This month’s gardening experience has been a challenging one. With little rain and a lot of hot sunny days, our garden is looking a little toasted! We have watered quite often, but it has been disappointing. We decided to dig up our garden plot at the community garden early. We did not get much, but…
Category: In Our Garden
Our City Homestead’s July Garden Update
Throughout July, the garden has actually been doing fairly well. It has been quite hot with some cloud and a bit of rain, but we still have had to water quite often. The community garden is in an open field alongside a walking trail and has no shade in any part of the day, so…
Our City Homestead’s June Garden Update
This month has been fairly hot with a few stormy nights, but not a lot of good gentle rain to soak the ground. Most days are around 31C/87F so we are needing to water much more often. The dirt in our community garden plot needs constant weeding because of the oats growing in it since…
May’s Garden Update
Happiness is the sun shining and digging in the dirt! The sun is warm and the cool breeze is welcome on this lovely summery day. We had a bunch of weeds to pick before we could finish planting the dill and carrots. In our backyard, we planted 2 more rhubarb plants (Canada Red and Strawberry…
How to Build a Simple Garden Box
We made these quick and easy garden boxes on the weekend and they are so simple to do, even kids can make them! Originally, my daughters decided that they wanted to have their very own mini garden plot where they could plant their own goodies, weed, water and look after it by themselves and then…
Welcome to Our 2021 Garden
Welcome to the 2021 gardening season!! We have our garden plot once again in the community garden and we are ready to plant a variety of vegetables to enjoy this summer as well as to preserve for the upcoming winter. We are so excited to get back gardening — it really is therapeutic and wonderful…
Starting Garden Seeds
Here in central Alberta, we tend to have short growing seasons. Because of this, it’s important to start some seeds early in order to have a successful garden harvest!! My girls decided to sprout some seeds like tomato, pumpkin, corn, peppers, watermelon and cucumbers while I decided to just toss the seed into the starting…
