by Julia Dimakos | Nov 21, 2019 | Gardening Tips, Resources, Seed Starting, Video
We’re deep into fall and winter is just around the corner. Many of you have long ago put your vegetable gardens to bed and are already dreaming of spring. If you’re like me, you’ve been itching to get your hands in the dirt again. I feel this way...
by Julia Dimakos | Nov 15, 2019 | DIY, Recipes, Video
I’ve been busy in the kitchen preserving the harvest and doing a lot of experimentation with food fermentation and have dabbled with vegetable ferments over the years, making fermented pickles, pickled beans and more. These have been fairly easy and...
by Julia Dimakos | Nov 11, 2019 | Garden Updates, Gardening Tips, Video
Summer is over, the kitchen garden is just about done for the year, but the greenhouse continues to push on. There are tomatoes, a few cucumbers and even several chilli peppers still thriving. There’s even a few herbs to choose from. Ever since we bought the...
by Julia Dimakos | Oct 12, 2019 | Garden Updates, Gardening Tips, Vegetable Gardening, Vegetables, Video
How do you harvest lettuce in your vegetable garden or container garden? Do you wait for your lettuce plants to produce heads, then lop off their entire heads at the base? Maybe you prefer a mixed salad bowl and harvest a leaf here and a leaf there? Seems like a...
by Julia Dimakos | Oct 9, 2019 | Gardening Tips, Vegetable Gardening, Video
Do you have trouble harvesting carrots? Maybe you have tough clay soil, or perhaps your soil is compacted? Or what if your soil is neither of those, but may still be difficult to get those carrots out of the ground without breaking off the leafy growth or the bottom...
by Julia Dimakos | Aug 5, 2019 | Video, Resources, Seed Starting, Vegetable Gardening
Whether you’re starting seeds for a spring planting, or sowing a succession crop, one of the easiest ways to do so is through multisowing. Multisowing is the process of sowing many seeds in a seed tray, for the purpose of pricking out before they establish their...