A guide to useful herbs for Alberta Zone 3, including their uses in cooking and medicine, when to plant, how to harvest, and care tips for optimal growth.
Winter may technically be upon us, but the sunlight is gaining day by day, so I can’t help but feel that anticipation for the upcoming gardening season here in Alberta’s …
And just like that, she reappears! Time really gets away from me. How is in the middle of November? I’m still trying to process that summer has come and gone! …
I, for one, am glad we live so far north during this extended North American heatwave. It’s still miserably hot during the day, but as soon as the sun goes …
I managed to get into the greenhouse, mostly before the heat hit, and attacked the jungle of weeds. It started to feel a bit like an oven so I had …
Happy Canada Day! I’m talking softly here so the garden doesn’t get it’s feelings hurt. It’s trying it’s best but the weather has just been a total jerk (that is, …
I’ve seen it mentioned that Canada is the “canary in the coalmine” for climate change (excuse the unintentional alliteration there), and our extremely unusually mild winters have made it clear …
Last year, we were hot, dry, and smoky, and fires were everywhere. This year is a 180° difference with fun things, like near freezing temperatures 2 weeks after the last …
It’s amazing how fast kids grow. All kids. But chicks, they almost literally change every time you look at them. The chicks are about 5 weeks old, we’ve had them …
Ok, technically the first of the seeds got started mid-January, that being celery, onions, and strawberries, all seeds that need a long period of growth before the last frost date. …
A dry spring came early and with it, periods of heat that have literally set Alberta ablaze. It’s not unheard of – in early May, 7 years ago, we saw …
It has been a whirlwind summer. The garden went in, with many lessons learned through the whole season. In early July, we got enough of the fencing done to put …