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Very sweet and crunchy peas! A healthy and quick snack

Welcome this charming biennial to your garden. The Pope's currency is a bee plant giving small purple or white flowers. Its fruits, or siliques, look like slightly silvery coins, very decorative you can use them in bouquets of dried flowers!

BOTANICAL INFORMATION
Latin name: Lunaria annua
Common name: Pope's currency, coin grass
English: Money plant, annual honesty
Family: Brassicaceae

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
Sow indoors in April or directly in the garden after the risk of frost. Or directly in the fall

Peppers are increasingly taking their place in Quebec cuisines. If our mouth ignites when tasting these, it is just as exciting to admire the many colors and shapes offered by the peppers in the garden. This mix is ​​composed of Shishito, Piri Piri, Aleppo, Penis, Jalapeno, 5Couleurs and Peach Sugar Rush peppers.* The varieties are subject to change.

MAINTENANCE AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Does not tolerate cold.

Productive bean, long flowering, yellow pods, fast, hardy, flavorful.

Purple heirloom climbing bean, tender, stringless, tribute Jean-Léo Collard

Totally Quebecois variety, new and delicious.

Straight, smooth, dark green fruits.

What is called annual lavatera or annual mallow corresponds to particularly floriferous cultivars of Malva trimestris. Originally from around the Mediterranean where it can grow naturally in the fields, Malva trimestris looks a lot like the wood mallow (Malva sylvestris) as well as the perennial shrub lavatera. It has a bushy shape and its pink flowers, with minutely ribbed silky petals, are a pleasure for the eyes.

Early Canadian tomato, productive, hardy, ideal for small spaces.

The little spicy bomb! Quick and productive!

Cornflower is an adorable, bright blue flower with great potential. It is rich in nectar, which makes it a food of choice for pollinators. And it's edible for humans too! It decorates salads and desserts nicely, and you can even extract a blue food dye from it. Cornflower also has medicinal properties. It strengthens the body and the immune system and helps the liver for better digestion. Gargled, it can help with irritated gums and ulcers. However it is for the care of the eyes that it is particularly recognized, helping to reduce irritation, fatigue and even dark circles.Cornflower cornflowers bloom from June to August and the flowers can be picked to make bouquets of cut flowers .

Tomato the size of a bonsai, with delicious fruit.

Year-round tomatoes, easy to grow in the garden or in a pot

Mini orange zucchini, highly productive, perfect with edible blossoms.

Here is the perfect tomato plant for your balcony or home. Hazelnut-sized tomatoes with delicious fruits

Long-storing tomato, firm, versatile, great for preservation.

Turn your garden into a springtime festival of colors!

Climbing bean with edible pods, flowers, attracts hummingbirds, enriches soil.

Romanian heirloom bean, semi-dry, large seeds, excellent for cassoulet.

In Quebec, several varieties from our grandmas’ gardens have disappeared or are not accessible anymore. First Nations have also grown precious varieties; some of them have stood the test of time, but most of them have also gone extinct.

This conference discusses the richness of heirloom varieties and their importance for food security through the history of a few example cases. We will go through an overview of old gardens, looking at forgotten and Quebec historical varieties.

Topics discussed: Historically used varieties within their social contect, Canadien Blanc corn history, Tante Alice cucumber history, fibre flax use and disappearance, lost broad beans from Lac St-Jean and Charlevoix, First Nations and their beans.