Mid-July Update
I know it seems like I went dark again on this blog, but I didn’t! Just been busily toiling away after the mad rush of getting everything in the garden (and building a new shady garden along the side of the house that will house …
Growth Notes & Gardening Updates
A section for notes taken throughout the growing season, and includes specific notes and observations for varieties being grown.
Summer Is Here
May Long Weekend is the weekend for gardening here in Central Alberta. It’s when we’re pretty much guaranteed not to have to worry about frosts anymore, and people go absolutely crazy. My mom and I got a jump on some last minute plants and garden …
Potting Up
It’s amazing what a few days difference makes in the life of a seed start (see previous post for a photo from 12 days ago). I love the variation of tomatoes you can see even when they’re this small. Big, small, regular leaf, potato leaf, …
Dead Seed & Making New Plans
I’ve had really good luck with extremely old seed. I’ve successfully germinated tomato seed that’s 20 years old in the past. I might get only one or two out of fifty, but that’s sometimes all you need to get a stock going. Invariably though, some …
Mid-March Check In
I wanted to do a quick post before it got too much later into the month. The peppers have all been started and are up, although I may end up doing another sowing of my ‘Jimmy Nardello’ peppers – the germination was surprisingly low for …
Commence Germination Testing
I love this yearly ritual. It’s always the first gardening thing I get to do each year to kick off the growing season. Especially in my climate, when in January a garden seems so far away (it is currently -20C and snowy as I type …