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Garden Series: Harvesting your Bounty!

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Harvesting your garden is the most fun part! Here in Edmonton, harvest season is nearing its end, but in other places, it continues. I wanted to chat with you guys today about how you can make the most of your harvest, keep your veggies good as long as possible, and what you can still have in the garden this time of year. Tomatoes are at the end of their growing cycle at this point in the year, unless you’re in a place where it is consistently over 15 degrees Celsius at night still. Otherwise, it is time to cut all of your fruit off, even if it appears immature, and put it in a warm, sunny window. They’ll ripen, I promise. I have a couple of posts coming up about how to use your eight million tomatoes when they all ripen at once. (They always do for me… so we…

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Garden Series: July Update and Caring for your Garden

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Hello! A return to the garden series! We have now fully weeded the garden twice, and enjoyed our first full harvest of a planted vegetable. Our french-type radishes grew and were picked- in the VeggiePods, it made room for another planting of basil. In the garden, they were in the carrot row to promote spacing of the carrot seeds. They grew beautifully and were super sweet. I roasted some on the bbq. Because of the rain and poor weather thus far this year, everything is pretty behind. We experienced one crop failure- romaine lettuce. We’ve planted again and are now watching quite a few heads grow. The beans, peas, squashes are all quite delayed and while flowering, have not produced much yet. Even our little herbs are slow to grow. The real crop winner thus far is kale and lettuce! The veggie pods are happy and lush, and hard to…

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Garden Series: Planting your Garden

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Hi Guys! This is actually an important post regarding how to choose what type of plants to plant a seeds, which to get pre-started, and how many plants you might actually need for your family’s needs. What to Buy Pre-Started In northern Alberta, we only get great growing weather from June-September, which isn’t very long to raise certain vegetables from seeds unless you have a lot of indoor or greenhouse space to start them early. This isn’t feasible for most people, so we usually purchase pre-started plants for: RosemaryAny TomatoAny pepper We will also occasionally purchase a basil plant started, and then plant seeds around it so that we have basil sooner rather than later. Admittedly, this may be related to my love of caprese salad and fresh tomato sauce. All of our pre-started plants are put in pots, as these types of plants are often more sensitive to wind…

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