by GHart | Mar 24, 2016 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
Excel as a garden planner? For those who utilize square foot gardening of any sort, excel can become an essential and easy tool to design, manage and track your garden. Square foot gardening is divided into equal squares, excel is a bunch of squares. Excel allows all...
by GHart | Oct 23, 2015 | Northern Gardening, Recipes
Storing sugar/pie Pumpkins Sugar or Pie pumpkins are small sweet varieties of pumpkins meant specifically for eating and well, pies. These pumpkins will keep quite good for a few months in a dry cool place in your basement, however what if you want them ready to use?...
by GHart | May 26, 2015 | Northern Gardening
Most of NW Ontario is considered growing hardiness zone 2a or 1b meaning we don’t have a great growing season here, however it is possible to grow a number of vegetables throughout the area. For starters , the growing season is only between80 and 105 days around these...
by GHart | Jul 31, 2014 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
With a late start and cool weather here, we’ve only had a couple 30+ degree days, the gardens are slowly coming along. Of course despite the cool weather, the cool weather plants still bolt as soon as the sun shines. I am betting on a late fall as well as...
by GHart | May 13, 2014 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
So, with a proliferation of “store” pre-made garden boxes with some assembly required maybe ist time to see how easily and cheap making one the old fashioned way is. I assume you have access to a drill and screws or hammer and nails. That really is all...
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...
