Prepping for gardening in January
We are learning of many new things online, and especially from Country View Acres on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@CountryViewAcres In particular… more and better grow lights for starting seeds. So we picked…
Garlic Planting 20241019
The 2024 Garlic crop has been planted. Kim did about 8 hours of prep with cracking the bulbs into cloves, planning, marking bags, getting the spreadsheet uptodate and more. I…
Garden Prep 20241017
Another big day of garden prep. This time it was to move 5 wagonloads (totalling just over 1 cubic yard) of compost from the front of the property to the…
Garden Prep 20241016
This is a 90 second timelapse (x10) video of prepping the garden for fall planting of garlic. This is VegBed #2 and it is 4’x24′ or approx 96 ft^2. The…
2024 Garlic Harvest Completed!
Image from 2023 drying This morning was maybe5-6 hours of harvesting garlic out of the VegBed#4. It is DONE! The next step is several hours work in hanging it to…
Garlic Harvest 2024 has started
The garlic harvest of 2024 has started early! On 2024 July 08 the following were harvested: Ttv5 Iinchelium Spicey Korean Yugo red Spanish antihelion On 2024 July 09 these were…
Is it spring yet?
Is it spring yet? This image from 13 years ago shows snow… much like it was over this past weekend. We continued to be optimistic and built two more new…
Gardening has sprung
A short trip to the Selby TCO Agromart resulted in this: a 50″x16′ cattle panel. It is going to make the best climbing trellis that we have ever had for…
Garlic Planting 2023
And it is DONE again! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2023. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the…
Garlic Harvest 2023 Data
The 2023 Garlic Harvest is complete. Over the course of 4 mornings, Kim dug up, organized, tied and hung up approx 1392 garlic plants. They dried over the next 3…
Garlic Harvest and Processing 2023 complete
Phew! Kim worked hard and has completed the processing of the 2023 SCGO Garlic Harvest. This involved cutting the tops and bottoms off, cleaning the dirt off and then measuring…
Garlic Harvest 2023
The 2023 Garlic Harvest is complete. Over the course of 4 mornings, Kim dug up, organized, tied and hung up approx 1392 garlic plants. They will dry over the next…
2022 Seed Saving -Tomatoes
The seeds were all dried and put in their packets today. Nine types of tomato seeds were saved out this year. Anna Russian (mid-large Red), Tiny Tim (red currant) ,…
Garlic Planting 2022
And it is DONE! The SCGO Garlic Planting of 2022. It went quicker and easier than past years, thanks to a lot of prep work up front. cracking the bulbs…
Today’s Gardening Adventures
The day started out cold -2C but the sun was shining. The wind coming from the SSW at 11 km/h and gusty. I quickly got out to do some Solar…