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On Tuesday morning it was cold when I got up around 6AM so I got the stoves going and my post up. When I pulled up the shades at 7AM it was snowing and soon everything was white. Then it stopped and started

Tuesday, after another crappy night, I was up before 6AM, got the cat fed and my post up. I got the laundry folded and was ready when my general helper arrived at 8AM. The first job was cleaning up the

On Monday morning, I was up at 5AM and got my post up, then watered the rest of the seedlings. I hadn’t heard from my general helper and they were too dry. Then I got chores done and headed out to the

On Sunday morning I was up at 5AM and got my post up, the kitchen cleaned up and chores done, and then watered the office seedlings. I took a rest for a while then got up to water the rest of the seedlings.

It was time to get my onion and cabbage seedlings planted into the large raised bed. I placed my hoops onto the frame and laid out the plastic to cover it. I have put one of the new cabbage varieties into

On Monday I got the laundry started, kitchen cleaned up, and started sorting out seedlings to go to the cold frame. I had to open the 2nd cold frame. We’d not used this one because the chipmunks tunneling

Winter sowing is a technique I have been using for several years. It sounds unbelievable but it really does work. You can plant cold hardy seeds now in containers, place them outside, and they will germinate

This last weekend my husband helped me to set up my lettuce cold frame. I had plug trays growing in the greenhouse and I had been waiting for the freezing nights to end. The weather has been quite the

Saskatoon Berries are not related to blueberries, which they resemble. And, though thought of as a berry, a Saskatoon Berry is actually a "pome" and closer to an apple in structure. About a month