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A Great Non-hybrid Seed Source!
Ottawa, Ontario, March 6th, 2011 One of the best places to purchase your non-hybrid seeds is at your local Seedy Saturdays meeting. Seedy Saturdays are seed exchanges where small seed suppliers, gardening clubs and gardeners can buy, sell, exchange and learn all about seeds. It’s a marvelous way...
Maple Syrup is starting to flow.
We have several Maple Trees on the property so in the spring as it starts to warm I tap the trees. The trees are quite large so I usually put 3 buckets on each tree. You can expect the sap to run if the nights are cold – below 0 and the days are above 0 and the sun helps a lot as well. This year...
Vegetable Gardening Tips
With the costs of living rising all the time, it may be possible to save money and increase your family’s health at the same time by growing vegetables in your backyard. It’s a good idea to choose your favourite vegetables to grow and plan beds for early, middle of the season and late varieties. Most...
Grow Your Vegetable Garden Inside
Vegetable seeds can be planted indoors. With a bit of low tech currently available on the market. $100 and a bit of light, you can grow lettuce, herbs and even radishes indoors. Choose Appropriate Vegetables Different plants have different requirements and with indoor gardens the major restrictions...
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Coyote Eating Apples
“Coyotes don’t eat apples!” That’s the usually response when we tell anyone about the coyote eating apples in our small orchard. Finally, after a year of fruitless stalking, pure serendipity landed us in the right place at the right time to photograph the coyote eating our windfall...
Growing Your Own Christmas Trees
“It looks very bare” said my aunt when she first viewed our four acre property. Though we had a surplus of out-buildings, trees were practically non-existent. A few scrawny 20 foot cedars grew to the west of the house and they kept company with four sad lonely maple trees. Besides seven out-buildings...
What’s Up : Spring Flowers in the May Garden
With the mild winter up here in Ottawa, Ontario, it seems that most of our plants have survived this year. The current dry spell is a bit of a challenge to new growth. Seedlings, with their shallow root systems, are really struggling. Here in the valley, it keeps looking like rain, but at the end...
Indoor Gardening
Plants should be as important as furniture when one is deciding on furniture and soft furnishings for your home. Aside from the aesthetic value plants provide your home with, there are also health benefits – grade school science class tells us that plants cleanse the air through utilizing the carbon...
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The Display Vegetable Garden in October
The first hard frost finally arrived in mid-October. That frost finished the growing season for the Black Beauty zucchini, the beans, the tomatoes and the squash vines. So sad to see the last remnants of the once-flourishing garden shrivelled beyond all recognition. With the bountiful harvest of squash, zucchini, tomatoes and beans we’ve been too busy freezing and processing to mourn the loss of our vegetable garden. Successful Vegetables Anna Hubbard Squash The Anna Hubbard squash were the... [Read more of this article]
The Display Vegetable Garden in August
August was a perfect blend of heat and rain. The vegetable garden has flourished into a tangled jungle. The regular rains made it totally unnecessary to lug heavy hoses around. Since the garden was really overgrown, the weeds never had a chance. Basically all we do now is harvest our bounty of crops. Successful VegetablesThe 12 x 12 Display Garden in August Our plan to pick only the larger carrots and leave the little ones has worked out fabulously. The remaining carrots are now all a decent... [Read more of this article]
The Display Vegetable Garden in July
Radishes from the Display Vegetable GardenWhat a difference a month has made. The 12 x 12 foot display garden is now producing quite nicely and has begun to look like a bit of a jungle. July has continued to be delightfully warm, with just-in-time rain showers. Though it’s probably a great exercise for me, not having to pull around those 100 foot hoses has been such a relief Successful Vegetables The couple of remaining radishes inter-planted among the carrots have now gone to seed to provide... [Read more of this article]
The Display Vegetable Garden in June
It’s been a month since we planted the 12 x 12 foot display garden. In the last week of May we hit some record high temperatures for the Ottawa, Ontario region and the garden is now coming along very nicely. In fact this week, we actually managed to pick our first garden grown veggies for our salads. The 12 x 12 display vegetable garden June 21st, 2010 Successful Vegetables Tatsoi has been the biggest surprise in our trial veggie garden. We purchased the seeds at an organic growers meet... [Read more of this article]
Grow Carrots in Your Boots! Book Review of: Growing Stuff
Growing Stuff An Alternative Guide to Gardening will charm anyone with a sense of fun and a love of gardening. The book contains creative projects on growing vegetables, herbs and flowers. Most gardening projects in this book require few tools, are easy to do and inexpensive. Both novice and experienced gardeners can discover numerous innovative ideas in the short and original articles. Creative and fun, this is one of my favorite books The Projects The projects presented are extremely... [Read more of this article]
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