I loved this video on stinging nettle by Jim McDonald! I have a nice nettle patch in my yard that I planted a few years ago. I knew it was a wonderful tonic for iron levels during my pregnancies but Jim explains many more uses that I wasn't aware of. #blog #herbs #stingingnettle Talking Nettles with [...]
Square foot gardening is one of my long time favorite garden methods! I love how it maximizes your space, and done right the companion planting benefits are wonderful. Check out this great article from Mother Earth News.#blog #gardening #squarefootgardening Reshared post from +MOTHER EARTH NEWS Anyone can grow $700 worth of food in just 100 square feet. Here's how: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Square-Foot-Gardening-Food.aspx If more [...]
It’s been a crazy year and while I don’t really do New Year Resolutions, I do like to take time through out the year to look at what has been working well and what could use some tweaking. We have had 4 garden seasons in a row that were extremes in temperature, rainfall or drought. [...]
The weather has been quite cool lately. In fact we have had to use the wood stove on and off for a few weeks now! We’ve had the odd nice day, but over all it’s been rainy, windy and cool. One night recently it went down to 5C. I don’t think we had a frost, [...]
Oh goodness, it is terribly hot outside today! The radio is saying our heat index is 41C and it might climb higher yet. Good news is there is a cold front coming through today and we might get some rain. Hopefully not the bad storms they are talking about though. The down side, although it’s [...]
Goodness it’s been a little while since I’ve posted. It’s amazing how the time can just fly by isn’t it? We’ve been very busy with renovations, decluttering and of course the gardens! The back room that was originally a summer kitchen, we started renovating a few years ago. We had planned to turn it back [...]
Wow has it ever been hot for the past week, but the last few days have been the worst. I hear tomorrow will be bad to. With the humidity it feels like it’s 40C. I don’t do well with humid weather, I don’t know how all my southern friends do it. lol The weekend before [...]
Until yesterday we had been in drought conditions on the homestead. Last year was a drought year, then with little snow cover we came into spring with so little rain. Thankfully the rain clouds came in very early on Friday and it has just cleared up a few hours ago. I’m expecting lots of growth [...]
Beating the weeds is always a challenge for gardeners. I watched a video by Imstillworkin a little while ago and she showed how she weeded her garden. One of the tools she showed in her video was a mini hoe made using a dandelion digger. She bent the end on an angle, and it works [...]
Well last night the temperatures dropped down to about 2C. Hubby picked up some more floating row cover/frost blanket and we finished covering everything up. Thankfully we did not have any frost, but I’m glad to have the plants protected anyway. Tonight is only suppose to go down to 6C and after that it looks [...]
