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Continue reading →: Sunday Potager Ramblings #72 (growing eggplants, spring gardens, and family)Happy Sunday! While we have lost a little bit of our spring fervor with the return of the snow, it won’t be long now. Only 25 days till spring!
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Continue reading →: Vegetables I Am Growing In My 2026 Garden (with seed sources)I was asked to post my crops for this summer, plus where I get the seeds from. Here is everything thus far. There are still a couple of things I am looking for, but they are not a necessity, just a want. These are the varieties that you will find…
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Continue reading →: Mid February Notes From The Potting Shed – Pollinator Flowers & FAQ’sThis week in the potting shed is all about pollinator plants, what to start now, getting ready to grow…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Potager Ramblings #71 (Lemon Trees, Create Gifts From Your Garden)Grow gift ideas in your garden. How to grow artichokes, calendula, coneflowers…. This week’s post is so good! Full of garden inspo : )
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Continue reading →: Potager Ramblings #70 (Verbascum, pollinators, potting soil recipe)We are having the most glorious weather. It was plus 17°C (62°F) the other day on our east facing back deck. Gorgeous! This is crazy nice for central Alberta. My brother and I were saying how these post Christmas winter months are going by so much faster with the nice…
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Continue reading →: Notes From The February Potting ShedThis week is all about dahlias, preventing dahlia gall, gladiolas, pruning how-to, tips for starting peppers, workshops… a whole lot to share.
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Continue reading →: Potager Ramblings #69 (Should you be feeding the birds? Growing skirret)This week’s collection of reads from the garden, the home, and the kitchen. Growing skirret?
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Continue reading →: Notes From The Potting Shed (Early February)What to do in the garden and potting shed in February….
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Continue reading →: How To Grow Calendula (aka Pot Marigolds)I love nothing more that adding flowers to my yard and potager. Perennial flowers have their moments, but annual flowers (the kind you plant each year) are my real favourites. Calendula will bloom from early spring through till frost, well into November. In mild winter zones, I have seen it…
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