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Camille Lajoie

Living soil: the secret to vigorous growth.

Did you know that the key to healthy vegetables and bountiful harvests lies beneath your feet? Living soil, teeming with life, is essential to nourishing, protecting, and strengthening your crops. With living soil, it’s easy to recreate these natural conditions, giving your plants everything they need to thrive, from germination to harvest.

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Finding the perfect gift for a gardening enthusiast or nature lover

The festivities are approaching and it's time to think about gifts that will please your loved ones who are passionate about gardening and nature. Whether you are looking for a gift for a special occasion or for festive moments, you will find here ideas that combine practicality, respect for the environment and love of nature.

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Growing Vegetables Indoors: Tips for Gardening in Any Season

When temperatures drop, there's nothing like continuing your gardening indoors to keep a patch of greenery. Growing vegetables indoors is both possible and fun. While you're not looking to get super-yields, these small crops are perfect for adding freshness to your dishes while enjoying the pleasure of gardening!

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Guylaine's Homemade Mexican Salsa

When the season is in full swing, Guylaine likes to transform the vegetables from her garden into a homemade salsa full of character. It's a recipe that she personalizes as the harvest progresses, with her favorite ingredients of the moment.

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The Bold Challenge of Fall Sowing for an Exquisite Spring Harvest

Dear passionate and daring gardeners, are you ready to revolutionize your approach to gardening and take on an innovative challenge? Imagine harvesting delicious vegetables from the first days of spring, without waiting for the traditional sowing of the summer season.

Welcome to the captivating world of fall sowing, a technique that shakes up habits and promises early and tasty harvests in our cold Quebec climates.

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Jean-François Lévèque

Water, source of life: The Impact of humidity on your crops

In the heart of the GardensÉcoumène, organic gardening comes to life: understanding and managing humidity proves essential for plant health and growth. Water, much more than a simple resource, represents the very essence of our garden.

Controlling its flow and availability is crucial to encourage vibrant flowering and guarantee generous harvests. By adopting respectful practices, we cultivate a harmonious relationship with water, which nourishes our plants while enriching our land and our soul.

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Jean-François Lévèque

Revolutionize your gardening in depth with living soil

Edaphon, much more than just a soil component, is a crucial element for any gardener. This living network, invisible to the naked eye, works silently to nourish and protect your plants.
Discover with us how this universe beneath your feet can radically transform your approach to gardening.

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Edaphon: the unsung heroes of germination

Discover the secret world beneath your feet! Often overlooked, edaphon, this vibrant collection of living organisms in the soil, is the pillar of plant health and the success of your seedlings. In this article, we invite you to explore how these tiny beings can greatly influence the growth of your plants, from the comfort of your home.

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Online training for urban farmers

The online training of Urban Cultists provides 15 years of knowledge and experience in urban agriculture, brought together in a simple and practical formula to make gardening accessible. Through the five training modules, learn the art of urban vegetable gardening at your own pace!

Also discover the new add-on on growing mushrooms outdoors.

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Growing mushrooms (outdoors)

Something new for Urban Cultists!

Learn how to grow mushrooms at home, whether in the garden or in small spaces such as on balconies with the new online training module offered by Les Urbainculteurs in collaboration with their guest specialist La Botte Champignonnière. Simple videos to follow step by step, annotated and supplemented with downloadable PDFs.

Training accessible for life!

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The different stages of outdoor sowing

If you're new to gardening, sowing outdoors can seem a little intimidating. In fact, it's an easy and affordable way to start your garden and grow fresh, tasty vegetables yourself. With a little planning and patience, you can successfully plant your outdoor seeds. In this article, we will guide you through the basic steps to help you succeed in your outdoor sowing and have success in your gardening.

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Frass: a product with many qualities

Fertilizer, amendment, biostimulant, frass is a truly versatile product. 100% natural and organic, Ecocert approved, frass is ecological, sustainable, eco-responsible and participates in the circular economy. By processing food residues, black soldier fly larvae transform this residual material into a living and efficient product which is returned to the ground in order to provide or maintain life. Combined with biochar, it is a winning formula for stimulating the growth and vigor of plants, and more remarkably, for regenerating soil.

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It's spring, it's planting time!

In the relatively short summer conditions that prevail in Quebec, several species of vegetable or flower plants must be sown indoors as early as March or April. These plants will thus be able to produce mature flowers or fruits before the onset of cold weather in autumn.

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Lighting: whether for seedlings, microgreens or indoor gardens

As you can imagine, when you want to sow seeds at home or create an indoor garden, lighting is undoubtedly the most important element to consider for success. With the advent of LED diodes, the number of horticultural lamps on the market has increased enormously and it has become difficult to navigate. Together, let's try to shed some light on the subject (without making a bad pun).

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Seeds adapted to the local climate are much better

The arguments in favor of local purchasing are well established: solidarity with local commerce, reduction of GHG emissions, products better adapted to local realities, etc. However, when it comes to seeds, buying local presents, for gardeners, advantages on the physiological and environmental levels, in terms of adaptation to the climate, and therefore more abundant harvests.

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Store your seeds properly

Seeds from Jardins de l'écoumène have a very high germination rate in the year of purchase. Depending on the species, this germination rate decreases more or less quickly over the years: some seeds still germinate reasonably well after five or ten years, but others no longer germinate after only two years.

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Fresh microgreens on potting soil

Microgreens are plant seeds that are germinated on potting soil while sprouts are seeds that are germinated in pots without substrate. Microgreens require less maintenance than sprouts which must be rinsed twice a day, sometimes more in some cases.

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