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Chez Michel
All merchants | Christmas trees, Fruit and vegetable growers, Horticulturists
Chez Michel is a family business located in the heart of Little Italy in Montreal. Since 1968, it has been offering top quality products, all year round!
Spring/Summer: Flowers, herbs, exotic plants, terracotta pots, repotting service (bring your pots!) and delivery service.
Automn: Italian peppers and tomatoes. Hot peppers and garlic from Quebec. Everything for reserves and winter preserves.
winter season: Christmas tree market. Hundreds of fir trees on display and decorations of all kinds: wreaths, wooden reindeer and branches. Fast delivery service. Find us behind the SAQ market, Casgrain side!
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The Fraser fir is the most resistant of all the firs. Its branches are strong and it has excellent needle retention.
A cross between the two most well-known Christmas trees: balsam and Fraser fir. Fragrant and resistant.
Decorative reindeer made out of birch. A natural christmas decoration, unique from the markets!
Vegetable plant: tomato, eggplant, salad, pepper... Your merchant will tell what he has for you, just ask him.
Strawberry, tomato... Ask your merchant what kind of hanging basket he has.
Fresh herbs plants are perfects for your garden or your balcony. Depending the merchant, you will find plants of: basil, coriander, curry, chives, eucalyptus, Moroccan mint, spearmint, oregano, rosemary, savory, stevia, thyme... Used it to flavor a flat or to make tea!
Basil is commonly used fresh in cooked recipes. In general, it is added at the last moment, as cooking quickly destroys the flavor. The fresh herb can be kept for a short time in plastic bags in the refrigerator, or for a longer period in the freezer, after being blanched quickly in boiling water. The dried herb also loses most of its flavor, and what little flavor remains tastes very different, with a weak coumarin flavor, like hay.
Basil is one of the main ingredients in pesto -a green Italian oil-and-herb sauce. Its other main ingredients are olive oil, garlic, and pine nuts.
With its 1,000, 000 of Scotville scale*, this hot pepper of habanero type will become the fire at yours lingual papillas.
*Scotville scale: measures the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers. From 100 to 500: sweet pepper.
They are commonly seen in bedding schemes in parks and gardens, but can also be grown indoors as houseplants if given enough light. More compact erect and trailing varieties are ideal for window boxes and hanging baskets, in association with other half-hardy plants like lobelias, petunias and begonias.
