Advice Sheets - Alsagarden

Elephant garlic, a curiosity in the vegetable garden

25 October 2022 Lucas Heitz, The Curious Gardener

Do you know Elephant Garlic ? It is an original and perpetual variety which produces an enormous bulb, weighing up to 500 grams for more than 10 cm in diameter, formed of 4 to 6 large cloves. Its flavor halfway ...

Growing French Konjac in the vegetable garden

8 July 2022 Lucas Heitz, The Curious Gardener

Konjac, with the botanical name Amorphophallus konjac, is a perennial plant of the Araceae family that grows from a spherical bulb that can easily reach 3 to 4 kilos, and sometimes up to 20 kilos after several years of cultivation. ...

Spots on Raspberries : Should You Be Worried ?

28 June 2022 Lucas Heitz, The Curious Gardener

Have you noticed that some of your raspberries have white spots? There are a few possible reasons why this happens, but most likely it is White Drupelet Syndrome. What is this disorder? Should we be worried about it? How to ...

How to grow peanuts ?

23 July 2021 Lucas Heitz, The Curious Gardener

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea), sometimes also called "Earth Pistachio", or even "Earth Pea" is an annual plant of the Fabaceae family (legumes). Its culture is very surprising because its yellow flowers, once fertilized, bury themselves in the ground in order to ...