Variétés à semer en août

Santo coriander is a variety known for its rapid growth and good tolerance to changing conditions. It produces abundant, bright green, finely cut leaves that are very aromatic from the first harvests. Its characteristic fragrance, both fresh and lemony, is appreciated in many cuisines around the world.

In the garden, Santo stands out for its vigor and its ability to quickly produce usable leaves. However, it is sensitive to prolonged heat, which encourages flowering. Grown in cool to temperate conditions, with successive sowings, it offers a regular production of tender leaves.

This variety adapts well to both open-ground and container cultivation, allowing for better management of watering and sun exposure. Harvested young and frequently, it retains a fine texture and a balanced aroma.

In the local culture, Santo coriander is seen as a plant of rhythm and opportunity. It reminds us of the importance of timing: sowing, harvesting, and starting again, following the rhythm of the season.

Garden dill is a delicate and expressive aromatic plant, recognizable by its finely cut foliage and characteristic aniseed fragrance. From its very first appearance, it brings a visual and sensory lightness to the garden, swaying gently in the breeze on its supple stems.

Cultivated since antiquity, Anethum graveolens is valued for both its leaves and seeds. In the garden, it behaves as a warm-season annual, growing quickly but relatively short. It prefers sunny locations and well-drained soil, where it can fully express its aroma.

Dill integrates easily into vegetable gardens and mixed flower beds. It grows well alongside cucumbers, lettuce, or cabbage, while attracting a variety of beneficial insects when it flowers. Its yellow umbels of blossoms add a graphic touch and support biodiversity.

Native to North America, Parris Island Cos romaine lettuce is known for its hardiness and its ability to add crispness and freshness to salads. This variety has become a staple in organic vegetable gardens thanks to its majestic appearance and dense foliage, offering excellent resilience to the vagaries of the climate.

In the garden, it stands out with its upright habit and elongated, light green leaves with pronounced veins, promising a firm texture and a mild, slightly sweet flavor. Versatile and prolific, it integrates harmoniously into a vegetable garden where it adds a touch of verticality and a constant source of flavor.

Garden rocket, also known as cultivated rocket, is a small annual native to the Mediterranean basin, now thriving in the organic vegetable gardens of our cooler climates. Its deeply lobed, deep green leaves add a touch of vibrancy to any available patch of soil, whether in a flower bed, a pot, or a planter on the balcony.

In a harmonious garden, arugula establishes itself as a discreet yet generous companion plant: it germinates quickly, covers the ground, and offers a succession of young leaves with a peppery flavor. By allowing a few plants to flower, you'll discover a white bloom with purplish veins that attracts pollinators and accompanies the cycle of the seasons, while also providing seeds for a truly sustainable approach to seed saving.

Dwarf Blue Scotch kale is a compact and hardy variety, prized for its finely curly blue-green leaves and high cold tolerance. Its low, dense growth habit forms a well-structured rosette, ideal for vegetable gardens of all sizes, including container gardening.

This variety is distinguished by the quality of its leaves, which are thick yet tender when harvested young. With the arrival of cooler temperatures, their flavor mellows and deepens, making it a particularly prized leafy green at the end of the season. Its steady growth allows for leaf-by-leaf harvesting, extending production over several months.

In the garden, Dwarf Blue Scotch adapts well to cool to temperate weather conditions. It prefers rich, well-drained soil and consistent moisture. Its hardiness makes it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking a reliable crop that is relatively unaffected by climatic variations.

Native to Europe, the Sucrine head lettuce is a prized variety for its delicately sweet taste and crisp texture. Its dense heart and thin leaves give it a mild flavor that makes it a favorite in fresh salads.

In the garden, Sucrine produces small, compact, robust, and resistant heads, perfect for early or late harvests. With its tender green foliage and compact habit, it blends harmoniously into vegetable gardens, bringing freshness and vitality.

This lettuce stands out for its ease of cultivation and its delicious contribution which delights gardeners and gourmets, embodying sweetness at the heart of the vegetable garden.

Originating in the United States, Buttercrunch Bibb lettuce is a head lettuce variety prized for its tender texture and thick, slightly crisp leaves, offering a delicate crunch. Valued for its moderate heat resistance and its ability to form a firm yet supple head, it embodies the perfect balance between sweetness and freshness, ideal for refined salads.

In the garden, Buttercrunch Bibb reveals its hardiness by adapting well to longer, warmer seasons. Its compact shape makes it a valuable ally in organic gardens, where it occupies a prominent place in crop rotations and blends harmoniously with other leafy vegetables. This lettuce is a generous companion, both productive and delicious, appealing to novice and experienced gardeners alike.

Luxury Mesclun, a blend of delicate young leaves, is a true delight for the senses. Originating from Provençal tradition, this diverse mix of lettuces, arugula, and mustards produces a medley of colors and flavors, offering a varied palette that lends itself to fresh salads and light dishes.

In the garden, this diversity of crisp and tender flavors unfolds with elegance, inviting the gardener to a continuous and generous harvest. It is a variety prized for its moderate hardiness and its ability to extend the enjoyment of the garden until the first frosts.

A partner in colorful tables and gourmet moments, luxury Mesclun is a symbol of diversity and abundance in the vegetable garden, perfectly in line with the écoumene approach.

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.

Giant Winter spinach is a hardy variety known for its high cold tolerance and ability to produce early in spring. It forms large, thick, dark green leaves with a fleshy texture and mild taste, particularly appreciated after cool periods.

Designed for late-season cultivation, this spinach slowly develops its rosette before winter, then resumes vigorous growth as soon as conditions improve. This strategy allows it to offer early harvests at a time when few other leafy vegetables are available.

In the garden, Giant Winter thrives in rich, well-drained soil that is kept consistently moist. It adapts very well to late summer or early autumn sowing, as well as to protected cultivation. Its slow but steady growth promotes thick, well-structured leaves that are less prone to bolting than summer varieties.

Lamb's lettuce, also known as corn salad or lamb's lettuce, is a small salad green native to Europe and Western Asia. It grows wild in fields and wastelands before becoming a common vegetable in gardens. The term " Green Lamb 's Lettuce" refers to varieties with compact rosettes and tender green leaves, well-suited to late summer and autumn sowing in gardens with cooler climates.

Its low-growing rosettes easily weave their way between other crops, carpeting the ground with a perennial ground cover for the cooler months. Its modest and steady growth makes it an ideal companion for kitchen gardens that prioritize continuous harvests. Mild in flavor and cold-hardy, it consistently accompanies the cycle of the seasons, offering gardeners a comforting salad green as the days grow shorter.

Oats and field peas make a very interesting combination, as they both grow very quickly and are quite cold-hardy. This mixture provides excellent ground cover, making weed growth virtually impossible. As with oats, this mixture is ideally used for a period of two months, either before or after a main crop.

• Oats and peas grow in all types of soil. Germination takes between 5 and 14 days.
• They can be sown as soon as the soil can be worked in April and until the beginning of September in soil between 1 and 24 °C.
• They are sown broadcast and the plants are turned back into the soil as green manure after 30 to 65 days.

• Compared to oats, the root mass of peas is very small, but its ability to fix nitrogen in the soil is almost double.

• This mixture is well suited to cold conditions, but will not survive the winter.

• Seeding rate: 2 kg/100 ^m² – 4 lb/1000 sq ^ft

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 Petrowski turnip is an old variety highly prized by gourmets for the exceptional tenderness and sweetness of its flesh. It is recognizable by its round root with golden-yellow skin, enclosing a fine, creamy-white to very pale yellow flesh , accompanied by a delicately fragrant aftertaste that clearly distinguishes it from other turnips.

Originating in Northern Europe and associated with Berlin, this very hardy variety has proven particularly well-suited to cooler climates. Around 1915, it was being cultivated as far away as Alaska by Russian immigrants, a testament to its robustness and early maturity. It is generally harvested between 1.5 and 2 months after sowing and expresses its best flavor when picked young.

In the garden, Petrowski grows quickly in loose, cool, and well-drained soil. Its steady and reliable growth makes it an excellent choice for northern vegetable gardens and short growing seasons.

In the local world, this turnip is seen as a plant of refined simplicity. It serves as a reminder that certain old varieties, carefully selected and harvested, offer a richness of flavor that far surpasses their apparent modesty.

Native to Asia, Tatsoi cabbage unfurls its leaves in a star-shaped rosette, a deep, glossy green, reminiscent of a delicate little bouquet. Prized for its cold hardiness and mild, slightly nutty flavor, it is perfectly suited to organic vegetable gardens in temperate climates.

In the garden, this variety stands out for its rapid growth and ease of cultivation. Its tender, crisp foliage lends itself to a multitude of culinary uses, while its hardiness makes it an excellent companion for extending the harvest season when the first frosts approach.

The Tatsoi also contributes its generosity to local biodiversity, serving as a refuge and food source for certain beneficial insects, thus naturally integrating into the cycle of the living garden.

Belonging to the large group of Asian daikon radishes , the mini daikon radish retains the slender shape of large white radishes while remaining modest in size. Its cylindrical root, generally white, forms quickly in well-loosened soil and offers a crisp flesh that integrates naturally into a harmonious garden, where sowing and harvesting follow the cycle of the seasons.

In the vegetable garden, this radish is well-suited to staggered sowings, allowing for small, regular harvests. Its presence is discreet above ground, with upright leaves typical of radishes, but beneath the fertile soil, it creates a precious, nourishing space at the heart of the garden. Cultivated with a respectful approach to soil and crop rotation, it contributes to the diversity of textures and flavors offered by a thriving garden.

Mustard's rapid growth is one of the qualities that makes it an excellent green manure, but it's not the only one! Under good conditions, mustard seedlings can reach their full height in just one month. It can therefore be used as a green manure in spring and summer.

• Its deep roots excel at loosening heavy soils and its aerial parts buried in the soil provide the latter with a first-rate supply of nitrogen.
• When buried during full flowering, its role as a nematicide should not be neglected either, especially on a plot where potatoes have been grown.
• Because it grows very quickly and is not afraid of root competition, it covers the soil immediately and protects it from erosion . For faster decomposition, it is buried when young and still tender.
• If you want to attract pollinators with its pretty, bright yellow flowers, allow more time for decomposition in the soil, as it will be less tender. However, do this before the seeds ripen if you don't want it to self-seed readily!
• It can be sown until the end of August , as it tolerates frost .
• As winter approaches, instead of burying it, leave its cut stems on the surface to provide soil life with a protective cover against erosion and cold.
• In spring, earthworms will be encouraged to come to the surface to collect them, aerating the soil in the process. Furthermore, by acting as mulch , they will reduce weed growth.
• Sowing technique : broadcast, followed by a pass with a rake to lightly bury the seeds.
• Seeding rate: 300 g/60 ^m² – 0.6 lb/600 sq ^ft
• Sowing depth : 0.5 to 1 cm.
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Native to Europe, Dragon Tongue Mustard is prized for its variegated foliage, a delicate blend of light green and purple, reminiscent of the dragon's tongue from which it takes its name. With flavors reminiscent of classic mustard, it finds its place in exceptional gardens as an elegant, tangy green salad, adding a spicy and colorful touch to spring harvests.

In the garden, its bushy, compact habit makes it easy to plant in borders or mixed with other leafy greens. Its rapid growth and moderate hardiness make it a generous companion for brightening up fresh salads. Dragon Tongue invites culinary exploration while supporting biodiversity thanks to its small yellow flowers that attract pollinating insects.

Originally from Europe, the Redina leaf lettuce has become a staple in vegetable gardens thanks to its vigor and beautiful purple color, which enhances salads. This variety of leaf lettuce is characterized by its tender, serrated leaves, whose deep red hue adds an aesthetic and flavorful touch to both the garden and the plate.

In the garden, Redina stands out for its rapid growth and slightly spreading habit, allowing it to quickly form a colorful carpet. Its relative hardiness in the face of climatic variations makes it an ideal companion for the cooler seasons of early spring or autumn. It adds diversity to a productive garden, bringing freshness and lightness to the table.

Fordhook Giant Swiss chard is a robust and tried-and-tested variety, renowned for its reliability in the garden. It is distinguished by its large, dark green, thick, and slightly crinkled leaves, borne on fleshy, well-developed white ribs. Its imposing stature gives it a striking, almost architectural presence in the vegetable garden.

Selected for its vigor and productivity, Fordhook Giant is a reliable choice for both novice and experienced gardeners. It tolerates temperature variations well and continues to produce for a long time, even when other leafy greens are showing signs of decline. Harvested leaf by leaf, it provides a continuous harvest over several months.

In the garden, it integrates well into vegetable beds as well as edging. Its dense foliage protects the soil and helps maintain moisture around the base of the plants. It appreciates rich, well-drained soil, but is tolerant of less-than-ideal conditions.

In the world, Fordhook Giant Swiss chard is seen as a plant of consistency. It accompanies the gardener throughout the season, offering a reliable and versatile harvest, and reminding us that some crops shine less for their brilliance than for their endurance.