If you’re a flower farmer looking to make stunning pumpkin centrepieces, a home baker looking for the perfect pie pumpkin, a parent looking for a large pumpkin variety to carve with your kids, or any pumpkin lover in between, you’ve come to the right place! In this blog post, I
Your garden is doing well and you’re even starting to harvest some vegetables when all of a sudden you see some weird little white spots on your pumpkins, squash, cucumbers, or zucchini. You shrug it off, thinking it’s probably no big deal. A few days later it’s spread to more
Have you fallen in love with flower and pumpkin centrepieces? They’re so unique for a Thanksgiving Centrepiece or a fall wedding. But for as cute as they are, there’s only one problem–how do you get the pumpkin to last?! I’ve typically found that the pumpkins hold up for 4-7 days
Think you have too little space in your city backyard to garden? I’m here to tell you that as long as you have decent light, you don’t. This year I planted a small garden in my backyard in a designated garden area, amongst my flowers wherever there was space, in
The harvest is underway and I’m already thinking about what worked and didn’t work this year. There were lots of surprises this year: volunteer potatoes (that did really well despite much neglect), barely there greens and beets, peas that didn’t perform, and the wonder that is cylindrical beets. Here’s my
The first of the garden produce is in! Most of my lettuce and spinach did not come up, but this butter crunch lettuce really delivered.
Hi, I’m Kristen and I help new gardeners learn to grow their own vegetables and beautify their yards. I also share recipes that use all those delicious garden produce. Grab a coffee (and your gardening gloves) and join me for gardening tips, simple recipes, and the occasional DIY, all from the lovely city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
