How Do You Get Lemon Trees Through Winter?
First the good news. Lemons trees can freeze and they won’t die. Now the bad news. If you bring a lemon tree indoors after it gets a chill outside it will most likely lose all its leaves.
Ready For Garden Disasters: Response, Recovery, Restoration
Racoons, Rats and Snow in September. Three disasters for gardeners and what you can do to bring your garden back from the brink.
2019 Tomato Trial Results
So it is late July and I am returning from a week away and when I come home I am in for a big surprise! The tomatoes in my big 16 x 20 foot greenhouse are literally falling off the plants! And this means one thing….
Biochar for Home Gardeners in Canada
Biochar is a friend of the garden and a positive addition to soil. It’s there when you aren’t even thinking about it and it helps you get the best veggie garden ever. Permanently. Among various types of Biochar the professionally produced Airterra Soilmatrix Biochar has been approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency because of it’s consistent and reliable characteristics. If you want to try Biochar, why not try the approved brand? Now available on Vancouver Island.
2019 Great Potato Experiment – in Rootpouch Grow Bags
Potatoes are cheap to buy so why make room to grow them at all? Because they are so heavily sprayed in commercial production and the difference in flavour and texture between home grown and store bought is just incredible. So even if the only space you have is under a tree or on a patio, consider growing your own potatoes next year. I am surprised by the results of my potato experiments in 2019. This is not what I expected at all. I have been growing potatoes in bags, pots and the ground for years. Over time I discovered I grow better potatoes in grow bags than I do in the soil so this year I wanted to compare various additions to the grow bags so I can save money and grow better food faster. Ordinary crops grown in extraordinary ways!
Why I Am Peeling Garlic This Year
So just to be clear I am not in jail and I do not have that much free time on a daily basis but I do have a lot of those piddly little garlic cloves because my garlic self seeds all over my garden and sometimes I don’t see it right away until the plants are grown and are ready to pull. So I do that – I pull it. And then in fall and winter I peel as I go – using it up in my kitchen. I love garlic. But when the cloves are small you have to peel two or three to get enough for a recipe.
