Improving the soil in raised garden beds is an ongoing process. I have been gardening for a number of years now and am always looking for new ways to make the soil better. Using raised beds I find it so much easier to garden than the traditional in-ground garden. The type of raised beds I’m referring […]
Finally… the Hugelkultur test results! Last year in May we created a new raised garden bed using the hugelkultur method. I called it a modified hugelkultur and you can read about it here. During the summer I compared it to my regular raised garden bed and here are the results. In the hugelkultur bed, I had planted […]
It’s January here and we are still harvesting from the garden on the West Coast of Canada. And everything is DELICIOUS! Imagine going out to your garden to pick vegetable for dinner in January? Now I know all of you living on the west coast are saying “big deal”, but after visiting my family on […]
This year I got my Christmas present early and as the saying goes… “it’s the gift that keeps on giving”. Actually, it was my sister that said that when I mentioned what I wanted for Christmas. So, when Rob asked me what I wanted, I mentally did a scan of what I really and truly […]
Something that struck me this year was the perseverance and resilience of plants. They really are amazing. I’ve been noticing this more and more because of all the plants that I’ve had in pots and the lack of care they have received and yet they still staunchly trouped on. My philosophy being if they die they […]
Normally, I don’t have an issue with critters in the garden. I live behind a 10-foot fence all around our property and it’s a gated community of two. Very few four-legged friends get in, but this year was a little different. First, it was the slugs! Now they are more of a pest than a critter, […]
Trying an experiment this year in planting I wanted to see which bean would do the best and be the tastiest… bush beans, pole beans, scarlet runners or black beans. All these beans are grown in raised beds and they all have their pros and cons. I’ll start with the weather. It started out quite wet […]
I saw this idea for a folding tomato cage when looking online one day. It looked like a perfect solution for containing tomatoes but the price tag was a little more than I wanted to spend. Made out of stainless steel it was a series of rings attached to a rod which you put into […]
Today I thought I would take you on a raised garden bed walk through. Be gentle… this is my first video ever. Disclaimers: don’t mind all the junk in the background. It’s not always like that. We moved a shed (right now it’s behind the little greenhouse before it arrives at its new spot) and […]
After two years of failures, I’ve finally found the secret to dehydrating mint. What’s the secret you ask? Follow the experts! My Mistakes: The first year I dried mint I just cut the stalks, hung them up and put to dry in the sun. Result Left them too long they were brown and dusty they […]
