Grow Food Calgary Gets Freebies!

Grow Food Calgary Gets Freebies!

It’s official. Freebies are flowing in for the registrants of Grow Food Calgary and this week we received a really big donation, and it consists of four packages weighing in at 77 lbs. The boxes received contain a total of 150 grow bags – enough for the entire class!

CREATIVE WAYS TO GROW POTATOES

CREATIVE WAYS TO GROW POTATOES

This is all about creative ways to grow potatoes. No space? No problem! Use wire fence planters you can make yourself to expand your growing area right now. Who says your urban farm can’t grow up? Try this method today to increase your harvest in a small area.

MUSHROOMS WILL SAVE BEES

MUSHROOMS WILL SAVE BEES

Do you wish you could change the world? Make a real difference to your friends and family and to the little creatures like bees who seem so innocent, so fragile? I found out last week that we can do it. We can change our world by changing our garden.

But it’s not what you think. I am not going to insult you and tell you to plant flowers or herbs to attract pollinators to your yard because if you are on my page you are already a gardener and the plants you grow do exactly that. They attract bees.

CAUL-AMITY IN THE GARDEN. BIG BUST WITH CAULIFLOWER

CAUL-AMITY IN THE GARDEN. BIG BUST WITH CAULIFLOWER

“It’s too heavy grandma” 4 year old grandson Rupert complained when asked to hold my cauliflower for a photo-op last year. I didn’t have the same problem this year, that’s for sure.
I have been gardening and writing about gardening for thirty years so I was basically bragging about growing the biggest and best cauliflower crop ever. Until I flunked out.