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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Got a spot youâd like to use to grow food but not sure where to start?
In this episode, we tackle a bare space with hard clay, in zone 3.
Letâs not forget the deer and rabbits. Oh, and thereâs a narrow âhell stripâ thatâs needs to be planted too.
The good news is that there are lots of ways to add edibles to a garden. The way to start is by choosing a creative direction, and then getting started.
We work through two entirely different approaches to this space.
First, we explore a low-maintenance âgrazingâ garden with perennials. Next, we think about how to use a potager style in this space.
For the plant palette weâre including options for:
· Partial sunlight
· Good cold tolerance for perennials (zone 3!)
· Less attractive to deer
· Plants that give options for adding colour, texture, and height
If youâre looking for fruits, vegetables, and other plants that you can grow in the shade, hereâs a post to get you started.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Think your climate is too cold to grow tender fruit?
Find out how this grower harvests peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and moreâŠdespite winter temperatures that can dip to -38°C (-36°F) and a short summer.
In this episode, Donna and Steven chat with Saskatchewan fruit grower Dean Kreutzer.
We talk about:
Fruit adapted to cold climatesUsing unheated greenhouses to grow tender fruit, grapesâŠand figsHeat sinks and insulated tarpsCapturing heat from the groundâwithout an elaborate geothermal heating systemKreutzer and his wife run Over the Hill Orchards in Saskatchewan.
If youâre looking for more on cold-hardy fruit, check out this post on Saskatoon Berries.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Do you have more seeds and plants than you can fit into your garden?
Itâs a common problem for the enthusiastic food gardener!
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about finding more growing space so that you can fit more crops into the same space.
Get ideas for:
Growing in ungardenable spacesâŠlike the root-infested space next to hedgesReducing space used by pathwaysTiering crops in a gardenUsing paved areas, decksâand stairs!If youâre looking for more on garden planning, check out these 7 vegetable garden layout ideas.
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-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. Weâre making the world a better place one garden at a time!
-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.
-->And say hiâwe love to hear what you think!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Want to grow great tomatoes?
With the right transplanting and care, your tomatoes will be off to a great start.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about:
Transplanting tomato seedlingsProtecting transplants from cold spring weatherHow to stake, train, and support tomato plantsPruning tomato suckersWatering and feedingTomato challenges, including pests, diseases, and blossom end rot.If youâre looking for more on how to support tomato plants, check out this article.
-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. Weâre making the world a better place one garden at a time!
-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.
-->And say hiâwe love to hear what you think!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Wondering when to plant vegetables? Not sure what to plant first?
You donât need to plant everything at once.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about when to plant vegetables, and the Canadian tradition of planting the garden over the Victoria Day (May 24) weekend.
(Sometimes it makes senseâŠthough not for all crops in all zones.)
If youâre looking for more on planting vegetables, check out this article on direct seeding.
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-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. Weâre making the world a better place one garden at a time!
-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.
-->And say hiâwe love to hear what you think!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Your vegetable seedlings can look great indoors. Then fall like dominoes in the garden.
If theyâre not hardened off.
But if you harden off seedlings, they stand a much better chance once you plant them in the garden.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about:
What hardening off meansWhy harden off seedlingsHow to harden off seedlingsWhen to harden off seedlingsHarden off seedlings in a greenhouseIf youâre looking for more on growing vegetables from seed, check out post on how to direct seed vegetables.
-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. Weâre making the world a better place one garden at a time!
-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.
-->And say hiâwe love to hear what you think!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Wondering about fruit to grow in a cold climate?
Today we head to Alberta, to find out how to grow saskatoon bushes. Arden Delidais grows in Zone 2âand doesnât get any winter dieback on her saskatoon berries.
Delidaisâ orchard and winery, DNA Gardens, has a number of cold hardy crops including saskatoon berries, apples, plums, rhubarb, currants, and haskaps.
Saskatoon bushes (Amelanchier alnifolia) are native to North America. (South of the border you might hear them referred to as juneberry or shadbush.)
Delidais tells Steve and Donna about:
How to prune saskatoon bushesSaskatoon varietiesSaskatoon pests and diseasesHow to propagate saskatoon berriesHow to use saskatoon fruitIf youâre looking for more on saskatoons, hereâs a guide to growing them.
-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. Weâre making the world a better place one garden at a time!
-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.
-->And say hiâwe love to hear what you think!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Have you tried direct sowing but didnât get good results? Wondering how to direct sow seeds?
Direct sowingâa.k.a. direct seeding or direct plantingâis when we sow seeds straight into the garden. We skip starting transplants indoors.
It gives better results for some cropsâbecause thereâs no transplanting shock. And thatâs great, because it saves you the hassle of growing transplants.
But some crops need extra growing timeâŠand thatâs where transplants make sense. Or sometimes, hot summer weather causes spotty germination outdoors, meaning transplants are a better option.
To ace your direct seeding, you need to know which crops it works withâand how to do it.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about:
Why and when to direct sowWhen it makes sense to grow transplants instead of direct sowingHow to direct sow seedsWhat crops are best for direct sowingIf youâre looking for more ideas for planting your vegetable garden, hereâs an article with 7 Vegetable Garden Layout ideas.
-->Join the 5,000+ gardeners in The Food Garden Gang who stay on top of home food-growing ideas with our weekly e-mail. Weâre making the world a better place one garden at a time!
-->Grab the free e-books: Small-Space Food-Gardening Hacks and Growing Figs in Cold Climates.
-->And say hiâwe love to hear what you think!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Want to harvest more veg from the same amount of space? You can get lots more from a small space by growing in containers. (If you get it rightâŠbut thatâs not difficult!)
If you get these 4 things right, youâre on the road to container gardening success:
The right containerGood soilA suitable locationProper careIn this episode, Donna and Steven share top tips for container gardening success, including choosing pots, selecting soil, finding a suitable spot, and caring for your container vegetables.
If youâre looking for more on container gardening, here are top container garden crops.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Donât miss out on fresh figs just because youâre gardening in a cold climate.
There are many cold-climate fig growers who defy zone boundaries with creative overwintering techniques.
Figs can take quite a bit of cold. Not the extreme cold. A creative gardener gets figs through the winter by moderating the extremes.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about fig-growing tactics for cold climates so that you can harvest figsâeven if you have zone envy!
If youâre looking for more cold-climate fig-growing tips, drop by our fig home page.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Canât get enough pawpaw fruit? Want to grow a pawpaw tree?
If you havenât tried pawpaw fruit, many people describe the flavour of its silky, yellow flesh as tropical.
While itâs the largest fruit native to North America, itâs difficult to find the fruit for sale.
Yet itâs easy to grow.
Thatâs why many gardeners and small farmers plant pawpaw trees.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk with pawpaw expert Adam DâAngelo to get tips on growing pawpaw trees.
We talk about:
Where to grow pawpaw treesPawpaw tree hardiness (yes, there are pawpaw growers in Canada!)Grafting pawpaw treesHow to grow pawpaw from seedPawpaw breedingWhat makes pawpaw a great fruit crop for home gardeners and small farmersDâAngelo is the founder of Project Pawpaw, a crowd-funded pawpaw research and breeding program.
If youâre looking for more on pawpaw, tune into our interview with the Indiana Jones of pawpaw, Neal Peterson, and hear our chat with Toronto pawpaw expert Paul DeCampo.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
When you make only withdrawalsâno depositsâyou eventually end up in overdraft. It works that way at the bank, with friendshipsâand with soil.
And growing crop after crop in a garden is like making withdrawal after withdrawal. The crops use nutrients. Working the soil affects its structure.
Amending soil is like putting money back into the bank. Soil amendments can improve soil structure, soil chemistry, and return nutrients to the soil.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about practical ways home gardeners can improve soil quality with soil amendments.
We discuss different types of manures, making compost, using leaves, wood chips, and common products such as bone meal, peat moss, and blood meal.
If youâre looking for more on soil, check out this post about how and when to use wood ash in the garden.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Looking for herb garden layout ideas?
If youâre planning a herb garden, there are many ways to add herbs to the landscape. You can have a stand-alone herb garden, a herb lawn, herbs mixed with paving, use herbs as bedding plants, weave them into a perennial border, or make a herb container garden on a patio, deck, or paved space.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about ideas for using herbs in home garden landscapes and share their favourite perennial herbs, annual herbs, and exotic herbs.
If youâre looking for more on planning a kitchen garden, check out this post on kitchen garden planning.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Leafy greens fizzle out in the summer? Does your lettuce bolt too soon?
Find out how to grow more leafy greens in your garden and how to extend your harvest so you can pick fresh salad greens as long as possible.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about crops ideas for leafy greens, how to plant leafy greens in a home garden or edible landscape, choosing greens crops for ongoing harvest, how to hurry up your spring harvest, and how to slow down boltingâeven in hot weather.
If youâre looking for more on leafy greens, check out this guide to 5 heat-tolerant salad greens.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Tried growing a potted lemon tree but it didnât thrive?
Citrus expert Byron Martin has the solution. And itâs not difficult.
AND he also has recommendations for other unusual potted citrus trees.
We talk about finger limes, blood limes, pomelo, sweet lemon, sunquat, kumquat, citron, and more.
For all of these citrus trees in pots, proper watering is the key to success. We hear how to waterâand what to expect from potted citrus trees in the fall. (Spoiler alert: If your lemon tree drops leaves when you bring it indoors, youâre not alone!)
We also find out about Byronâs favourite rootstock for citrus grafting.
If youâre looking for more on indoor lemon trees, hereâs a guide to growing a lemon tree in a pot (that actually fruits!)
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Donât have time to spend on fussy fruit crops? Then growing raspberries is something to think about.
You can prune raspberries and manage the crop to maximize production. But this is one of those bulletproof crops that can do quite nicely without your help.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about planting raspberries, how raspberries grow, how to prune raspberries, and how to care for them.
If youâre looking for more on raspberries, tune in to our chat with Conrad Richter from Richters Herbs about the genus rubus (and learn about raspberry leaf tea!)
And hereâs more on how to tip-layer blackberries and black raspberries.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Wondering which flowers you can eat? Thereâs a wide variety of edible flowers that are easy to grow.
You might already have some and just arenât using them.
Edible flowers often come from well-known vegetable, herb, and fruit crops. But there are many that come from ornamental plants too. Even some shrubs and trees.
Find out which flowers are edibleâand how you can use them to spice up your cooking and have fun with your culinary creativity.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about their favourite edible flowers, and how to use them.
If youâre looking for more fun crops, check out these edible perennials. (You might already be growing some of them!
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Wondering which vegetables to grow? Or how to pick suitable varieties for your vegetable garden? If you put some thought into your choices, you can avoid harvest-time disappointments.
In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about crops they find worthwhile, along with some favourite varieties. The choices for Donnaâs cold prairie garden arenât always the same as for Stevenâs milder growing zone.
Start to narrow down the top choices for your vegetable garden with ideas on crops and varieties for:
A reliable harvestSimplicitySuitability for your gardenIf youâre looking for more ideas to plan the perfect kitchen garden, check out these ideas.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Growing tomatoes from seed? Get the right combination of timing, soil, light, and containers, and you can grow great tomato seedlings at home.
Thereâs more than one way to raise tomato plants from seed. And that means you can do it in a way that fits your growing space.
AND make sure to pick a variety youâll loveâbecause thatâs a big reason for growing tomato seedlings. Some of the best tomato varieties are only available as seeds.
In this episode, Donna and Steven chat with Gen Z tomato grower Emma Biggs, who has raised tons of tomato plants for her annual plant sale and seed business. They talk about how they grow tomatoes from seed and the varieties they love. (They each do it differently!)
If you want more on planting tomatoes from seed, check out the guide to growing tomato seedlings on the website.
And say hiâwe love to hear what you think.
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Short growing season? Not enough space? Sore back and knees?
Grow crops in containers for a longer season, to fit in more crops, and bend less.
If you want to up your game at container growing, or if you're new to gardening and need an inspiring primer, join us on April 14th for a live online class.
Do you shut down your garden for the winter? Wondering what vegetables to plant in the winter?
If youâre in a northern climate, to grow vegetables in winter you need to give them heat and lightâŠand that usually means high-input greenhouse growing.
But thereâs another way to approach winter vegetable gardening.
And itâs low-tech.
The idea is to choose hardy crops and grow them big enough before light levels take a dive. Then keep those hardy crops alive in a protected spaceâand keep harvesting through the winter.
The key to successes is the right combination of crops, varieties, and the spacing.
In this episode, find out how to you can harvest winter vegetables in cold-climate home gardens.
Weâre joined by JM Fortier, co-author of the book The Winter Market Gardener. The books shares years of research at Ferme des Quatre-Temps.
Fortier is also founder of The Market Gardener Institute, which offers training for small farmers. Heâs founder of the small-farm tool and accessory retailer Growers & Co.
---If youâre looking for more information on seed-starting, vegetable gardening, and growing food at home, drop by the Food Garden Life website and grab the free guide, 20 Small-Space Food-Garden Hacks.
And say hiâwe love to hear from what you think.
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