Search results

There was a lady by my brothers old school in Stirling who grew her pumpkins on her picket fence. I remember distinctly one of the pumpkins grew between 2 pickets. It was great lol

My cinderblocks are frozen in place lol so I'm repurposing some rough sawn 2x10x12ft pine I have hanging around that isn't going to get used on my run-in shelter since I'm going with hemlock as my kick boards to add weight. I'd like to keep most of my raised beds the same size, I have a big...

I know my planting containers said to dig a hole that was twice as wide but not twice as deep as the bush (i think?) when I planted my landscape ones in the front garden last spring and we don't have a lot of soil in our front garden due to being on the start of the canadian shield and they...

raised beds? I'm just curious, I have an enormous 20ft by 5ft "raised bed" its 2x10's ontop of landscape fabric with about 5 inches of soil currently sitting in it. I'd hate to have to take it apart to make smaller beds so I'm trying to find a way to use it for something this spring. It has a...

Hehe, vfem... we were planning on making a compost bin with some of the extras of our cinder blocks I'm going to have to scrap the snow off the ground but I can start laying out and dumping my goat and horse poo in them...

I have wild grapes taking over my whole property :O They've already murdered some of the trees on the west fenceline, and they're starting to take on my actual fences. Yikes! Blackberries are totally foolproof. My blackberries grew like 4 feet, seriously... in one season and produced some...

LOL I so did actually. I realized all it said was Springbrook and my zone! Geez, I live in Springbrook, Nowhere haha. At least that's what it feels like sometimes!

Haha I'm sure there is a Springbrook in the UK, but no we're in Canada :) We're originally from Essex, UK though :D and we had family in Cambridge until last year when they moved to Belgium. The planting issues with the town we had while living in a GTA suburb called Bowmanville in Ontario.

boggy, we had similar issues with our township years ago when we tried/wanted to plant out our boulevard in front of the house. According to the town we weren't allowed to plant it because we don't own it, but we had to keep it looking good or else they'd fine us. No logic, IMO as you said.

New raised beds, tilling up the old plot garden and turning it over to raised beds because it seems all the weeds in the world congregate here. Fencing in the garden....

We planted a bunch of blackberry, raspberry, and blueberry last year in our front garden behind our picket fence as edible landscape plants. I have most of my blueberries on the side of my garden where we have an enormous peony because I don't need them to be so "poppy" there as the peony takes...

I've found this information re: cinder block raised beds. Supposedly you can fill your gaps in the blocks with sand, gravel, or rock to create a solar heat entrapment and keep the soil warmer longer (and possibly even earlier?)...

I loved our Scarlet Runners this year, gorgeous! And the beans were super tastey. What about sweetpea? Beautiful blooms.

We have quite a few Apple trees now, were all bought from Canadian Tire and other garden centres over the last year and a half. This summer will be our original 2 trees second year in the ground here and they have grown. Our others will be a year in the ground. When do you start pruning? And...

Husqvarnas! I own a Husqvarna Lena which is a basic model, I don't believe they make them anymore. We also have a Husqvarna Rose.

My garden area is actually rather level, it's been used as a small hay plot for a while and has been harrowed really nice and flat over the year lol. But I agree, it's going to be harder to get everything nice and level in the winter. I wouldn't be filling them, just laying them out and...

I feel ya BBH We inherited 2 ENORMOUS Rhubarb plants. We're talking ancient plants and we only cut half them this year and ended up with like 20lbs of rhubarb O__O

I found an article in my Hobby Farms magazine where the person was making a 4 sq. ft. raised bed out of cinderblock and that got me thinking... We have an old rabbit barn on our property made entirely out of cinderblock. It must have fallen down years ago and all that is left is the cinder...

I'm in zone 5 in Ontario, Canada and I'm wondering what I should plant in early spring, and when I should plant it so it doesn't bolt. I'm thinking broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce/spinach for spring. I have raised beds with hoop houses over them.

Well, I couldn't can using my large Litre jars cause my canner is too small LOL so I have to go and buy the size up to do it in those, instead I started with the smaller jars and got 3 jars canned until I realized that I had run out of tops for them. At least they sealed properly, the sauce...