Happy October! We have actually had some nice weather in October which has been great for the peppers and cucumbers. The temperature has been on average +15C/59F with a few days above +20C/68F. Unfortunately, it gets quite cold at night – usually between +1C to +8C/33F to 46F and it will get below 0C/32F in…
Category: In Our Garden
Harvest Week — Harvesting the Garden September 2024
It’s Harvest Week!! We decided to do something fun, and have a whole week of harvest activities!! We made all sorts of delicious fall time drinks like Pumpkin White Hot Chocolate and Harvest Punch and baked goods like Apple Fritter Bread, Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Loaf plus so much more, and we had fun being crafty too!!…
Garden Update – August 2024
Happy August!! It’s hard to believe we are in the last month of summer already! Let me show you around the garden this month. My daughter’s pumpkins are full of blossoms that are about to open! So exciting! Here’s the corn along with squash, potatoes and numerous other vegetables! The silk on the corn is…
Garden Update — July 2024
Happy July!! It’s been a hot month and the garden has grown wonderfully this month!! Having flower pots and garden beds is how we are gardening in the city! Before we had garden beds, we grew vegetables in several different types of gardening pots and we were fortunate enough to garden at a community garden….
Garden Update – June 2024
Happy June!! It’s time for Our City Homestead Garden Update! Even though we live in the city, we can still garden! That’s what our garden updates are all about — to share with you what we are growing in the city and how we are doing that! I am so glad we finally have our…
Welcome to the Gardening Season – May 2024
Happy May!! Welcome to the 2024 Gardening season. I am looking forward to gardening — that’s one of the things I love most about summertime! This year, we opted to not garden at the community garden (it feels a little weird to not return to the community garden after three years), and instead turn our…
September 2023 Garden Update
This month gardening at the community garden has definitely had its challenges. Let me share with you what’s happened this month. September 6 and it has seemed to take forever for the sunflowers to bloom. Looks as though they will soon open and we are looking forward to them blooming. Not only are the seeds…
