- Marveling at plants growing, eating your own produce, it's possible, even in the city and confined.
- Thanks to the advice of Pascal Laforge, garden coach, you can learn to sow your seeds and take care of your tomato and basil plants.
- And hope to taste, in a few months, a house salad made on your balcony or windows.
See a bit of green in an ocean of concrete. Taste (in a few months) a salad made by him and those of Mother Nature. After a few days, discovering seedlings that are growing, flowers that are hatching… This is what makes a number of us dream, confined to the city in times of coronavirus.
Good news, it is possible to make a micro-vegetable garden, even in town, with little. Since early April, garden centers and nurseries have been able to reopen, because the vegetable garden is recognized as a basic necessity. The opportunity to embark on a delicious challenge: make a homemade tomato-basil salad.
Tips from a gardener coach
To guide us, Pascal Laforge, garden coach at Truffaut, gives his advice. On video, but also in person. “Today, the vegetable patch is no longer a privilege for those who own a garden, 100% of people can start it! ", He assures. So we can get soil, seeds, pots, and let's go:
For tomatoes, the specialist advises in particular to plant at an angle. "With an angle of 45 degrees. The bottom of the stem will be covered with soil, your plant will be much more rooted, therefore stronger. "Second tip to have beautiful tomatoes: mulch the soil," to reduce the evaporation of water and the proliferation of weeds. For the tomato, you can choose slate straw. Because the stone captures the heat and returns it, and the slate even more because it is black. "
And how do you know if you are watering enough? It depends on the weather, the earth, the temperature ... Pascal Laforge simply advises putting his finger in the earth: if it is wet, everything is fine, if not, add water. The tomato plant, "you have to water it all the more since it is in the sun and it is in a container that is not soil," he continues. Once the fruits are green, then we reduce watering. "
As for the basil plant, it needs less sun and water. And we must regularly cut the flowers that will bud, so that the leaves do not lose strength.
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