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...
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.
Time to Seed and Direct Sow Seeds
I grow tomatoes, and so much more. Our family eats food from our garden in Qualicum Beach every month of the year and many of the things we eat, like Sorrel, are already sprouting and growing. But March is tomato month. This is the time to buy and start seeds indoors so you have your own harvest this summer.
