Comment faire un bon jardin potager ?

Un emplacement de choix Pour bichonner ses futurs légumes, il faut leur offrir un petit coin de paradis : un terrain plat au sol meuble, riche et profond, ni trop acide, ni trop calcaire, baigné par le soleil et à l’abri des vents… bref, une perle rare !

Quel légume pour carré potager ?

Semez des engrais verts (trèfle, phacélie, colza, moutarde) dans les carrés vides, entre 2 cultures. Assignez à chaque carré une catégorie de légumes : légumes-racines (radis, navet, carotte), légumes-feuilles (chou, épinard), légumes-fruits (tomate, haricot, pois), engrais vert . Et alternez-les dans les carrés.

How do you decorate a potager garden?

• Reds, oranges and yellows are easier to spot, and can therefore be placed near the back. Decorative statues are also common—and welcome—in potager gardens. Fountains, birdbaths, sculptures, and sundials are just a few options you could incorporate.

What is a potager garden and how does it work?

• The purpose of the potager garden is to eat year-round (or as close to year-round as possible) from your garden and have it be a place of beauty and enjoyment for all the senses. Think of it as an ornamental vegetable garden. Plants for this garden are chosen for productivity, and generally with the plan to eat them fresh.

What is a French potager garden?

• In France today, potager design is typically informal, or romantic. Often called the jardin de curé, or country curate’s garden, this intimate and sensual style is comparable to that of the English cottage garden, except that it is centered on vegetables rather than flowers.

How do you make a potager look like a painter?

• Play with plant heights and leaf textures to create painterly type scenes in your potager. Shrubs and permanent plants add elements of interest to the ever-changing annual vegetables. For example, culinary sage, Munstead lavender, and wormwood all have similar, silvery leaf color. Wormwood plants can get 4-5 feet tall.