vegetables – Page 2 – Garden Making

Fun for gardeners at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair

February 5, 2019November 6, 2013 by Kat Fox

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

I’ve gone to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair every November since 1994, but it has only been the past few years I’ve noticed all the gardening and agricultural displays. I’ve … Read more

Tree & Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farm tasting

February 3, 2019August 13, 2013 by Kat Fox

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.

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

Lessons from the veggie garden

February 5, 2019July 15, 2013 by Kat Fox

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.

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

‘Fooled You’, too

February 7, 2019January 11, 2012 by Judith Adam

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

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.