by GHart | Jan 3, 2019 | Foraging, North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening
Lambs Quarters – get your leafy green fix this summer There is a plant, so easy to grow its already grows in your yard, in your garden and pretty much anywhere it can. It grows fast, creates hundreds of thousands of seeds from each plant and you probably spend...
by GHart | Jan 15, 2017 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening
Heirloom Seeds Heirloom seeds quite simply are seeds that have been, over generations, bred to withstand the soil conditions, climate and local diseases and conditions and to maximise their yield under local conditions. Some other great features of heirlooms are they...
by GHart | May 12, 2014 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening, SFG Examples
Planted my “privacy” sugar snap peas fence. I have a 1×10 foot fence with a five foot vertical trellis which acts as a privacy fence for my fire pit. The Sugar Snap peas easily grow the full height of the fence very quickly. So with privacy, a wind...
by GHart | May 5, 2014 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening
The following are what they call hardy to semi-hardy plants I regularly plant in the garden. They are cold weather friendly and can be planted directly into the garden as soon as the soils are workable down to a foot or two (Frost comes out top down). Seeds will need...
by GHart | May 4, 2014 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening
Added a page for growing squash (summer/winter) to the north hardy plants list. It can be directly located here
by GHart | Jun 20, 2013 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening, SFG Examples, Square Foot Gardening
So you haven’t started your garden? Want to know what you can still plant? Well for the next week or so you can plant pretty much any transplants. Most people are probably planting this weekend. Seeds are a different story – just look at the days to...
