
Berry Bonanza: A July 2025 Garden Update
The weather this spring and early summer was a bit weird. It got super hot in the daytime (far too ...

5 Easy Crops for the Beginner Gardener
We recently had some people over and they saw our garden for the first time. Their question — and everyone ...

Summer is Finally Here: A Garden Update for June 2025
It's almost hard to believe that less than a month ago, the ground was all black earth and we were ...

Spring is here! A garden update for May 2025
I think we can finally say it—spring is here and garden season has begun! Normally we wait till the May ...

Preparing for the upcoming garden season (A garden update for April 2025)
Another month and another inch closer to spring. During much of March, the snow had melted and it looked like ...

Garden Update: March 2025
We're having an unseasonably warm couple of months here in Winnipeg. While there is normally a warm spell around this ...

Garden Update: February 2025
As I’m writing this, we are experiencing one of the coldest Februarys that I can remember. Normally at this time ...

Garden Update: January 2025
As I write the first draft of this post, the temperature outside is somewhere around -32 degrees Celsius (-26 F) ...

Garden Update: December 2024
Well, we've finally reached Winter here in Winnipeg. As I'm writing this, the city is digging itself out of a ...