General Blog Posts

Garden Update: November 2024

While stuff has stopped growing in the garden for weeks now, we’re still busy wrapping up the tail end of ...

Garden Update: October 2024

Things have been a bit quiet around the blog lately. That’s partly due to some employment changes (I took on ...

Garden Update: September 2024

While it seems this slow start to garden season this year delayed everything, it's yet to be seen if it ...

Garden Update: August 2024

What a difference one month makes! In the last monthly update, I wrote about how this year is not a ...

Making Use of Scraps

Gardening, especially on a large scale, means creating a lot of organic waste. While there are some plants where the ...

Garden Update: July 2024

Every year, my husband says something like "this is not a good year for the garden". It's either too hot ...

Garden Update: June 2024

After getting through the garden hibernation period—AKA winter—life is starting to appear in our yard again. Many, many years ago, ...

Garden Update: December 2023

It's been an unusual winter so far for Winnipeg. We've had very little snow. For quite a while, it was ...

Garden Update: October 2023

With an unusually warm October for Winnipeg, our gardening projects have continued a week or two longer than they normally ...