The Latest Blog Posts
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How To Put Your Potager Garden To Bed – 5 Easy Steps
Next year’s fantastic, healthy, organic, kitchen garden begins right here, right now. What you do now to winterise your beds, makes the difference between a great garden year ahead or a frustrating, pest filled one.…
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #3 (Unexpected Hard Frost While We Were Away)
Well, hi! How are you all making out? We are supposed to get snow tomorrow! I am not super stoked about that, hahaha. Yes, it should melt, and we will have some nicer days to…
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4 Ways To Over-Winter Dahlias
I have fallen back in love with dahlias this summer. Don’t get me wrong, I have always liked them and have grown them most every summer since I began my gardening journey, over three decades…
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Rosemary Wreath DIY
This post is a repost from November 28th, 2021 – from The Nitty Gritty Potager This lovely scented rosemary wreath is dead simple to make. Truly! If I can make it, anyone can! I…
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Seven Things Saturday – What to do on this Long Weekend in October
This post is a kind of catch all post of my thoughts. I post 5 Things Friday on my fb page each week, so that is where this idea came from as there will be…
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #2 (Winterizing The Garden)
I’ve been keeping an eye on the forecast as I go about prepping the garden for winter. The snowflakes have disappeared on the long term forecast, but minus degrees are still there, and coming up…
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Ultimate Guide to Planting Garlic Successfully
Updated October 2025. If you are fairly new to growing garlic, or maybe a seasoned grower looking for some tips on how to get bigger bulbs at harvest, these 5 easy steps will make it…
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Clean Out The Garden Quickles (Quick Pickled Vegetables
Ever since I tried this Wedge Salad with avocados and quick pickled onions from Smitten Kitchen, I have been hooked on making quickles from all sorts of vegetables. It is a great way to use…
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The Crunchiest Fridge Dill Pickles You Have Ever Tasted!
We had the family over for dinner on the long weekend, just a casual dinner and get together. Our wee grandies found these pickles that I had just made earlier in the week and ate…
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Green Tomato Chow Chow
We started making this fantastic ‘green tomato relish’ many, many years ago. It has since became a household staple here at home, and with my kids, as well. It is made from our own garden…
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Autumn In The Potager – October Chores
Fall has come to the garden. Everything was green a can be, till we had one frosty night (no damage to the gardens, thankfully). Shortly after that, the trees, shrubs, and perennials slowly began turning…
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Raspberry Sourdough Crumble Bars Recipe
Raspberries are my most favourite berries, with blueberries coming in as a very close second. Jammed, fresh eating, or baked into desserts, raspberries are my number one. We do not have a large patch yet……
June In The Potager – Watering
Well, we had about two weeks of absolutely stunning weather, broke records all over the place… and then Junuary happened. It has been so cold for the past week. We have struggled to hit the high teens during the day and nighttime temps remain low. So low that I had to put the heater back…
Sunday Potager Ramblings #87
Well, hi there. Happy Sunday! How are you all doing? Do you ever get grumpy for no particular reason that you can figure out? I had a day like that yesterday. Everything was annoying me to no end, even the radio stations. It was too loud, too much singing, too much talking, lol… there was…
Sunday Potager Ramblings #86 (Outdoor Entertaining)
You all, our weather is beyond wild. We have gone from heat warmings down to single digits! The other day, my weather station told me it was 35°C (95°F) on the back deck and 33° in the greenhouse. Today is only 5 (41°F) degrees on the deck and 6 in the greenhouse. Oh. Em. Gee.…
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