Saving your own tomato seeds is rather fun and has all sorts of benefits. Preserving heirloom seeds, ensuring a supply of your own favourites for next year, helping protect seed diversity, making a giant mess of stinky fermenting goo, it’s all there! It’s also pretty easy. As part of our seed selling business we save […]
How to: Freeze and Peel Tomatoes for Easy Preserving and Winter Hoarding
The tomatoes are starting to roll in. It’s always exciting at first, those first tomatoes. Grown by spring rain and summer heat. Quickly though, full on tomato panic starts to sets in. Where do you put them all? How can you prevent buying some in December when there are so so many right now? Canning […]
Thin Your Seedlings, right onto your plate!
Gardening with small children in an exercise in letting go of any tidy gardening habits you may have had in the past. When letting a toddler help you out, you are likely to get thick masses of seedlings growing together. Rather than fighting it and trying to grow things in straight lines, I find it […]
Oh My Mess! to DIY Pantry P0rn
Way back in January, I was inspired to clean up my pantry. Friends at Well Preserved and Folks Gotta Eat were writing these great posts about overhauling their pantries and finding 10 bags of quinoa, 4 bags of icing sugar and secret stashes of pudding mix. Well I dove right in, found my share of […]
Easy Instructions to Grow Organic Potatoes in Containers
I’ve talked about growing potatoes here before and recently was invited to write about the topic for Kaia magazine. It’s the first time I’ve had anything I’ve written published in print so check out pages 40-43 as well as the other excellent gardening and eco-friendly articles. Last year’s potato post was the most popular post […]