vegetables

This display of a working greenhouse includes everything needed to grow tomatoes year round, including live bees.

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Fun for gardeners at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

February 5, 2019

Kat Fox

I’ve gone to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair every November since 1994, but it has only been the past few ...

Linda uses hoop houses to extend the growing season, so those lucky enough to get a weekly basket of produce through her CSA program receive a diverse selection through the year.

Food to grow Ground to Cover

Tree & Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farm tasting

February 3, 2019

Kat Fox

Kat Fox taste-tests her way through the Tree and Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farm, and learns about the importance of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

The tomato cages and stakes just didn't cut it, and now a big wooden stick is trying to hold mo monster tomatoes back from the peppers in front. Marigolds and sage are hiding in the cinder blocks under my tomato monster, and I think they'll have to accept that their "time in the sun" has passed. That corner will never see sun again.

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Lessons from the veggie garden

February 5, 2019

Kat Fox

It’s time for an update on my first ever vegetable bed.

'Fooled You' hybrid peppers. Photo from William Dam Seeds

Making a Garden

‘Fooled You’, too

February 7, 2019

Judith Adam

I’ve found Fooled You peppers, hybrid Jalapenos, with the characteristic flavour, minus the heat. Tissue-burning capsaicinoid compounds, produced by fruits of chili peppers, is bred out.

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