Climate
Hardiness Zone: What It Indicates for the Vegetable Garden
Understand USDA zones, their difference from climate, and the limits of this benchmark for selecting plants and deciding when to sow or plant.
Climate
Adapt the vegetable garden to your climate.
Understand climate trends, then observe frost, rain, wind, and conditions in your garden.
These guides use French seasonal and climatic references. Adapt them to the conditions where you garden.
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Ice Saints: Should You Wait to Plant in the Vegetable Garden?
The Ice Saints fall on 11, 12 and 13 May. Before planting tomatoes and courgettes, check the risk of frost, night-time temperatures and soil conditions.
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Mountain Vegetable Garden: Adapting Crops to Terrain and Frost
In mountain climates, select crops based on exposure, cold nights, and observed growing season length—no single date applies to all ranges.
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Vegetable garden in a semi-oceanic climate: adjusting sowing and watering
In a transitional climate, adapt the vegetable garden to the soil, cold nights and dry periods. Guidelines for sowing, planting and watering without uniform dates.
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Vegetable Gardening in a Continental Climate: Adapting to Each Season
Adapt your vegetable garden to semi-continental conditions: local frost, variety selection, spring soil management, and water monitoring during hot summers.
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Vegetable Gardening in a Mediterranean Climate: Adapting the Calendar and Watering
Prepare a Mediterranean vegetable garden based on available water, heat, and intense rainfall, taking account of the coast and surrounding terrain.
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Vegetable Gardening in an Oceanic Climate: Adjusting to Soil, Wind and Seasonal Conditions
In an oceanic climate, adjust sowing, planting, and watering to soil condition, wind, and cool nights, without a single calendar for all of western France.
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Vegetable gardens in the French overseas territories: choosing a calendar suited to your garden
Select your growing guidelines for the French overseas territories based on territory, altitude, wet and dry seasons, and available water, with three local examples.
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