It’s that itch, I tell ya, it gets me every time. As soon as the days start getting longer, and the seed catalogues start showing up in the mailbox, I just have to plant something. So, I pull out the storage boxes where I keep my surplus seeds and I …
In the waning days of winter, after the groundhog has chimed in, when the bright sun shines warm on your face, and the warmest days “feeling like spring”, the itch for the coming garden season starts creeping across your skin. Though honestly, some years I’m not sure it ever goes …
How do you decide what to grow?! Well, if you’re like me: you don’t. You just make more and bigger gardens to fit all the plants you plan to cram into it until there are no more varieties left. If only that were true. It would make buying seeds much …
Site selection and sizing can seem like easy decisions to make when it comes to start a home garden, but how many of us who gardened have said, after a few years, “I wish this was a little closer to the house,” or “if I’d know that tree was going …
A quick photo tour of the greenhouses; I snapped some pictures of the growth progress of the seedlings. The last picture shows how I keep the more tender seedlings in the little greenhouse warm (peppers, eggplant, etc).
I get a kick out of the random zinnia seedling in the first photo, in a cell with dianthus. It’s right along the back near the centre; proudly standing upright to remind me that it sneaked through.
Around this time of year I have what I’ve come to call water table envy. What that means is that while everyone else is watching their gardens dry up day after day I’m watching mine grow algae. Right now the big back garden (25,500 sq.ft) is totally saturated, the little back …
When I was just a kid (y’know, just a few year ago, ahem) – when my gardening experience consisted almost entirely of dropping seeds in rows where my grandfather pointed – I had a neighbour who had big beautiful flower beds. He was very proud of them, and justly so; …
Today’s greenhouse mission was a success. We went today to look at a used greenhouse that had previously been in service at a farm in Kingston’s east end (Salt of the Earth Farm). It was already disassembled, but it was clearly in good shape, the price was right and I …
Cilantro is hard. It’s basically my gardening arch-nemesis. I plant cilantro and all I get is coriander*! 2014 was my third attempt at growing cilantro, and I thought I had it figured out. In a previous attempt I had planted it and the tiny little seedlings shrivelled up and died …
If you’re like me and you’ve tried to grow “outside” vegetables inside and failed miserably… well, get ready for this one: First Ripe Cantaloupe Grown in Closet – Vegetable Gardening Forum – GardenWeb Return to the Vegetable Gardening Forum | Post a Follow-Up First ripe cantaloupe grown in closet Posted …
