What to Plant in October for a Winter Harvest
Many beginner gardeners believe the gardening season ends in September. They stop planting, put away their tools, and wait for spring. But here’s the truth — in mild climates like …
Vegetable Gardening
Take 2: How to recognise good soil
Soil is the basis for gardening. When the soil in your vegetable garden is healthy you will have good results in your garden. Healthy soil What is healthy soil like? …
Start your vegetable garden in only three weeks time.
What could you do to become more self sustainable? Well, start your own vegetable garden. These are not easy times, things are not as they used to be and nobody …
Float Gardening in British Columbia
A guest post written by Margy Lutz. Margy describes her life on a float Cabin Home on Powell Lake in Coastal British Colombia. She has a very special float garden. …
Where to start your vegetable garden, some things to consider.
The first step dealing with when you want to start a vegetable garden is where to start your vegetable garden. Picking the right spot requires a bit of time. In …
How to Analysing the soil from your vegetable garden.
In this blog we will look into how you can find out what type of soil you have and what pH and nutritional value your garden soil has. We will …
Sweet Basil, all you need to know to grow it.
Sweet Basil is an easy, straight forward plant to grow. In this blog you will find all the things you need to know for planning, companion planting, use and storage …
About the soil in your vegetable garden, what you need to find out.
Let’s go deeper into the soil matter. In this next chapter you will see what you need to find out about the soil in your vegetable garden. Soil… What is …
Chop and drop in the vegetable garden, how to do it.
Chop and drop is a way to create good soil in your garden for growing vegetables. In our vegetable garden I use green manure to chop and drop. It is …
Growing Asparagus
When wanting to grow a vegetable cash crop why not choose a sexy one? Figs are supposedly the most erotic fruit, but its vegetable compeer is without doubt the asparagus. …