If you're a flower farmer looking to make stunning pumpkin centrepieces, a home baker looking for the perfect pie pumpkin, a parent looking for a large pumpkin variety to carve with your kids, or any pumpkin lover in between, you've come to the right place! In this blog post, ... Continue Reading
How to Harvest & Process Fresh Pumpkin
I've had an irrational fear of processing pumpkins for the longest time. It just seemed overwhelming. How would I cut them? Why did the guts have to be so gross to deal with? What do I do with all those seeds? Then, as pumpkin puree climbed to $4 a can (and even higher now in ... Continue Reading
Quick & Easy Ways to Store Your Carrots Until Spring
There are six ways to store carrots for the winter: canning, freezing, pickling, dehydrating, cold storage in a root cellar, and refrigeration. Do it right and you can easily supply yourself with carrots until spring! Some of these ways take more time, effort, or resources ... Continue Reading
How to Grow Bug-Free Brussel Sprouts from Seed
Brussel sprouts can be tricky to grow in a cold climate with a short growing season like Zone 3. They take a long time, are prone to bug pressure, and take up a lot of space. However, the taste of an organic, homegrown brussel sprout roasted to perfection makes it worth ... Continue Reading
How to Grow Garlic in Zone 3 (and Other Cold Climates)
Garlic is an easy to plant vegetable that's perfect for beginners. The catch? If you want to eat garlic in July, you need to plant it in October. Unlike most vegetables, garlic should be planted in the fall instead of spring. But don't worry, the process is really simple! In ... Continue Reading
Garden Fresh Roasted Tomato Sauce
Can I tell you a secret? I don't like tomatoes. But I really wish I did. I long to love a toasted tomato sandwich on homemade bread with a vine-ripened, garden-fresh tomato. For some crazy reason, uncooked tomatoes taste like dirt to me. If you've been following the ... Continue Reading
How to Overwinter Dahlias in Cold Climates
Dahlias are arguably one of the most beautiful cut flowers to grow, whether you're a beginner cut flower farmer or an experienced farmer florist. That being said, they can be one of the trickiest cut flowers to overwinter in cold climates, such as my Zone 3 garden in the Canadian ... Continue Reading
How to Prepare Strawberries for the Winter
It's another one of those rites of passage of learning to garden: killing the strawberries you so desperately wanted to save. Everybody loves strawberries, but nobody likes it when the strawberry plants they invested in last spring die a slow and horrible death over the cold ... Continue Reading
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