It is our 8th spring in Canada and by far the earliest. There are flowers that bloom and trees that are green. We are spending many hours working in the garden. The soil is warm and the weather forecast good. Maybe global warming (if it is true!) is not so bad after all ;). Garden Design We ...
Garden Update – March 2015
March was a very exciting month garden wise. Partly due to an unusual early and warm spring, but more so because there was so much going on here. Seriously, March has always been very challenging for me, the long winter that seemed to never to come to an end and and spring that seemed so far away. ...
Building an Easy Pallet Deck
We moved into our house in late fall and were not so sure what to do about a sitting area. Since the house had no deck or patio, and we were still busy with other projects, we needed something DIY, easy, and free. Building, in our house, is Jakob's job. He is great in it and builds amazing things ...
Syrniki Recipe (Cottage Cheese Pancakes)
Note: This is an older recipe. We have since changed to a plant-based diet and love it. It's better for our health, all living and the planet. Growing up, my mom would make some kind of Cottage Cheese Pancakes. However, my mom made them differently, not as cheesy, so I actually forgot about them ...
Winter Growing Conditions in a Greenhouse
For years I was sure that winter is a time when a gardener dreams about the garden, enjoys seed catalogs and patiently waits for spring. But does it has to be so? What are the conditions for winter growing? Can we do it in a home greenhouse or grow room? What are the winter growing conditions in a ...
Garden Update – February 2015
Another month has gone by so quickly. Again, it was a month of learning. Winter and indoor gardening is a whole new world for us and it is so fun to experiment with it and learn from it. Seeds It is still winter in our “neck of the woods” and sometimes, it feels like spring does not come until ...
Keeping Chickens in Serious Winter
Can you keep chickens in winter... serious winter, like zone 3 winter, where temperatures drop to -40? Well you can, we do and many people around us do it too. So I asked local chicken keepers here in Alberta Canada how they keep chickens in this cold weather. Here are 4 winter chicken keepers ...
Hill Potatoes with Straw
Last year for the first time we hilled our potatoes with straw instead of dirt. We promised to keep you posted on the result. Let's look into our experiment. We planted the potatoes as per usual about 4 inches deep and about a foot apart. Then, once it was time to hill them, we put straw all ...
How to Grow in Grow Bags
Our first garden was a container garden on a balcony. We had no soil, so container gardening was the way to go for us. It is fun to grow a container garden on a balcony, patio, driveway or in a greenhouse. Containers allow us to grow food without owning a speck of land. Containers are also great for ...
Scrambled Egg Pancakes
Note: This is an older recipe. We have since changed to a plant-based diet and love it. It's better for our health, all living and the planet. You have never heard of scrambled egg pancakes? Me neither, I just came up with this name for a very old traditional food. In my family we would just call ...
