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Le chou pousse bien dans ce jardin.

Le chou pousse bien dans ce jardin.
Cabbage grows well in this garden.
From Lesson 253:Fruit and vegetables·French

Questions & Answers about Le chou pousse bien dans ce jardin.

Why is it Le chou here when the English translation just says "Cabbage"?
In French, when you talk about a general category or species of plant, you must use the definite article (le, la, or les). English usually drops the article for general nouns like this.
The verb pousse means "grows", but doesn't pousser usually mean "to push"?
Yes, pousser means "to push", but it is also the standard verb used for plants growing. You can think of the plant pushing its way out of the soil! For people or animals growing up, you would use the verb grandir instead.
If I wanted to say "The cabbages grow well", how do I make chou plural?
Chou is one of a special group of French words ending in -ou that takes an -x in the plural instead of an -s. So "the cabbages" would be les choux and the sentence would start with Les choux poussent.
Why do we use ce for "this garden" instead of cet?
Jardin is a masculine word starting with a consonant, so it takes the standard masculine demonstrative adjective ce. You only use cet for masculine words that start with a vowel or a silent H, like cet arbre (this tree).

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