Growing 101
Sustainability is the ability to maintain a balance between all elements within the equation. Sustainability, as it relates to the garden, is the concept of working the land without damaging the soil and surrounding occupants.
Your Harvesting Calendar Spring Summer Fall “Be patient and wait for due harvest.” Lailah Gifty Akita The best part of vegetable gardening has to be the harvest. There’s just nothing like finally being able to
Planting Seeds or Buying Plants: The Pros and Cons By Rob Sproule Cost Variety Ease Pride Growth It is the modern planter’s dilemma: begin early and grow your favourite flowers and foods from seed, or
Dos and Don’ts for Freezing your Harvest By Rob Sproule Why Freeze the Excess Freezing 101 Blanching “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel Why Freeze the
Training Tomatoes: How to Run a Sugar Factory By Rob Sproule Before you cut Tomato Behaviour Rules of Thumb Troubleshooting “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a
Synthetic VS Organic Fertilizers: Who will Win? By: Rob Sproule To Organic or Not to Organic How Organic Fertilizers Work How Synthetic Fertilizers Work Most Effective Organic Fertilizers “If the grass on the other side
Best New Edibles for 2017 By: Rob Sproule The New Gardening Tomato ‘Chocolate Sprinkles’ Thyme ‘Spicy Orange’ Pepper “˜Bhut Jolokia’ Cucumber ‘Salad Bush’ Kale ‘Prizm’ ” Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
Growing Asparagus in Alberta By: Rob Sproule Asparagus 101 The Art of Harvesting Good and Good For You Fresh asparagus is a short-season wonder that travels across our dinner plates like a shooting star. It’s
Container Gardening”¦with Potatoes? By: Rob Sproule Spuds in Pots The Secret of Hilling When to Harvest We love our spuds, but we don’t necessarily love all the space they take up in our garden. Potatoes
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners By: Rob Sproule What is a Kitchen Garden, anyway? How to Get Started What’s Hot & What’s Not Want more freshness in your cooking? Kitchen gardening is the art of growing
Foolproof Edibles by Rob Sproule I talk to two kinds of people in the greenhouse: those who grow their own veggies, and those who would like to. Usually, the only thing stopping those
Seed Potato Basics by Rob Sproule Okay, we all know that we’re never going to see a potato plant on the cover of a glossy gardening magazine. They’re never going to be the “next
Growing Broccoli and Cauliflower from Seed by Rob Sproule Broccoli is one of the most vitamin rich vegetables we can grow. They are overflowing with vitamin A and C, especially when eaten raw.
Growing Figs: The Cure for the Common Houseplant by Rob Sproule When you live in a cold climate like ours, it’s easy to think it’s futile to try and grow anything edible after the snow
Growing Carrots & Beets by Rob Sproule Watch videos on How to grow your own food Here Both beets and carrots are ideal for small space Alberta gardens. They thrive in our cool spring
Growing Peas & Beans by Rob Sproule Watch videos on How to grow your own food Here When humans decided to stop following mammoths around and starting throwing seeds into the ground for food,
Growing Broccoli and Cauliflower from Seed by Rob Sproule Broccoli is one of the most vitamin rich vegetables we can grow. They are overflowing with vitamin A and C, especially when eaten
Grow Your Own Onions by Rob Sproule Onions are one of the world’s most ancient vegetables. Bronze age archaeological sites in Asia have revealed traces of onion cultivation alongside figs and dates. The
Grow Your Own Peppers and Eggplant By: Rob Sproule From Seed to Seedling From Seedling to Harvest Harvesting and Uses The vegetables that need to be seeded indoors the earliest tend to be tropical varieties
Growing Watermelon from Seed by Rob Sproule Watermelons are a marquis fruit that have the unfortunate reputation of being impossible to grow in Alberta. Nothing is impossible if you know the tricks! The
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