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Gardening While Renting: How My Balcony Garden Is Growing
I’m in love with my balcony garden! It has brought me so much joy this spring as I’ve been watching my plants grow–even though I’ve been making all sorts of gardening mistakes as I attempt to grow over 10 different types of plants. While I haven’t had any big harvests of veggies yet, I wanted to share the progress (and my excitement!) of my little balcony garden with you. 2022 Balcony Garden Planting Update Gardening mistakes are par for the course, and even with all of them, I’ve been having a lot of fun with my variety of plants. It is so satisfying to see the seeds sprout and then…
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Gardening While Renting: New Year, New Hope, New Balcony Garden
Last year I had an unexpected move, which happily landed me in a wonderful apartment with a beautiful balcony. Was I ever excited when I laid eyes on that balcony! All I could think about was what an amazing balcony garden I could have and all the vegetables I could grow. Gardening while renting can be a challenge, but this new space gives me hope for a thriving container garden. Why I’m excited for my Balcony Garden For the last couple of years I’ve been attempting to garden in my rental units in the smallest of spaces. With the challenges that came with small space gardening also came a lot…
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Backyard Garden: Digging in to 2022
Backyard Garden Plan Late last year my husband and I decided we would not be doing a large vegetable garden in 2022 in order to focus on some of our projects, such as (finally) putting up our greenhouse. However, given another in a series of world events that may result in food scarcity and higher food prices we decided we should make our garden even bigger and more productive instead! Nothing like making plans and sticking to them 😉 See past posts about our garden here! In the past couple of years we had been experiencing reduced yields – for example in our first year we had way too many…
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5 Gardening Tasks To Tackle in the Winter Months
You might think that after the spring and summer growing season are done, so is our work in the garden. However there are some important gardening tasks that are best done in the colder weather. See below for a few ideas on how to get ahead of your gardening to-do list this spring! Alison and I have both had gardens in past years and have documented some of our experiences on the blog. See the links below to follow along on our journey! Backyard Garden Journey Gardening While Renting 1. Pruning Many trees and bushes can benefit from pruning, which can serve to remove unproductive, diseased or damaged areas of…
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Gardening While Renting: An Early Farewell to Year Two
This was the second year that I’ve been attempting to garden while renting. I shared about the beginning of this year’s garden back in April. I had high hopes for my few little plants I was able to plant in my tiny place. This year hasn’t gone as planned in a large number of ways and my little garden is no exception. Gardening While Renting Year Two Recap For this year’s garden I chose to plant some things that I thought would be fun to grow. Dill Beets Kale Seed paper with a mystery plant I made a bunch of mistakes right from the start, such as not paying attention…
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Backyard Garden: Surviving the Weather
Well, it’s been awhile since the last backyard garden update and a lot has happened this season! To set the stage for those who don’t live on the southwest coast of British Columbia: it’s been a wild year. We had a cold spring that ran quite late, which changed almost like the flip of a switch to a couple of very warm spells including a record-breaking heat wave that went above 40 C. That hasn’t happened here since recordkeeping began and the effect on the whole province has been profound. As you can imagine, the plants in the garden have reacted in varying ways – read on to find out…
