Another gardening season officially is coming to an end. In this post we want to do a review on our annual garden, what worked well in this year’s garden, and what we will be looking into doing differently in the future. What worked well and what should we do different next ...
Our Garden '16
Garden Update – August 2016 on Video
Summer is coming to a close here at Northern Homestead. August was a rainy gardening month – we got all the rain we were short of in spring. Things are growing and ripening so nicely though. In this update we take a look at the roofless greenhouse and the tomatoes growing in there, the peppers ...
Garden Update – July 2016 on Video
We are enjoying summer here at Northern Homestead. July was a good gardening moth - things are growing and ripening so nicely. In this garden update video we talk about tomato varieties in a greenhouse, Ruffles greenhouse, and the Tower Garden. We take a look at the ground cherries and some other ...
Garden Update – June 2016 on Video
Here we are with another gardening update. This month we had some hail damage, but overall the plants are doing very well. In this update we take a look at the roofless greenhouse and the tomatoes growing in there, the tower gardens and the cucumbers and other plants growing in abundance there, ...
Garden Update – May 2016 on Video
Another gardening month has come and gone and we have enjoyed it very much. We had some nice summer weather and real winter weather, but that's part of a normal spring here in Alberta. In this garden update video we talk about frost protection with a greenhouse, roofless greenhouse, Plant ...
Garden Update – April 2016 on Video
This is our 5th year of monthly garden updates here at Northern Homestead. It has been helpful to record what was growing and how. 2014, for the first time, we went till November, and started again 2015 in January. There is a lot of winter growing in those posts. We do these updates mostly for us, ...
Winter Garden Update 2016
Spring is here, and we are so excited. But before winter is all gone and forgotten let's have a quick winter garden update 2016! It was our first winter that we were able to grow all our greens all winter long. We used the hydroponic Tower Garden indoors with grow lights, and loved the fresh leafy ...
