Aaah, it’s that time of the year again. Snow on the ground, Christmas trees in living rooms and delicious cookies on every desk at work. Yes, it’s time for… gardening catalogues??
That’s right! As any home gardener knows, this is the time of year when the first seed and plant catalogues begin to arrive on your [...]
What to do with a surplus of little sweet tomatoes from the garden?
Our daytime temperature is falling fast, but we’re still getting large handfuls of sweet grape tomatoes from the garden every day. After seeing the price of sun-dried tomatoes at the grocery store ($4.00 for a small bag? and look at the preservatives!) I [...]
Unfortunately, this summer was not great for our garden. We had a late start due to a cool spring, a wicked windstorm in early August, and just not enough days of sunny and hot. (The heat wave we saw in late July helped, but it was a little too late and too short to do [...]
I think everyone’s grandparents had a rhubarb plant or two. Early summers would be filled with rhubarb pies and rhubarb crumbles, and if you were lucky you’d get rhubarb sorbet.
Rhubarb (also called a “pie plant”) can commonly be found at farmers’ markets this time of year. In Manitoba, the season for rhubarb has just peaked. [...]
