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An older post from 2019 giving an July update on how the gardening is growing.

This is an older post from 2019 detailing what kind of flowers I grow and future plans.

Sweet Corn and tomatoes are two of my favorite veggies. I also love Ornamental corn. My dad loves telling children that he hand paints each kernel. In Manitoba sweet corn is ready in August and Ornamental corn is ready in September. There are a few different types of corn: sweet dent flint popcorn flour pod Dent corn is what is found in fields and is used for animal feed, is a base for high-fructose corn syrup, and other things. Flint corn is often referred to as Indian C

Really, I don't cook and no I'm not starving and yes I do know how to cook. So than the question is why don't I cook? Cooking for one is not fun and having 5 cats makes cooking difficult. So what do you eat? In summer time I love Greek salad, nuked potatoes, eating raw corn on the cob, and toasted tomato sandwiches. In winter time pizza is a go to. Having a garden and loving to cook means the meals you can make is endless. If you don't have a garden, but love cooking ch

I grow very few radishes and no rutabaga. The reason I grow radishes is to mark my carrot rows. Carrots grow incredibly slow and radishes grow incredibly fast so it shows me where my row is. I found radishes to be spicy, I'm not a fan of overly spicy or heat. All Recipes apparently has over 100 recipes for radishes! The rutabaga, swede, or neep is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip. The roots are eaten in a variety of ways, and

I sometimes get asked what's the difference between a pumpkin and a winter squash? I really don't have a answer to that question. They both belong to the Cucurbita family and than they branch off into other families. All pumpkins are winter squash: mature fruit of certain species in the genus Cucurbita. Subspecies include pepo, moschata, argyrosperma, and maxima. Quite confusing so I just say a pumpkin is a squash! I grow approximately 60 different varieties of pumpkin

This is an older post from 2019 describing how I garden, which is chaos gardening.

I grow many different types of potatoes. To grow potatoes one needs seed potatoes which can be bought at big box stores, greenhouses, or in Canada Eagle Seed Potatoes . Norlad: Early red skinned, white on the inside potatoes. Yukon Gold: Yellow skin and flesh. Russet: starchy, netted brown skin, and white on the inside. Russian Blue: Blue on the outside and inside. Amarosa: fingerling potato with a smooth bright red skin, and deep red flesh. Linzer Delikatess: they have ye

I love growing hot peppers, but I don't like eating hot peppers! The hottest pepper is the Carolina Reaper at 1.5-2.2 million scoville units. Pepper spray has 5.3 million scoville units. When looking at the scoville scale you'll find that peppers tend to vary in their heat units. My theory is because of the ripeness factor and if you eat the seeds or not. I sell Carolina Reapers, but I make sure I warn people that it's a risky endeavor. On the tamer side is sweet bell p

It's the start of garlic season in Manitoba and there's tons of questions on Facebook about what garlic scapes are. This kind of scape is not a scapegoat, this scape is delicious in many different ways. How to use scapes? Pesto , Relish , in stir fries, Pickled Scapes (this recipes is for beans, so just substitute the beans for scapes), garlic scape butter, deep fry them, garlic scape hummas, ....... There are hundreds of ways to use scapes. If you're growing garlic an

I grow 3 types of onions: red, yellow (sweet Spanish), and white. Onions tend to be a staple that everyone uses in cooking. Personally I dislike onions and if I find them in my food I will pick them out. Though I do love onion rings, mmm. Common onions are normally available in three colour varieties. Yellow onions, are full-flavoured and are the onions of choice for everyday use, with many cultivars bred specifically to demonstrate this sweetness. Yellow onions turn a ric