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Introducing the Best Compost Bins
Introducing the Best Compost Bins Are you tired of having to knock on your compost bin to scare the rats or mice away before you open the lid? Or have you seen squirrels chew through your plastic city-supplied compost bin, leaving easy rat-access holes? Then,...
Prepping & Planting Tomatoes : Step By Step
Prepping & Planting Tomatoes According to my soil thermometer, the soil temperature in my greenhouse is finally 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) so I prep the soil and plant this year's tomato crop. Prepping the soil involves adding an inch of compost from my...
Growing Better Food in Outdoor Garden Beds: Improve Existing Soil
How can I improve my existing soil to grow more food? Year one is always the honeymoon period in your new raised food beds. Everything is perfect and you are thinking about writing a book about how easy it is to grow food in your front yard. Potatoes are large,...
Winter Dreaming- Seed Ordering- What to order and what to save
It’s a new gardening year and the only thing I know for sure is that it is time to start scanning the shops, the online catalogues and your existing seeds to make a plan for growing your own food. There is a lot of seed shuffling between now and harvest and gardeners are at the starting gate in February. Ready, set, grow.
My Favourite Tomato This Year
Yes I grow tomatoes every year and every year I usually have the same favourite. And my favourite is usually the lovely Juliet - because with the way I grow (in a greenhouse), it is always the earliest, always the heaviest producer and always around for the longest...
Greenhouse Tips and Tricks: Get the best Advice Here
“We give the best advice we can in terms of setting up a greenhouse, planning out the heat, planning out the cooling. The greenhouse gives you the medium – it’s like the canvas, and then you just have to add a few little things [like] a small heater and [maybe] cooling if the fans aren’t going to be enough, we give advice on that. And BC Greenhouses are sold around the world from Australia and Europe to South America and across North America. It’s a small BC company with a big reputation internationally. ” Read on to find out more about planning your greenhouse.
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