by Donna Balzer | Mar 11, 2023 | Food, GARDENING, Greenhouse, Uncategorized
Once I dig in I discover there are 139 varieties listed on the Dwarf Tomato Project website and I know I can’t try them all. I specifically want to try a few new varieties for my greenhouse without reading all the many plant descriptions so I ask an artificial intelligence program to suggest the top ten dwarf tomato varieties
by Donna Balzer | Jul 5, 2022 | Bugs & Buggers, Food, Gadgets, GARDENING, Landscaping Tips, Uncategorized
I am washing lettuce when I see a smallish “worm” on a leaf. Not a slug – that is usually a greyish-brown colour. The insect on my lettuce is white to clear-bodied, with black inner organs showing through the skin. The bug is about 1/2 an inch or 1 cm in...
by Donna Balzer | Apr 12, 2022 | Food
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...
by Donna Balzer | Feb 16, 2022 | Food, GARDENING, Greenhouse
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.
by Donna Balzer | Sep 9, 2021 | Food, GARDENING
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...
by Donna Balzer | May 3, 2021 | Food, GARDENING, Greenhouse, THE LATEST
“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.