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Growing Under Cover by Niki Jabbour (Storey Publishing, 216 pp., 2020, $24.95) by Susan Mulvihill I’ve known for several months that Niki Jabbour’s new book, Growing Under Cover, would be coming out in December 2020 and have been so excited to read it! I’m a huge fan of hers: she lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she gardens year-round despite […]
Read moreIt’s time for my next video and boy was it chilly while I was filming it! I thought it’d be good to give you a garden update showing what’s happening in our veggie garden, a composting experiment I’m doing in one of the beds, how the plants in our little hoop house are coming along, a recommendation of own-root (non-grafted) […]
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What would you say if I told you it’s possible to plant specially-prepared containers with seeds and put them outside? Right when where it’s snowy and/or rainy for the rest of the winter? That sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But winter sowing is a viable, no-fuss way to start seeds. It just happens to be the topic of this week’s video […]
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Perhaps I caught your attention with today’s topic, eh? After all, we gardeners love saving money in the garden, right? You can learn more about this in my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Saving money in the garden. (or you can read my column lower in this post) On July 12, I posted a question on my Facebook […]
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I get a lot of questions about how I use my hoop house and greenhouse. Because of that, I felt it should be the topic for one of my garden columns. Well, today’s the day! Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Hoop houses and greenhouses help extend garden season. (you can read my column lower in this post) […]
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Every so often, I mention the hoop house in my garden. It seems like the least I could do is give you an update on the vegetables growing inside it. I’m growing ‘Vates’ kale, 3 kinds of lettuce, spinach and — amazingly enough — celery. More on that in a moment. The origin of our hoop house (For a quick […]
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Now that fall is here, that means it’s time to move our hoop house. Then we can put in the last of the winter garden. Some of you might not be familiar with this. Even though we live in USDA zone 5, I can still grow vegetables year-round, without any supplemental heating. More on that in a moment. I thought […]
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Even though I garden in zone 5, I have learned how to garden through the winter months. And that’s without the use of supplemental heat! Yes, this really is possible. You can learn how I do this in today’s garden column about growing a winter garden. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Choose the right crops and covers […]
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Our winter has been unseasonably mild for the most part. In December, we did have a spell of some very cold temperatures. I was sure it wiped out my lettuce crop in the hoop house. Well, surprise surprise! It’s back so it’s time for a winter garden update. I was certain the lettuce plants were toast. They certainly looked like […]
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I did a recent post showing how my winter garden is doing. I thought a video would be even more helpful. I’m a very visual learner and perhaps you are, too! This little garden is located inside our hoop house. So let’s jump right into the video, then I’ll give you some additional background: During the video, I mentioned a […]
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