How we're growing sweet potatoes in a cold temperate climate, zone 6A.

In which spring has almost sprung... but not quite... and then it did!

In which I talk about making natural slow compost and maybe raising natural kids...

A random selection of strange spring photos... and compost!

In which winter turns into spring in a couple of days!

About late winter plant foods in the garden, which can help us bridge the hungry gap.

On climate change and what it means for our garden.

Besides being a hugely internationally popular children's book (it's like top 50 in the world on Amazon), it's also a fact of life and a normal bodily function... so why all the shame and taboos? During

Besides being a hugely internationally popular children's book (it's like top 50 in the world on Amazon), it's also a fact of life and a normal bodily function... so why all the shame and taboos? During

In which I describe what happened to me in the last 2-3 years.

So @esteem app got updated to work with the new block chain, Hive, a fork from Steem. Let's try a short post to test it out! @riverflows provided the inspiration - a post about wild garlic. Here it's very

Over the years we've collected 4 or 5 varieties of Jerusalem artichokes. However, for the life of me, I cannot find where the rest are growing and I've been digging around aplenty! Still, I wanted to share

Most of the garlic seems to have overwintered well and after a week of warmer weather, got a flying start! That's 10 cm of straw mulch in top. 6 rows of tightly spaced garlic in an 80 cm wide slightly

The weird weather continues. After having a couple of centimeters of snow, it suddenly became very warm and in a few days, we had 20+ degrees in the shade. Tomorrow a new -5C night time temp is expected,

Last weekend we couldn't visit our garden and do some work there, as it was time for the annual meeting of our local gardening and permaculture forum. The meetup is an yearly thing in late winter, happening

First crocuses started appearing just as all the snow melted the other day! I really love and appreciate spring bulb flowers, their short appearance but long and unassuming lives and their perfect timing,

After we got about 5 cm of sudden snow after a 10C week, go figure, we're again headed for the 10C tomorrow. So as good as time as any to start in the spring pruning in the orchard. Luckily I started doing

Started grafting a few days ago, I'm planning on doing some 50 trees, let's see how it goes!

Hfjeje A simple recipe, only 2 ingredients, almost no time required, what could go wrong? Nothing! A perfect result as always, to the delight of our baby girl, which eats vegans for breakfast.

There is a sizable hazel growing on the fence line with our neighbors. And now it's in full bloom, it's a very pretty sight, especially as it catches a late afternoon light. Here's to a nice harvest of