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
How to Make Chokecherry Jelly
Just as the Saskatoon berries start to dry out, a new prairie berry emerges: the chokecherry! Chokecherries are very astringent, so they don't taste good when you eat them straight off of the tree. However, when you extract the juice and add copious amounts of sugar, they're ... Continue Reading
Delicious Maple Spice Crab Apple Butter
Do you have a favourite smell? One that brings back all your favourite memories? Of crisp autumn days or happy times in the kitchen? If I could pick one smell, it would be crab apples. Their pretty red pink might also win for best colour too, but I digress. One of my ... Continue Reading
3 Ways to Get Rid of Thrips (Plus 1 Method I Haven’t Tried)
As a gardener, all winter long you dream of growing delightful dahlias, stunning snapdragons, and glorious glads. August finally rolls around, your flowers start blooming and all of a sudden you discover these weird little line-shaped creatures. They are everywhere! And, in some ... Continue Reading
The Three Best Ways to Juice Crab Apples
There's nothing like the taste of homemade crab apple juice, and you can't buy it in stores. If you love crab apple juice, the only way to get it is to make it yourself. And while it's a lot of work to pick the apples, make the juice, and can it, it is definitely worth ... Continue Reading
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