Planting seeds into something that feels more like dust than soil, is a common thing here in Alberta. With over 300 days of sunshine a year, we do not get much rain at any time. Spring, however, often feels especially dry. Here we share how we deal with the dry spring weather challenge in the ...
Planting
Hardening off Plants the Easy Way
Hardening off plants that you started indoors the easy ways is different from the traditional method where you bring plants out on a nice and sunny day for 2 hours, then bring them back in, repeat that the next day for 4 hours and bring them in again. Adding a couple of hours each day it takes 7 -10 ...
Cold Spring Challenge in the Garden
Living in a cold climate cold is a constant challenge in the garden. We share many methods about how we survive blizzards and protect plants from frost. In this blog article, we want to particularly address the cold spring challenge in the garden. If you prefer listening to reading, you can ...
When to Plant What – Northern Planting Schedule
When to plant what in a vegetable garden? This is an important question. The northern planting schedule answers this question in a nontraditional way. The general rule in our area seems to be very simple: plant everything on the May long weekend. This has to do with our last frost day, ...
Planning the Vegetable Garden
Planning a vegetable garden is for those, who love making plans and lists, a welcomed exercise, but a struggle for not-natural planners. We are more in the latter category. You know how it goes, you make a plan, at least sort of, then change it and then lose it. Oh, the struggle! If you know what ...
How to Start Tomatoes from Seeds
Growing tomatoes is just as much fun as it is rewarding. In this article, I'm sharing how to start tomatoes from seeds using a 'no-fail method' that involves less work, which has worked for me for many years. With this method, you can go from seed to harvest in less than 4 months. Where ...
Planting a Hydroponic Garden
All growing starts with planting. Planting a hydroponic garden is no different from conventional soil planting. We love to start our plants from seeds, it is part of the gardening fun. With discovering hydroponics and indoor gardening a whole new gardening world opened up to us. Now planting a ...
Planting a Fall Garden in a Northern Climate
Our growing season is short, just over 100 days. It seems that with most plants we have just one shot. However, to use succession planting for a fall garden has been a goal of ours for many years. We started experimenting with it pushing the boundaries for planting a second crop, aka a fall garden ...
Transplanting Tomato Plants into the Ground
It is always a very exciting day when my tomato plants can finally go into the ground! I start all the seeds indoors. We grow mainly heirloom tomato varieties. Here we share how we do the transplanting tomato plants into the ground. When to plant tomatoes out Tomatoes are a warm-weather ...
Convert a hay field into a garden
How to convert a hay field into a garden. This spring our Community Garden offered us to do a no-till garden trial. We were immediately on board. We have been using a no-dig or till method in our home garden quite successfully. To convert a hay field is a bit of a different story, but eh, we are up ...
