Growing Together: How Gardening with Kids Can Connect Children To Their Food Gardening with kids offers a hands-on, engaging way for young children to connect with their food and fostering a deeper appreciation for what they eat. Involving kids in gardening not only provides a fun outdoor activity but also educates them about nature, responsibility,… [Read More]
Mid-Season Garden Lessons
This year has already been an interesting gardening season! Here are my thoughts as we’re halfway through the growing season. Don’t Let Everything Go To Seed I mean you definitely can, but just know that it may spell trouble for next year. You may remember my dill saga last year, but this year the struggle… [Read More]
Three Seed Starting Mistakes
Three Seed Starting Mistakes It’s the time to year to start thinking about starting your seeds inside, and I wanted to share some of the most common reasons that you may have issues with it. Using Old Seed Using seeds that are past their prime is a common reason for poor germination rates and lack… [Read More]
December Movie Club: Fantastic Fungi
I’m so excited to announce that our movie club pick for December will be Fantastic Fungi! I first watched this movie in theatres, back in November of 2019 (when we were still able to go to the theatres!), and it was mind-blowing and absolutely amazing. I’m THRILLED that I’ll be encouraging others like you to… [Read More]
Why “NPK” Sucks
NPK is a really common phrase and idea that you’ll hear a lot about in gardening. I’ll explain a little about what it is, before we talk about why I think it kind of sucks. NPK is important to understand when it comes to fertilizer. Most fertilizers are spelled out based on what they contain… [Read More]
Why You Should Buy a Greenhouse
Having a greenhouse has absolutely transformed our growing season and I wish we’d had one sooner! Here are my top reasons for why I think you should save up to buy a greenhouse! It Lengthens Your Growing Season We bought a super cheap little heater online and used it to heat our greenhouse in the… [Read More]
Warm Weather Perennials in Colder Zones
One downside of living in garden zone 4a in Calgary is that we don’t get a ton of length to our growing season. This can really limit what we’re able to grow outside and many regular varieties even need to be “shorter season” choices to ensure we get maximum yield. This is also all dependent… [Read More]
Why I Love Sprouting
I don’t know if you’re like me, but I’m feeling DESPERATE to get some fresh greens into my diet! However, it’s currently -20C out, so sprouting is a great winter option to provide us some greens even in the middle of the winter. Sprouts are the first stage of seedling development, so we aren’t letting… [Read More]