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 …
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 …
Back in 2008, in my very first garden blog post, I said that I hated weeding. And that was true for a lot of years. Weeding is not easy on …
Today was lovely with a thin cloud cover keeping the sun from baking everything, so after work I hit the garden for an hour before dinner. I couldn’t tell if …
Less work = more posting. More work = less posting. Funny how that works. I prefer more frequently posting little bits of news, it’s easier to look back on and …
Here we have Tomatoes: Round 2, after I inadvertently murdered half of Round 1 by leaving them outside, defenseless against the upcoming below freezing temperatures. Moms know all about pregnancy …