If it’s green, it’s a vegetable, if it’s a vegetable chances are your kid has already called the family dog over to the kitchen table for back up. Your goal as a parent is to feed your kids the nutrients that they need, but they aren’t making it easy on you. Here are some fun ways that your kid won’t be feeding the dog under the table. http://www.aupair.org/blog/8-ways-to-make-vegetables-fun/

The Vegetalot is fast becoming a staple education tool within schools to teach young children where their food comes from and the benefits of growing your own vegetables. Clean and easy and at an easy working height, children can easily tend the Vegetalot just a few minutes each day and see the results of their work without back-breaking muddy patches to contend with.

“This product range offers us the perfect solution for promoting the education of a healthy lifestyle to children in schools. Children from Early Years and upwards will enjoy the planting and digging activities Vegetalot brings and can enjoy the complete process of growing vegetables from seed to table.”   Laurent Isorez, Vegetalot Manager

We are delighted to announce that from January 2011 the Vegetalot will be manufactured using Forest Stewardship Council Certified raw materials.
“The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international organization that brings people together to find solutions which promote responsible stewardship of the world’s forests.”

Laurent Isorez, Director for Yardigreen inc, commented: “this is a very significant milestone in the development of our global business.  Our patent award gives our customers confidence that we are serious about protecting our products and our brand, as well as ensuring that our customers are protected from imitation products.

2 years of damned hard work we have put into creating the Vegetalot product and brand,
we take very seriously any breach of our Design Registrations and Trade Mark.
We will not hesitate to take the strongest legal recourse available to us to protect our business.

Customers would be advised to only buy the Vegetalot from a stockist listed on our website and make sure that they are buying the original and proven Vegetalot. Please note that the Vegetalot is branded on the front panel with ‘VEGETALOT.COM’. Our products are rigorously tested and produced under strict quality control.
We also ensure that our products are made from sustainable, renewable raw materials CEDAR FSC contol.

If you see a copy of the Vegetalot product in the market, please do let us know.

 Thanks for supporting our family and worker-owned business.

INSTALLATION FREE!

Bed + Cover + irrigation + Organic  soil + 3 Handtools +“beginnner’s Guide + Garden journal

Happy Gardening!

Master Gardener Laurent

People often ask me  why I called my big raised bed garden Vegetalot “Ratatouille”.

So here is the answer- Ratatouille is a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in Nice. The full name of the dish is ratatouille niçoise. I called the vegetalot planter “Ratatouille” in memory of my grandmother born in Nice  who was an outstanding gardener and has given us the taste and the joy of gardening.

My grand mother secret of a good ratatouille is to cook the vegetables separately so each will taste truly of itself.

Ratatouille is usually served as a side dish, but also may be served as a meal on its own (accompanied by pasta, rice or bread). Tomatoes are a key ingredient, with garlic, onions, courgettes (zucchini), aubergine (eggplant), poivron (bell peppers), carrot, marjoram and basil, oregano, rosemary and thyme, like herbes de Provence.

Happy Gardening!

Master Gardener Laurent                                                                                                       www.vegetalot.com

In general, leafy vegetables are the most shade-tolerant, while those that fruit from a flower (tomatoes, peppers, squach, eggplants) are the least. In between are the root vegetables requiring a least a half day of full sun: potatoes, beets, carrots, and turnips. Shade tolerant leafy vegetables include lettuce, spinash, swiss chard, arugula, endive and radiccio. Broccoli (and its relatives–Kale, kohirabi, turnips, mustard and cabbage–also grow in partial shade.

Leafy vegetables display another advantage; they can be picked and enjoyed at any stage of maturity, unlike sun-loving vegetables that must ripen. Yet another advantage to these shade-tolerant plants is their conduciveness to successive planting. Planted early in the spring, they are ready to enjoy before the intense heat of mid-summer. Planted in mid-to-late summer, they athrive in the cooler days of early fall. Accordingly, they can be used to fill a gaps where summer-harvested vegetables have been picked, or even planted to take advantage of shade created by adjacent larger plants. One leafy vegetable, spinash, can be planted in mid-september, allowed to overwinter, and harvested earlier in the spring than if it were spring-seeded.

In planning your Vegetalot garden, don’t overlook the shady spots…they can be the source of both your earliest and latest harvest.

Good Gardening

Master Gardener Laurent

www.vegetalot.com

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It’s clever design means that you can now grow your own healthy and delicious Fruit, Vegetables, Salads & Herbs in the smallest of spaces – on your patio or even your balcony!

The Vegetalot comes in 4feet Long and around 30inch high and 33inch wide making it easy to tend to your crops without bending or stretching.

The great thing about Vegetalot is how accessible it makes your soil and plants. There is no back breaking digging involved and no bending over as all your plants are raised off the ground. It couldn’t be simpler! Whenever you need fresh vegetables or herbs you can walk to your Vegetalot and pick your own home grown goods.

If you’ve always wanted to grow vegetables, herbs and even fruit but haven’t had the space available well now you can. Growing them in a Vegetalot  means you don’t need to disturb your garden. If you only have a paved area or balcony then use the Vegetalot and get growing right outside your back door!

Building your Vegetalot couldn’t be easier. all the holes are pre-drilled. Just follow the diagram supplied with every Vegetalot. You will need a Philips screwdriver and an adjustable spanner.

After you have put the Vegetalot together, simply place the pre-formed liner into the Vegetalot so that the top edge overlaps. Fold the liner over the top edge of the Vegetalot and then pull the draw string tight to tighten the liner and hold it in place whilst you fill the Vegetalot with compost/soil.

Fill to within 3 or four inches of the top edge. Once the soil is in place, you can release the draw string and tuck the liner down to be level with the soil. The Vegetalot will take around 5 (42L) bags of compost/soil