Today we tried to make up for summer's late arrival by cleaning and renovating our nursery shed outside. I got a new LED grow light from Costco to try out, I hope it does as good or better as my 2 fluorescent

This can be a really great project for you and your young family members to learn about plants and gardening. It would also be great for a classroom, if you use a glass pot make sure to put rocks in the

This is Waterside beach looking towards Martin Head. We have the highest tides in the world here, low tide can be almost a miles walk out here. Very few people frequent it and we can often let our dog

Shot a little video this morning, it will be camera shy weather for the rest of the weekend. Just wanted to try out Dtube, and show off my cold frame, but it will not let me submit my upload. It's Victoria

This is my son and dogs looking out on the bay of Fundy, this place is called Denis's Beach. There are some flower pot rocks here, similar to those at the Rocks provincial park. We also found 2 waterfalls

This is my son and dogs looking out on the bay of Fundy, this place is called Denis's Beach. There are some flower pot rocks here, similar to those at the Rocks provincial park. We also found 2 waterfalls

This is the height of the growing season back in 2014 with a 10 Bale garden. It works great, but if you have the ability to make raised beds they are more cost effective and less fertilizer dependent.

My son and I were both under the weather today, it can be hard to get outside and do much work. For an hour we could forget about our sore throat and cold. The sunny day helped us muster enough energy

This is my last article on creating your own cold storage bin, I've really enjoyed making this series. For this article I'm going to go over creating custom airtight doors and some general theory so you

Wanted to share some photos of the family during some unusually warm days! We are having some summer like temperatures here from time to time, looking forward to a productive summer. Links to my previous

These were from back in April, but I still love them!

Cold storage bins protect your harvest, so you could refer to it as your food vault! In my last article we covered the basics of site selection and working with hand tools on a small budget. In this article

Just like a server room, veggies like to be kept cold! You too can build your own zero energy year round cold storage bin. I'm going to take you through the theory and using my own build as an example

My wife Erica took this photo on her way to work this morning of the Harvey marsh. We got some real frost last night glad everything is covered up, there is still lots of growing to come, tomorrows high

Went out this afternoon to do some thinning and I thought I would share what me and my family got up to. Got a salads worth of spinach and a little treat of small carrots from the raised beds. At the rate

Just making a short post to say I'm still here, still gardening and still Steeming. The most I can manage is reading through various posts to keep my mind off of our present situation. I am really struggling

After a weigh in my crop of seed garlic came to five pounds. Really hard to split and plant it in the ground, it looks so amazing! We have many tomatoes and a few squash still coming so they all got in

We are having a wonderful fall here in the Maritimes, and my fall plantings are looking great. It's time to thin the beets and spinach now, and I need to harvest and freeze some of this cilantro! Some

My family went to see the Friday night hot air balloon launch in Sussex, NB. This is an international event with balloonist's from all over, getting together to fly. These two photos are the balloons being

It's a busy time of year for me and haven't had enough time to post this last week. I haven't given up on you fellow steemians, let me assure you! This is some of the produce we have picked from my second