Here's a comprehensive guide on how to grow carrots in your own home garden! If you want to grow Carrots, you need to make sure that the ground they are going into is rock free. Check to make sure the soil has a fairly neutral pH and low levels of nitrogen; opt instead for soil rich in potassium and phosphate. If there are rocks, your carrot plants will find a way to fork around them and you … [Read more...]
Best Garlic Cloves for Planting – Growing Garlic – Part 4
How to choose the best garlic cloves for planting - just follow these tips! Here's the fourth (and last) installment in the How to Plant Garlic series and this part focuses on how to choose the best garlic cloves for planting. The first article can be found here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here. Here in Canada, we plant garlic (Allium sativum) in the Fall before the ground freezes. This allows the … [Read more...]
Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter
It's Fall and things are finally winding down in the garden. Everything has been dug up and dealt with. Now it's time to start putting the garden to bed for winter. Here's what we've done so far this season with our garden harvests. Root crops are being stored in our cold room. The canning is almost finished for the season and we're happy to see jars full of home canned goodness on our … [Read more...]
How to Grow Cabbage
Cabbage is not a difficult plant to grow, especially in the Northern areas. It loves cooler weather and is quite hardy. Here's how to grow Cabbage. Cabbage is a heavy feeder though, so that means there will need to be a good layer of composted manure in the garden for it. Cabbage is such a good Cold Room staple for over Winter. It is really worth it to set aside some room in your … [Read more...]
How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes
In this second installment on Growing Garlic, I'm going to share a fantastic Pickled Garlic Scapes recipe. In the first post, I gave an overview about the process involved with growing Garlic. Garlic is one of the easiest garden vegetables to grow! Here in the Cariboo, the Garlic Scapes come on hot and heavy in early summer around July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the garden, we … [Read more...]
How to Transplant Tomato Plants
Learn how to transplant Tomato plants - and why it's important to transplant tomato seedlings! Whether you start tomato plants from seed, or you purchase tomato plants at the nursery, it's important to transplant them again before planting them outside in your vegetable garden. Unless you buy tomato plants in 2 … [Read more...]
How to Grow Zucchini
Learn how to grow zucchini in your vegetable garden. A little Zucchini goes a long way! You only need to plant a few zucchinis in your garden to enjoy a large harvest. They just keep on setting more and more zucchinis. Here is how to grow zucchini. Why You Should Grow Zucchini Zucchini is more of a summer squash and a heat loving plant - I don't put my zucchini plants into the garden until … [Read more...]
How to Grow Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a delicious perennial vegetable. Learn how to grow Rhubarb in your backyard! Rhubarb is one of the first plants we see here in early spring. It's very easy to grow Rhubarb and it is a hardy perennial, meaning that you plant it once and it will come up year after year. Many people get 20 years worth of harvest off of a single rhubarb plant. That is a great return. Use rhubarb in … [Read more...]
Containers for Seed Starting
It won't be long until I can start planting the first seeds of the year. I can't wait - I always get itchy to get my hands in some dirt. I begin to dream of being in the garden, working the soil and being in the sun. For now I have to content myself with starting seeds indoors. Part of the process is getting my hands on containers for seed starting. What containers to use for seed … [Read more...]