Do you love growing lettuce each year in your garden, but you're looking to save some money on seeds? Maybe you love the variety you grew this year and want to grow it again year after year after year. Lucky for you, lettuce is an easy plant for seed-saving! If you want to ... Continue Reading
Must-Have Equipment for Home Canning
You've decided you want to start canning & preserving food at home--hurray! But if you don't know anyone who wants to pass down their used canning equipment, the start-up costs can add up. What do you absolutely need for canning? What can you live without? And what ... Continue Reading
The Beginner’s Guide to Home Canning: What You Need to Know
You've grown the garden, harvested the vegetables, and are dreaming of canning all that lovely produce to last over the winter. Or maybe you've bought some peaches from the fruit truck, or collected raspberries from your local fruit farm. Whatever your canning dreams are ... Continue Reading
The 5 Easiest Cut Flowers for Seed Saving
I love growing an annual cut flower garden from seed, but the costs can quickly add up. Every year, I spend well over $200 on flower seeds--and that's after I try to pare down my choices! Over the last couple of years, I've been saving seeds from more and more of the flowers that ... Continue Reading
How to Grow a Fall Garden in a Short Growing Season
Have you ever wanted to grow a fall garden but thought it was impossible because you live in an area with a growing season of 90-100 days and often get early frosts in September? I garden in Zone 3b near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, and I'm ... Continue Reading
5 Easy Annual Flowers for Beginner Seed Savers
What's the easiest way you can make a dent in your gardening budget? Saving seeds! It's so easy to save seeds from cut flowers and other annual flowers that you can use next year. While some seeds require a little more know-how than others to save, I've compiled some of ... Continue Reading
How to Harvest and Preserve Onions
Harvesting and preserving onions is one of the easier late-summer-early-fall gardening chores that you will do. If done right, you'll have onions well into March. In this short blog post, I'll take you through the steps for harvesting and preserving onions and answer some ... Continue Reading
The 2 Step Solution to Control Powdery Mildew
Your garden is doing well, and you're even starting to harvest some vegetables when suddenly you see some weird little white spots on your pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, or zucchini. You shrug it off, thinking it's probably no big deal. A few days later, it has spread to more ... Continue Reading
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