Garden Gate
Gardening & Growing: Dig into the dirt and seasonal garden notes, planning ideas, and the beauty of growing your own food, flowers and native plants. Plus, all the garden fails of course!
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Seed Snails & Jelly Rolls: A Space-Saving Garden Hack
A few weeks ago, I shared my DIY Milk Jug Greenhouses with you all. Quick update: nothing has sprouted quite yet! We are still dealing with freezing temperatures here, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed for some signs of spring very soon. In… Continue reading
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A DIY Greenhouse
Garden season is back! Yes, there’s still snow on the ground and it will be a while before I can play in the dirt, but the garden planning and seed starting allows me to dream about my upcoming garden season.… Continue reading
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A Piece of the Garden in Winter
One of the garden goals Hannah and I have for over the winter season is to find a way for our mint plants to come back every year. As easy as it would be to achieve this goal, we want… Continue reading
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Potato Flop: A Spud-tacular Disappointment
This growing season, I had a bountiful potato harvest of 3 whole potatoes. Worst part: this harvest came from two seed potatoes. This past winter, I learned about planting potatoes in giant pots and bags. I loved the idea of… Continue reading
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Better Late Than Okra
My okra missed the memo on the growing season! 😂 It started strong indoors and come the nice spring weather, the okra even transplanted well into the garden. Only to get eaten in summer by some illusive creature. Now this… Continue reading
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Planting Garlic
Before the cold creeped in, I wanted to plant my garlic. Garlic requires a “cooling off” period before it starts to grow. The colder weather and upcoming snow was perfect for the garlic bulbs. My sister-in-law saves her garlic bulbs… Continue reading
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Sharing Coneflowers
Jo and I both share a love for growing vegetables and flowers. Both of us have had success and failures even when we share the same seeds. Last season, we bought coneflowers to plant in our backyard. Not only beautiful… Continue reading
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First Successful Tomato Harvest
Harvesting from my garden is one of my favourite times of the year. Not only can I avoid the grocery store, but also enjoying a meal with produce grown by myself is a great feeling. When I started having an… Continue reading
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Attempt to Save Seeds
This year being the first year that I planted more annual flowers (cosmos, zinnias, calendulas, African daisies and marigolds), I wanted to try seed saving. The marigolds seem to be quite successful and abundant (even after I sort through all… Continue reading
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Cilantro -> Stinging Nettle
When cilantro turns into stinging nettle…. When you go to harvest some cilantro that you planted and can’t figure out why it’s so prickly….. Only to decide that you need to do some research because it certainly wasn’t that way… Continue reading
Grace Between the Fields 