How to store a cold frame during the summer.
The biggest pain about having things that only serve one purpose for one season is where to put the stupid thing when that purpose and or season is over. Like mittens. Or men. I had high hopes for my...
View ArticleHow to store Carrots & Beets
Want more STUFF like this? Get my posts emailed to you daily. I love this time of year in Canada. I know I profess to hate fall, but really I don’t. What I don’t like is a … Continue reading →
View ArticleLong term produce storage. How well does it work?
5 or 6 months ago I stuck my hands in a patch of dirt and pulled out all of my vegetables. Today I’m doing the same thing. Last September I wrote a post on How to store Carrots and … Continue...
View ArticleWant to Grow Sweet Potatoes? Now’s the time to start!
I’m having a LOT of trouble focusing on my posts these days. It happens. As soon as there’s anything that can be grown, seeded, started, planted or propagated I can’t be trusted to do anything else....
View ArticleTop 10 Flowers for a Cutting Garden
Mainly the greatest piece of advice you’re going to get from this post is that you do NOT Google “How to care for big hairy balls”. If you find that is all the advice you need for one day you’re free …...
View ArticleStrawberry plant decoys
I’ve never had much luck growing strawberries. Mainly I think it’s because I’ve never planted them. I’m not saying I’ve never had strawberry plants in my possession but I’ve never actually planted...
View ArticleI’m a Jackass. No really. I am actually a Jackass.
How to make and use a DIY soil grader. photo by Leo Muzzin DIY soil grader! What you need. A wood pallet with most of the wood removed. A couple of ropes. The ability to act like an Ass. Or horse. …...
View ArticleGive your tomatoes a weave.Pruning and supporting tomatoes.
Please enjoy this photo of me literally smiling up at nothing. I am not looking at anything or anyone. I am alone in my garden but wanted a photo of me with my tomatoes for the blog but when I …...
View ArticleVegetable Garden Tips & Tricks.
Welcome to my garden. This post isn’t for you fancy people who buy your broccoli in the store like some sort of aristocrat. It’s for the rest of us. The common folk who grow our own broccoli,...
View ArticleGift recommendation: A Gift for almost anyone.Brix refractometer
From now until December I’m going to be giving you the odd piece of unsolicited advice on what I’d like for Christmas. Today I’m telling you about the first thing I’d like. So go ahead and add me to...
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MY ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MAKING MAPLE SYRUP
I am about to tell you the secret to living a happy life. The secret to making sure you get everything you want and don’t attract anything you don’t. The secret to making maple syrup, baking bread,...
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10 SEED STARTING TIPS
EVERY year. Every, single, year I am stunned that this works. Take a seed, stick it in some dirty, old, soil then watch it sprout into a plant within days. That seed may have been sitting around your...
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NOW’S THE TIME TO TURN YOUR PINK HYDRANGEAS BLUE.
The color of your hydrangea flowers is determined by the acidity of the soil they’re planted in. That is it. That’s the only reason. So if you wander into Costco looking to buy yourself some pillow...
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I CAN’T MAKE A PAIR OF GUCCI LOAFERS BUT I SURE CAN MAKE POTTING SOIL.
I want a pair of summer Gucci moccasins. I really want a pair of summer Gucci moccasins. I check on Ebay and Etsy and high end consignment shops for Gucci moccasins. Sometimes I find them. And then...
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5 VEGETABLE GARDENING TRICKS TO TRY.
I don’t know why not a single one of you stopped me from renting another community plot when I said I was getting an extra one this year. I now have two 40′ x 20′ garden plots to take care … Continue...
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6 TYPES OF APPLES FROM ONE TREE? MY LOVER HENRI WILL *ADORE* THIS.
If I lived in France I’d have fields and fields of vegetable gardens, rock walls, a French lover and a reasonable sized chateau surrounded by a fence made from espaliered apple trees. Yes I would....
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I’LL NEVER GROW TOMATOES ANY OTHER WAY THAN THIS.
Dear Florida Weave, You suck. Dear Tomato Cage, You suck. Dear Weird Spiraly Wire thing, You super-suck. Dear String Method, I love you with all of my heart. You do not, nor will you ever suck....
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CONTROLLING THE DREADED POWDERY MILDEW.
There it is. The dreaded powdery mildew. Be GONE! Be GONE I say! That didn’t work at all. Although it might have worked on my favourite jeans because I can’t find those. Since jumping up …...
View ArticleHOW RAISING A VEGETABLE IS LIKE RAISING A BABY. Plus the winner of the...
Anyone can plant a seed, but not everyone can grow a garden. Why? Because there isn’t a monster, insect with disease dripping fants trying to rip that seed out of your hand when you’re trying to...
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I SPENT 5 MONTHS GROWING SWEET POTATOES. WHO GOT THEM? THE VOLES OR ME?
The humble sweet potato. A 100 calorie root that tastes more like candy than a potato. Not to be confused with the Yam, a similar looking, but drier vegetable grown mainly in Africa and Asia, the...
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