Hello and welcome to Northern Homestead 'End of Season' garden update. It's Fall 2018 and time for another video update. If you are new to our blog, you might want to know that we have garden updates since 2012. You can find them all tagged under Our Garden. Summer went by way too quickly. ...
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Garden Update – Summer 2018 on Video
Let us invite you to a summer garden update on video. Grab your favorite summer drink and enjoy the tour. We will take a look at the raised window protected garden and see how much better those plants grow comparing to the plant right next to it, but even better grow the plants in the geodesic ...
Indoor Garden Update – Winter 2018 on Video
Welcome to Northern Homestead Indoor Garden Update - Winter 2018 on video. The outdoor garden is covered in snow and temperatures are well into freezing. But in our food production garage things are growing well. Enjoy the tour! If you have trouble to see the video, go here. Growing ...
Garden Update – Summer 2017 on Video
It is mid summer here at Northern Homestead – July 20, 2017. Everything is growing and ripening nicely. Today we want to take you on a tour through our garden in this summer garden update on video. You will see many flowers that are still blooming. You can read more about our perennial favourites ...
Garden Update – Spring 2017 on Video
Welcome to our Spring 2017 garden update on video! It is the start of a new season and there are many wonderful changes happening in our backyard, and we are excited to share with you what has been going on. After successfully using A Cold Frame For Tomatoes we built a more permanent structure ...
Indoor Edible Garden Update
Another indoor edible gardening winter is coming to a close. It was more successful for us than ever before, and we are sure it can get even better. Indoor gardening has, like any gardening, a learning curve. Here is a video tour of our indoor edible garden on March 1. To watch the video on ...
End Of Season – Garden Update 2016
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 ...
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 – 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, ...