Planting your very first vegetable garden can be both exciting and scary. You can’t wait to eat fresh vegetables you’ve grown yourself, but you soon realize that there’s so much about gardening you just don’t know. Add in a few incidents of killing houseplants, and it’s enough to ... Continue Reading
A Cut Flower Garden for $100? Yes, It’s Possible!
Do you have a backyard-sized plot that you dream of transforming into a cut flower garden? Are you a flower farmer that's looking to grow cut flowers on a budget? You might be surprised to find out that you can grow a beautiful, blooming, colourful cut flower garden with ... Continue Reading
How to Pick the Best Tomato Varieties for Your Garden
Everyone wants to grow the best-tasting tomatoes or the largest tomato varieties. Tomatoes are the glory plant of the gardening world. But open any seed catalogue, and you’ll quickly be overwhelmed. Finding the best homegrown tomato varieties can feel daunting, especially for ... Continue Reading
How to Grow Eucalyptus for Cut Flowers (Even in a Short Growing Season)
The dream: loads of eucalyptus that you lovingly grew from seed adorning your flower arrangements and wreaths.The reality? Fighting other cut flower growers for seeds the minute a seed company updates its listings, struggling with poor germination and long growing times, then ... Continue Reading
3-Ingredient Homemade Noodles
It’s cold out. We can’t do a lot of gardening or outdoor activities, so it’s the perfect time to dust off those homesteading skills and prep some noodles for the coming year. If you live in a dry, prairie climate like I do in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, winter is the ideal time to ... Continue Reading
5 Things I Wish I Knew as a Wannabe Flower Farmer
Are you a wannabe flower farmer who has long dreamt of making a profit from your cut flower garden? Have you often thought about building a flower farming business from the dirt up, but you’re not sure where to start? It’s not as difficult as you’d think to start making money ... Continue Reading
Top 10 Flowers and Plants for Landscaping
Who doesn’t love perennials that bloom for a long period of time? Those flowers with long-lasting colours that are sure to wow the neighbours and cause an extra spark of happiness each time you walk up to your door? I’m sure I’m not alone in this obsession. These are the kind of ... Continue Reading
How to Landscape Your Front Yard So Your Neighbours are Green with Envy
Everyone wants a front yard that is beautifully landscaped and low-maintenance. At least everyone I talk to does. They want an entrance that turns heads and a front yard that makes neighbours ask “How did she do that?” and “How can I do that?” If you’re dreaming of creating a ... Continue Reading
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