This year I’ve decided to keep track of our garden-related spending, and compare those costs to our yield. Our goal is to be able to grow some of our own vegetables for the same cost or less than purchasing organic vegetables. The Numbers Expenses January 09: $72.53 February 09: $10.30 March 09: $461.39 Total To [...]

This year I’ve decided to keep track of our garden-related spending, and compare those costs to our yield. Our goal is to be able to grow some of our own vegetables for the same cost or less than purchasing organic vegetables. February was fairly quiet on the gardening front. I planted two packets of onion [...]

As I mentioned, I’m going to keep track of our spending on our garden this year, and compare it to our yield. Our goal is to be able to grow our own vegetables for the same cost or less as purchasing organic vegetables. The Numbers Garden expenses in January 2009: $72.53 (Short and sweet for [...]

I know that I am spending way too much time thinking about gardening given the month (January), the temperature (-25°C), and the snow (30 cm). However, I have a legitimate excuse for my gardening obsession right now: an issue of Canadian Gardening – a lovely gift from almost two years ago – arrived in the [...]

We’re in the middle of a good cold snap here, with the thermometre showing about -30°C (-22°F). Naturally, then, I’m thinking about gardening. It’s the one topic that most takes my mind off of the thermometre and yet another day with two preschoolers who have definitely got cabin fever. My daydreams of green, growing things [...]

A week into January and I’m ready for winter to be over. One of the things that helps me get through the months of January and February (which, you’ve got to admit, have very little going for them) is planning my garden. This year I’m starting in earnest even earlier, because I’m going to try [...]