by GHart | Feb 28, 2020 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening, Plant of the week
Giant Pumpkins Another great import from the East Coast, other than myself, is the subject of this week’s Garden plant of the week. Atlantic Giant Pumpkins, a particular strain of pumpkin known for its size. Started in Windsor, Nova Scotia (My home town) by...
by GHart | Feb 20, 2020 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening, Plant of the week
Hubbard Squash Hubbard squash can get large, up to 50 pounds, have a delightful taste and an extremely tough outer skin making them ideal for winter storage. Hubbard squash will require a full growing season of 100 days. They will also require room to grow and spread...
by GHart | Feb 17, 2020 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening, Plant of the week
Pollock Tomatoes There is a type of tomato that has been developed for cool, short growing seasons. It is even considered frost resistance. Andy Pollock of Houston, BC developed a variety of tomato over decades in his mountain-based (100m) unheated greenhouse in the...
by GHart | Jun 13, 2019 | Northern Gardening, Square Foot Gardening
Simple Garden boxes A garden box can be anything with sides and open on the bottom: tires, old canoes with holes, bathtubs, window boxes and of course the simple wood box. To start a single simple 2-foot by 2-foot box, you will need an eight-foot length of 2x6...
by GHart | Jun 11, 2019 | North Hardy Species, Northern Gardening
Yes, it likely will grow here! I moved here a little over a decade ago from Nova Scotia where the climate was substantially different than it is here. I moved to the middle of town and had a large, empty back yard. Immediately this blank slate of a yard intrigued me,...
by GHart | May 4, 2019 | Northern Gardening
So its before the first frost, what can I plant? The following are what they call hardy to semi-hardy plants I regularly plant in the garden here in Nipigon. They are cold weather friendly and can be planted directly into the garden as soon as the soils are workable...
