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I have to admit that it has been a very long time since my last update! […]

In addition to all the wonderful fruits and vegetables that fill my garden, I have also […]

For years I’ve been obsessed with growing fabulous, fresh fruit right here in Central Alberta. Not […]

Some time ago I was introduced to Anna from northernhomestead.com – a fellow gardening enthusiast from central Alberta. She writes a […]

For years I’ve had great plans to build a garden trellis for my many varieties of […]

This week I experienced my first real grape harvest. Sure, I’d had managed to grow a […]

Orange and yellow tulips, flowering crab, and pears flowers – Just another fantastic show of color this spring […]

Well folks, I took another photo stroll around the yard and snapped some of my favorite […]

That little, inexpensive “greenhouse within a greenhouse” project, according to the weather almanac, could have just added 9 days to my growing season – for FREE!

One of my favorite types of photos are the macro photos of spring buds. There is […]

As mild as this winter has been, it’s still been winter! Don’t get me wrong – […]

Some of the most popular articles that I’ve written on this website have been about my […]

I don’t think I have ever experienced a summer in Alberta when, by the 20th of […]

As I mentioned in one of my recent posts, I recently returned from vacationing in the […]

My wife and I just returned from visiting my parents in the Kootenays of British Columbia. […]

It looks like this will be another saskatoon-less summer. Things were growing so well… Lots of […]

In my last post, I took a photo stroll around the yard. But at that time […]

It was way back in in the June of 2008, that I took a Photo Stroll […]

Recently, I’ve had a few requests about exactly what to plant in these square foot gardens […]

This morning I made an unexpected discovery. While checking my an email address that I haven’t […]

If you remember way back in the early part of this summer, I told you about […]

I must say, this has been probably the worst gardening year I’ve ever experienced. The weather […]

I took a trip back the farm earlier this summer and snapped a couple of pictures […]

Finally the snow has melted and the forecast no longer has overnight frosts. Time to get […]

It’s almost Spring! Yes, there may be a foot of snow on the ground still. Yes, […]

Well, not that long ago I showed you that a hoop-frame greenhouse could survive a Canadian […]

It’s December 12 in Central Alberta. Last week brought a lovely little blizzard with high winds […]

I don’t know if you’ve picked up on this yet, but I like tomatoes. I’m pretty […]

Hi folks! I just wanted to share this picture with you. I snapped it this morning. […]

The heat in the milk jugs is slowly released throughout the night

While taking a landscaping course recently, I had to identify the colors used in a particular […]

The hail broke windows, shredded siding, and striped everything off of his saskatoon and raspberry bushes – but his greenhouse covered with this same woven poly was completely undamaged!

After getting started tremendously late (due to landscaping issues), my garden isn’t looking too bad – […]

A few weeks ago I had a real hankerin’ for some strawberries. I checked into my […]

As promised earlier, here are a few haskap/honeyberry pictures. These were four inch seedlings about three […]

The plants had more than doubled in size this year and were covered in little berries.

The next step in landscaping our yard was removing the four large stumps from what would […]

Last summer I bought a new house – as I’ve eluded to in some of my […]

It seems everyone is in the greenhouse building mode! Ok, well, maybe not EVERYONE, but many […]

Recently I received a comment on my post “How to Build An Inexpensive Hoop-Frame Greenhouse” from […]

I had a comment today on my post regarding square-foot gardens asking about some pictures of […]

After quite a bit of reading about companion planting, last spring I decided to try it. […]

My love of fresh fruit has kept me on the trail to experience the many upick […]

This weekend was the annual Summertime Country Drive (a collection of 25 central Alberta farms & […]

This is just a quick and simple post asking just one question: What kind of flower […]

Today was the Strawberry Festival at the Jungle Farm just north of Innisfail. Since that’s right […]

Gardening in Alberta certainly has it’s challenges. The #1 challenge has got to be the weather. […]

I’ve been wrong before – and I’ll be wrong again. Just last week I wrote a […]

This is my third season of growing tomatoes, and believe me, I have learned a lot […]

I just thought I update you on how my ‘potatoes grown in straw‘ experiment is going. […]

Yesterday I experienced the joy of my first u-pick of the season! I had been anxiously […]

Remember the article I wrote back in May about How To Build An Inexpensive Hoop-frame Greenhouse? […]

Over the past while, folks have been asking me for a few new features on this […]

Yes, it’s true.  I’ve been eating haskap berries this past week. Not bucketfuls, but small handfuls […]

This spring I had quite a few leftover seed potatoes. I hated to waste them, but […]

This year I tried something new. I had heard rumors of other people doing it, but […]

This evening I took a walk around my yard with my little girl and my camera. […]

I took a talk around our yard today and was pleased to notice that my haskap […]

Today is certainly a sad day. After much work in building my A-frame greenhouse and covering […]

As of today, phase one of my giant A-frame greenhouse is complete. It stands about 12 […]

Back in November I wrote a post called “Introduction to Haskap Berries (aka Honeyberries)“. Currently, this […]

One of the most valuable assets in my garden is my greenhouse. It has allowed me […]

Hello. My name is Dave and I’m a locavore. I’ve actually been a locavore for years, […]

Last spring I bought six kiwi seedlings. Within a couple days of getting planted, they were […]

Well, it’s May and by now every gardener in Alberta is biting at the bit to […]

Today was the day to transplant my tomato seedlings, and I think I may have done […]

Today I planted some corn. I’ve never planted corn as indoor seedlings before, but after attending […]

Over the past few days I’ve noticed two things. First, my cucumber seedlings have a tendency […]

A picture is worth a thousand words, so let me just say this: April 12, 2008 […]

Yesterday, April 7, 2008 , I planted my first seeds of the year. If you’ve never […]

A couple of days ago I planted an acorn with my daughter, and by George, I […]

I’d like to introduce you to a new way of gardening. It’s called square foot gardening. […]

When I was a kid growing up in central Alberta, I was pretty sure that all […]

On Yahoo! Canada today there was a news article from ABC News entitled “Hair: the best […]

With spring not all that far away, folks are browsing the seed catalogs and are starting […]

With the recent week of -40 degree weather, my thoughts have again turned to straw bale […]

Peas have long been my favorite garden snack. Ever since I was a kid, you would […]

After my grapes went through their first winter, I wasn’t sure they had survived. Well, after […]

While traveling through southern California & Arizona over Christmas, I saw some super-sized gardens. Having grown […]

This Christmas I was inspired to plant a tree. Maybe two. Maybe even a hundred. You […]

The ground is frozen and there is a layer of snow covering your garden plot. There’s […]

Before two years ago, I had no idea that you could grow peppers in Alberta. I […]

For my family, and I imagine many other North Americans, potatoes are the most common food […]

Over the past two years I’ve grown six different varieties of carrots. I’ve grown purple carrots, […]

Making a new garden plot is no easy task – no matter how you do it. […]

What are the three things that consume most of your time and effort in gardening? It’s […]

If you’ve never seen haskap before, this whole article is going to seem very strange to […]

This spring I expanded my strawberry patch. In the past all I had grown was the […]

Who knew that throwing all your dead plants, moldy vegetables, and manure from your pet pig […]

I grew up on a farm in central Alberta and naturally, we had a large garden […]