Want to discover the magic of plants and vegetables with your family? Or want to grow your own mini vegetable garden at home? There are many tips to discover and bring your agricultural fiber to life, but did you know that your waste can grow a vegetable garden?
Indeed, recycling your natural waste can be an excellent fun alternative to germinating seedlings of your favorite vegetables.
How to do it?
Here is a non-exhaustive list of different vegetables that can be planted in your planters.
- Leek: Take your leftover leeks and use the roots. Dip them in water and wait to see how they develop, making sure to change the water once a week. Once the seedling has come out, put it underground.
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Carrot: Keep the top of your carrot (the top) and immerse it in a shallow container with water. Then transplant it into the soil when the roots start to appear.
- Potatoes: First leave them in the open air until they germinate. Then you have to cut them in half and bury them with a lot of soil with the buds pointing upwards. You have to water them frequently to keep the soil moist. With a bit of luck they might even come out of the ground with a funny shape.
Example of a potato found at the Suzanne urban farm, the day after Valentine's Day
- Tomatoes: To make a tomato seedling, it is quite easy. Its seeds are easy to maintain and grow easily. Tomatoes are often used without using its seeds so take one and bury the seeds. You must keep the soil moist until the seedling appears.
- Lettuce: After taking all the leaves, cut the foot to about 3 cm. Then, place it in a bowl with water in a sunny place. After a few days, you will notice a new root. You can plant it underground.
Of course, these tips don't just exist for vegetables; you can also do the same thing with your different herbs, such as garlic, ginger or basil.
For the bravest among you, it is also possible to regrow a pineapple and if all the conditions are met, a beautiful pineapple plant can spring up from your garden.
Discover & learn at the Suzanne Urban Farm
To combine business with pleasure, it is also possible to discover urban agriculture in the heart of Paris!
Cultures in the City has created since 2020 an urban farm on the roofs of the 15th arrondissement with the Suzanne Urban Farm in the Suzanne Lenglen park. Our team opens the farm doors every weekend for workshops and tours available on the site of wecandoo . Including a zero waste workshop to discover the good tips to apply in your kitchen to fill your own circular economy.
Example of a workshop at the Suzanne urban farm, in the sun and warmth of the tiny house
The circular economy
This reuse of waste perfectly meets the principles of the circular economy by limiting the waste of resources, the spread of waste while creating new things. This therefore allows us to visualize and think about new modes of consumption that are more respectful of the planet.
More generally, the circular economy is being highlighted in the face of the challenges of current consumption systems. La Jardinière Française has therefore chosen a complete and total application of this circular economy to the production and maintenance of our planters and other products.
A few months ago, we returned in a blog article to our flagship product, Planters from A to Z with explanations of how our wood workshop works, from design to delivery of the product.
Indeed, our team acts at different levels to ensure a circular economy model. First of all by working with wood from forests within a 250km perimeter around the workshop. This wood comes from French forests managed sustainably according to a forest management program.
In addition, we equip our planters with technology resulting from a public research program of our historical partners, Inrae And AgroParisTech . The T4P substrate is the perfect growing medium to create a viable environment suitable for the development of life.
The French gardener accompanies you
If you have the desire to build your own vegetable garden and get your hands dirty to produce your vegetables, as an individual or even for a company garden, La Jardinière Française is here to help.