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Gardening — cold weather gardening

How to dry and save seeds

Posted by Erin Colborn on

How to dry and save seeds
Today I wanted to talk about how we save our seeds around here and how you can too at home.  It involves very little equipment output on your part by simply using everyday household tools. This post was probably inspired by the fact that we have finally gotten around to getting the majority of our seeds dried, cleaned and stored for the season, believe me did I have the biggest sigh of relief because this task is a huge undertaking for us! Of course for the homegrower saving seeds is very doable and relatively simple!

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Get Your Garden Winter Ready in Simple Steps

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Get Your Garden Winter Ready in Simple Steps
Here are the simple steps we take to get our garden ready for winter.

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Saving Seeds Series-Fleshy Fruited Plants

Posted by Erin Colborn on

Saving Seeds Series-Fleshy Fruited Plants
It's fall y'all and many northern gardeners, like myself, are beginning to wind down our harvest, put our beds to sleep and begin winter prep. You may also be thinking about looking ahead to next year, which means you might have one thing on your mind already-seeds! Did you know that as well as purchasing seed, you also have a bank of seeds right there in your hands, possibly in your garden still? If you have never saved seeds, are new to seed saving or need a refresher this post is for you! 

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Growing Fruit in Cold Climates

Posted by Erin Colborn on

Growing Fruit in Cold Climates

 Morning, know its been awhile but between Feburary and June is the busy season for us. In this chapter we'll be exploring growing fruits in cold climates. We expirement with alot of season extension techniques but my focus here will crops we can get to harvest without hoophouses and greenhouses. Goji Berry or Wolf Berry is where we'll start, Goji's are one of my favorite fruits and they are incredibly easy to grow. I have had first year Goji's survive highs of 37 celcius and lows of minus 48 celcius. They are incredibly hardy as well as productive. They have...

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Growing Garlic in Northern Canada

Posted by Simon Gaudin on

Growing Garlic in Northern Canada

 As the title implies we have a challenging discussion ahead of us today, growing a crop like garlic in extreme cold! The standard in our part of the world is fall sowing hardneck garlic and spring sowing softneck. Just a quick point of clarification Hardneck varietys are the slower maturing more cold hardy garlic that produce a scape, possibly even a head that will produce small bulbs. Softneck garlic on the other hand is quick to mature, produces no scape, yields more bulbs and needs warmer temperate weather.  We start both hardneck and softneck garlic by doing  a late winter...

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