Temperature for an indoor edible garden is just as important as for an outdoor garden. Neither will you grow successfully cool weather crops during the hot summer months nor heat-loving plants during the cool season. Indoor edible plants also need to be planted according to room temperature. The ...
Winter Growing
Additional light for an indoor edible window garden
To grow edible plants successfully you need around 12 hours of daylight (except for sprouts and microgreens). It does not have to be all sunshine, but it has to be a bright light. A plant will not die if it does not get the light needed, but it will not grow much either. Additional light for an ...
What to Grow in an Indoor Edible Garden
What to grow in an indoor edible garden? That's a great question. The answer depends on two things: What are the growing conditions? What do you want to grow? If your indoor growing conditions are on the cooler side, and the light conditions present a cloudy day, grow leafy greens. With ...
Growing an indoor edible garden in soil
In this post, we talk about growing an indoor edible garden in soil. In our outdoor garden, growing in good organic soil is our very first choice. In an indoor garden, however, it is not our first choice. Why is that? Success and failure in growing great plants depend mostly on the ...
Where does our Homegrown Food come from in the Winter
Where does our homegrown food come from in the winter? As you know we grow a garden year-round, so do we have a greenhouse big enough and suitable to grow what we eat during the winter months? These are good questions, let's take a closer look. The year-round garden Growing food year-round ...
Preparing the Garden for Winter
Preparing the garden for winter is important for the garden soil and the perennial plants. We are in Zone 3 meaning winter temperature can drop to -40 degrees. In our particular area, this does not happen very often, but it might happen after a warm spell, where most of the snow melts. Protecting ...
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 ...
Why we heat the indoor garden with electricity
Every so often the question comes up on how we heat our indoor garden/greenhouse or why we heat the indoor garden with electricity. For those that don't know we are in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada. It is cold here. We use our indoor growing room year-round. In the ...
Plant Protection From Frost
Plant protection from cold and frost is an important subject for cold-climate gardeners. There can always be another frost after the "last day of frost" and before the "first day of frost". What are some easy methods to extend the growing season of the annual vegetable garden and grow healthy plants ...
Blizzard Conditions In The Garden
Living in Alberta Canada, blizzard conditions in the garden are a common threat. We have experienced it in spring as well as in fall. There is the possibility of snow in every month of the year. Our first spring here in 2008 we had beautiful weather in mid of April . We were excited to finally ...
