Growing pumpkins can take up a lot of garden area, but if you have the room, they are definitely worth growing. After harvest, here's how to store pumpkins and winter squash. Since growing pumpkins and winter squash is easy and often lead to a huge harvest, it’s important to know how to ensure that your harvest doesn’t go to waste. Being able to store food for winter is one of the biggest … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic – Part 3 How to Harvest and Cure Garlic
Here's the third part of our Growing Garlic series. Part 1 is an overview of growing Garlic. Part 2 covers harvesting the garlic scapes - which we turn into Pickled Garlic Scapes. Now we're moving on to how to harvest and cure Garlic. Your Garlic has now been growing all spring and summer. You've removed the Garlic Scape that is on each plant. Right about now, you are probably … [Read more...]
How to Grow Pepper Plants From Seed
Peppers are a great vegetable to grow, whether you grow sweet peppers in the garden or hot peppers in containers on your patio or balcony. And, peppers are easy to grow, which is a bonus. Here are some tips for starting pepper plants from seed. How to Grow Peppers from Seed You are always better off to start peppers indoors from seed, rather than planting pepper seeds right into the garden. … [Read more...]
The 8 Fastest Growing Vegetables for Your Garden
We are getting close to gardening season, so buy your seeds and let's get started. Here are the eight fastest vegetables to grow in your garden. You can also plant in containers on your patio, in long planters on your apartment balcony or you can even tuck in some vegetables among your flower and shrubbery beds. The 8 Fastest Growing Vegetables for Your Garden Getting … [Read more...]
How Big of a Container Does a Pepper Plant Really Need?
We enjoy growing peppers in our greenhouse. We plant some in the ground but we also grow peppers in containers. If you're wondering how big of a container a pepper plant really needs, this article will interest you. Peppers take a notoriously long time to germinate - as in, it can take them 2 weeks to break through the soil after planting the seeds. That's the first thing you need to … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic in the Garden (4 Part Series)
Thinking of growing garlic in your garden? You, my friend, are a person after my own heart. Here's everything you need to know about how to grow garlic. In my house, garlic is a staple for so many meals. Not only does it add a wonderful flavor to recipes, but it’s a healthy superfood. It’s packed with vitamins C, B6, manganese, and selenium as well as a good source of antioxidants (I’m … [Read more...]
10 Tips to Get the Most out of a Small Garden
When you have a large backyard garden, you can easily plant whatever crops, vegetables or herbs you like. When your garden is small, you will need to be more creative if you want to get the most out of your garden. Small garden spaces can still be utilized to maximize the output you can derive from them. Here are some tips on how to do that effectively. Get the Most from a Small … [Read more...]
How to Grow Carrots
If you want to grow Carrots, you need to make sure that the ground they are going into is rock free. If there are rocks, your carrots will find a way to grow around them and you will end up with some funky looking carrots. Carrots like loose soil, so if you have a spot with loose soil to about a foot deep, put your Carrots in there. Aside from rock free soil, they are pretty easy to grow and … [Read more...]
Growing Garlic – Part 4 Knowing Which Cloves to Replant
Here's the fourth (and last) installment in the How to Plant Garlic series and this one focuses on choosing cloves for planting. The first article can be found here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here. Here in Canada, we plant garlic in the Fall before the ground freezes. This lets the garlic cloves settle in and even grow a few roots. Then when the cold weather comes, the cloves go dormant for the … [Read more...]