Le Guide du potager bio en montagne

Is an organic, productive vegetable garden possible in the mountains, despite a short season and difficult weather? Yes, say the authors of this book, who offer a range of solutions: choosing the right exposure for the vegetable garden, creating low walls or hedges, protecting plants with frames, greenhouses or tunnels at the beginning or end of the season, adapting to the slope... They present more than 60 vegetables, herbs and small fruits, and specify the cultivation schedule to follow for each one, depending on germination temperature, seed emergence time, sowing time... giving preference, of course, to early and resistant varieties.

To do this, they draw on their experience, acquired in particular in the gardens of the Terre vivante center at an altitude of 800 meters, and on the many testimonies of amateur gardeners in the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Jura...

Rémy Bacher - Yves Perrin - Éditions Terre Vivante - 208 pages