Location is everything when it comes to a successful garden. It is the same with an indoor garden. Your edible window garden will greatly depend on the windows you have. Not every window is equally good for a window garden, let's see where to grow an edible window garden. Choose the best window for ...
Edible Window Garden
In the fall, when the outdoor garden is done and the temperature drops to freezing and below, we move back into our house and wait for spring grow an indoor edible window garden. Grow food year-round in any weather following these simple and proven techniques. The edible window garden history We ...
Heirloom Tomato Varieties We Grow In a Northern Garden
Heirloom tomato varieties we grow in a northern garden in Alberta, Canada. Many have become our favorites in taste and production. Growing tomatoes in a cool climate is a challenging and fun thing to do. We grow mainly heirloom tomatoes. Every year we try some new varieties and choose from those ...
Growing Sweet Potatoes in Cold Climate
Sweet potatoes are a heat-loving summer crop. They are not suited for the northern climate, nor a short growing season. Here at Northern Homestead, we are dealing with both. But sweet potatoes are tasty and so good for you. We love them baked with some homemade sour cream, yum. So ...
The Easiest Way to Preserve Tomatoes
From the moment we plant the very first tomato seeds (when it is still snowing), we look forward to harvesting the ripe tomatoes, biting in, and savoring the taste ... Yummy! Sometimes there are more tomatoes than we can eat or have time to preserve. Not to worry! The easiest way ever to preserve ...
How To Ripen Green Tomatoes
Our growing season is very short. It might just be 100 days, plus our summers tend to be on the cooler side. At the end of the short summer, there are usually still many green tomatoes. Thankfully, tomatoes ripen nicely after already being harvested. Here is how to ripen green tomatoes ...
Garden Update – Fall 2017 on Video
Another great summer is coming to an end. Here is a fall 2017 garden update for our no dig garden in Alberta, Canada. If you have followed our garden update videos you will know it was a good season in the garden. Overall it seemed just a few degrees above average. That made a huge difference for ...
How to Freeze Greens
Dark, leafy greens are so healthy and great in green smoothies and in hearty dishes. You want to make sure to have them available year round. It is really easy to do so by preserving them! Here is a how-to freeze greens. What greens can be frozen? I'm pretty sure all edible greens can be ...
Lecho Canned Bell Peppers Recipes
Lecho, Letscho, leczo, or лечо is a popular canned Bell Peppers Recipe in eastern Europe. Just like with all traditional dishes there are many versions of it. I too make different canned lecho recipe versions for winter. We enjoy lecho as a side dish to any dinner, but a classic is to serve it ...
Plant Based Spaghetti Bolognese Sauce
Spaghetti bolognese sauce from scratch has been a favourite simple meal of ours for years. Now we also make it plant-based and love it even more. It is a bit more work than to just opening a jar, but it's so worth it. After all, if you make it from scratch you know exactly what you get - all healthy ...
