuce embodies opulence and patience in rhythm with the plant cycle, sparkling in raw salad or delicately mixed as a garnish, faithful in the garden where it participates in local biodiversity.

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.

Native to the Mediterranean basin, the common pot marigold ( Calendula officinalis ) has long been a staple of traditional vegetable and medicinal garden practices. Its single or semi-double flowers, ranging from yellow to bright orange, dot the welcoming soil with small touches of sunshine that follow the cycle of the seasons, from late spring until the first frosts.

In a harmonious garden, it gently self-seeds where the soil suits it, forming bushy clumps with tender green foliage that is slightly sticky to the touch. A benevolent presence, it attracts a host of pollinators and beneficial insects, offering nectar, shelter, and resources for the small fauna of the thriving garden.

A reliable and easy-to-grow plant, the pot marigold naturally finds its place in vegetable garden borders, edible flower beds, or the quiet corner of a herb garden. Ornamental, edible, and medicinal, this generous companion connects the gardener to a long tradition of respectful cultivation and a relationship with living things.

Originating in Romania, the Antohi Romania pepper is an old, sweet variety that has traveled from the peasant gardens of Eastern Europe to North American vegetable gardens. Its conical fruits, initially pale yellow and then red when ripe, bring a bright touch to the intimacy of the kitchen garden.

In the garden, it's a reliable plant: modest in stature and well-branched, it offers consistent production throughout the summer, even in climates with shorter warm seasons. In welcoming, well-warmed soil, it quickly forms a small, fertile clump from which hang its smooth, lantern-like fruits. Its presence naturally complements a respectful approach to cultivation, in harmony with the rhythm of the seasons.

Originally from Sicily , the Rosso Sicilian is an old determinate tomato, carefully passed down by a Sicilian immigrant in 1987. This hardy variety has adapted well to Quebec gardens , where it appreciates rich, well-drained, and warm soils .

Its deep red, heavy, and heavily ribbed fruits resemble open flowers: spectacularly shaped tomatoes weighing up to 330 g . Their compact growth habit makes them ideal for planting in close rows, with light staking to support the weight of the clusters. In a thriving, nutrient-rich environment , this tomato becomes a reliable ally throughout the summer , with a harvest spread over 70 to 90 days . Its floral structure and moderate vigor make it a dependable plant in a vegetable garden that thrives during the warmer seasons.