Hello, It is time to harvest all of your radishes, turnips and spinach. As these are spring vegetables, they do not enjoy the hot weather, and will not grow well. […]
Garden Maintenance Mid-June
Hi gardners, The hot weather has officially arrived. Hot days like yesterday are great for your heat-loving tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash and zucchini. However, these plants also suck a lot […]
Garden Maintenance Early June
Hello, Your warm weather vegetables are in the ground, and your lettuce, kale, chard, radishes and spinach are flourishing. There are a couple of important tasks to add to your […]
Gardening maintenance guide last week of May (Already!?)
Hello, My things are moving in the garden this week! With the warm weather and all this sunshine, your veggies should be doing very nicely. Although, for those of you […]
Weekly garden maintenance mid-May :)
Howdy gardeners! Sorry about last week. She slipped me by! Looks like we are just about ready to start harvesting (if you haven’t already!) Those of you who got started […]
Grow Your Garden, Week of April 30th
You will probably see your second row of peas peaking through the earth, and should start seeing some young radishes popping out of the ground soon too. Keep weeding, and […]
Hello there gardeners!
Every week (or almost 🙂 I will be posting here to let you know what to expect from your garden, and what you should be doing to maintain it. This […]
Living Mulch
An important addition to any vegetable garden, living mulch provides food and habitat for beneficial insects, retains moisture, regulates soil temperature, improves soil structure and adds nutrients such as nitrogen, […]
Part 8: Harvesting and season’s end
On your garden calendar you should have ideal harvesting dates for all of your vegetables. These dates are a guideline. When you are in your garden, you can judge if […]
Part 7: Pest control
Through out the season you may however come across some pest problems. In a healthy garden, these are mostly slugs and snails. The best way to deal with these is […]
Part 6: Planting
To prepare your bed for spring planting, first warm the soil by covering your raised beds with dark plastic (garbage bags cut open, punch holes in it to let some […]
Part 5: Starting seedlings
Certain vegetables need a longer growing season than Montreal can provide, so we need to start them off indoors. These include tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, cabbage, onions and flowers. You can […]