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MM trellis
€ 99MM slug fence
From € 49,95MM cover
From € 5,99Plant labels, trowel & rake
€ 29,95MM trowel
€ 10,95MM hand rake
€ 10,95MM plant labels
€ 9,95Seed-starting kit
€ 19,95Salanova seed-starting kit
€ 34,95Airpots
From € 5,95MM seed storage box
€ 29,95Plant food measuring spoon
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Water reservoirs
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Spare parts
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Water reservoirs
The full Makkelijke Moestuin guide
1. Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden
Giving each plant enough light, air, water, space, nutrients, and attention is pretty tricky. Not in a Makkelijke Moestuin: there, it happens all by itself.
2. About us
Why Jelle started Makkelijke Moestuin, how it grew into a movement, and why we work differently from most companies.
3. The garden box
The garden box is the heart of the Makkelijke Moestuin system. Its smart setup gives your plants almost everything they need from the start.
4. The soil mix
In the Makkelijke Moestuin, you don’t use your own soil but a special veggie garden mix. All your plants do well in that mix.
5. The water reservoir
Why a smart water reservoir helps your plants grow better while saving you time and effort: how it works, and how and when to water.
Knowledge base
Makkelijke Moestuin system
- What is a Makkelijke Moestuin?
- Hi, I'm Jelle
- Sowing in your Makkelijke Moestuin
- FAQs for first time gardeners
- What can the Makkelijke Moestuin do for you?
- Growing vegetables in your Makkelijke Moestuin
- Plant, sow, or pre-sow?
- Harvesting as long and efficiently as possible
- Mistakes beginners make in the vegetable garden
- What isn't a Makkelijke Moestuin?
- Square Foot Gardening and the Makkelijke Moestuin
Getting set up
- How do you plan a Makkelijke Moestuin?
- Everything about vegetables in a Makkelijke Moestuin
- How many garden boxes do you need?
- Buy or build a garden box
- What is the MM-Mix?
- Place and fill your garden box
- Starting in your garden box
- Starting a mini vegetable garden
- Starting your vegetable garden in no time
- DIY guide
Garden care
- Get your vegetable garden ready for the new season
- Watering your vegetable garden
- Pruning tomatoes, cucumbers, and pumpkins
- How do you harvest courgettes?
- Perfect vegetable garden and perfect plants?
- Mid-February: can you start sowing now?
- End of May, early June: harvest and add nutrients
- Going on holiday with a vegetable garden
- July: tomatoes, cucumbers and courgettes
- August: sowing for autumn
- Early September sowing
- October sowing
- Which vegetables can handle cold weather?
- Get your vegetable garden ready for winter
- White lumps on the roots: good for your plants
- Help the birds this winter
Inspiration and ideas
About our seeds
- All seeds
- Makkelijke Moestuin sowing calendar
- Are our seeds organic?
- What are Salanovas?
- What does F1 mean on seed packets?
- African marigolds: sowing, growing and companion planting
- Asian salad mix: sowing and growing
- Endive: sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Bush tomato - sowing and growing
- Bush basil: sowing and growing
- Beetroot: sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Bush basil - sowing and growing
- Chioggia beetroot: sowing and growing
- Cos lettuce: sowing, growing and harvesting
- Butter beans - sowing and growing
- Climbing courgette: sowing and growing
- Liquorice mint - sowing and growing
- Yellomato: sowing and growing
- Pot marigolds: sowing, growing and using calendula
- Cucumber - sowing and growing
- Cilantro: sowing and growing
- Bibb lettuce: sowing and growing
- NZ spinach: sowing and growing
- Indian cress - sowing and growing
- Bok choi - sowing and growing
- Dino kale - sowing and growing
- Snow pea - sowing and growing
- Sowing and growing Red Crispy lettuce
- Baby pumpkin - sowing and growing
- Radish - sowing and growing
- Arugola: sowing, growing and harvesting
- Chard - sowing and growing
- Romano pole bean - sowing and growing
- Bacon bean: sowing and growing
- Spinach - sowing and growing
- Bush bean - sowing and growing
- Stem lettuce - sowing and growing
- Sugar snap - sowing and growing
- Lamb's lettuce - sowing and growing
- Winter pea - sowing and growing
- Winter purslane - sowing and growing
- Carrot - sowing and growing
- Purple carrot - sowing and growing
- Sunflowers: sowing, growing and harvesting seeds
(Pre-)sowing
- Sowing in a square in your garden box
- Thinning your seedlings: what, why, and how
- Pre-sprouting snow peas, winter peas, and sugar snaps
- How to pre-sow tomatoes indoors
- Pre-sowing courgettes, cucumbers and pumpkins
- Ice saints and hardening off your seedlings
- How long do your seeds stay good?
- Are your old seeds still good?
- Harvesting seeds yourself
- How do you take care of pre-sown plants?
Other plants
- Growing early potatoes in a garden box
- Growing herbs in pots or garden boxes
- Strawberries in your Makkelijke Moestuin
- Chives: sow or plant?
- Vegetables and herbs for the bees
- Buy vegetable seedlings or not?
- Growing potatoes in a pot
- Planting potatoes in an MM-Air grow bag
- Raspberries in your Makkelijke Moestuin
- When to plant garlic
- Beans in your vegetable garden
Problems
- Help! Slugs and snails in your Makkelijke Moestuin
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in your Makkelijke Moestuin
- How to recognise and deal with mildew
- Why are my courgettes falling off?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- How can you help the bees?
Blog
07 Jun. 2026
Hoe blijf je nu maximaal oogsten?
Over snel groeiende groentes, op tijd oogsten, vakken wel of niet leeghalen, en blijven zaaien. En wat doe je tegen die slakkenplaag?
24 May 2026
Help je mee met het nieuwe boek?
In de komende maanden maken we een nieuw boek over de Makkelijke Moestuin methode. Wil jij ons daarbij helpen? Wie weet krijg jij dan een van de eerste.
17 May 2026
Mid-May: hardening off and yellowing seedlings
Last year the summer vegetables were already outside by now. This year, not yet. About slow growth, yellowing seedlings and crowded windowsills.
10 May 2026
Sowing beans and hardening off summer vegetables
About making room on the windowsill, Ice Saints, step-by-step hardening off, and why now is a good time for beans.
03 May 2026
Busy with the summer vegetables
Repotting tomatoes, raising larger summer vegetables, and increasingly full windowsills. Plus: how is everything doing outside?
26 Apr. 2026
Late April, heading into May
About pre-sprouting and pre-sowing courgettes and cucumbers, starting now, and why May is my favourite gardening month.
12 Apr. 2026
10 easy seeds for beginners
Which vegetables are genuinely easy for your first garden, grow well, rarely fail and give a quick harvest? Plus: there is still just time to sow tomatoes.
05 Apr. 2026
Easter, spring and strawberries
These everbearing strawberries are easy to care for and give you large, tasty fruit all summer. They are available temporarily, while stocks last.
01 Apr. 2026
Kun je nog beginnen met een moestuin?
Starten met een Makkelijke Moestuin kan het hele jaar door, maar voor een gewone moestuin ben je nu al te laat. Lees waarom en bekijk voorbeelden.
22 Mar. 2026
Waarom een voorzaaimix van kokos?
Het is bijna weer tijd om tomaten voor te zaaien en dit jaar doen we dat ook op kokos. Over uitdagingen en oplossingen en hoe we daarmee omgaan.
Accessories
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MM trellis
€ 99
MM slug fence
From € 49,95
MM cover
From € 5,99
Plant labels, trowel & rake
€ 29,95
MM trowel
€ 10,95
MM hand rake
€ 10,95
MM plant labels
€ 9,95
Seed-starting kit
€ 19,95
Salanova seed-starting kit
€ 34,95
Airpots
From € 5,95
MM seed storage box
€ 29,95
Plant food measuring spoon
€ 3,95
Spare parts
Water reservoirs
Spare parts
The full Makkelijke Moestuin guide
If you want to read everything.
1. Makkelijke Moestuin vs traditional vegetable garden
Giving each plant enough light, air, water, space, nutrients, and attention is pretty tricky. Not in a Makkelijke Moestuin: there, it happens all by itself.
2. About us
Why Jelle started Makkelijke Moestuin, how it grew into a movement, and why we work differently from most companies.
3. The garden box
The garden box is the heart of the Makkelijke Moestuin system. Its smart setup gives your plants almost everything they need from the start.
4. The soil mix
In the Makkelijke Moestuin, you don’t use your own soil but a special veggie garden mix. All your plants do well in that mix.
5. The water reservoir
Why a smart water reservoir helps your plants grow better while saving you time and effort: how it works, and how and when to water.
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