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Hopping Mad! What To Do When Grasshoppers Move Into The Vegetable Garden
If you have a garden, then chances are you have grasshoppers! This common pest is easy to spot, jumping from plant to plant as it feeds on tender leaves. I experienced a particularly nasty grasshopper infestation in my garden last summer. By the end of the growing season, my zucchini barely had any leaves left! […]
How To Make A Vegetable Spiral Garden
Three-dimensional planting is the perfect solution for a small garden. Growing ‘up’ creates more planting surface and, ultimately, more yield for vegetables. The best way to think of a vegetable spiral is as an old-fashioned sundial, which indicates the time of day by the position of shadows and the sun’s rays on the surface of […]
First Light Farm Strives For Nutrition And Food Security in Revelstoke
Extraordinary circumstances sometimes have a way of sparking us into action; for Jesse Johnston-Hill and Chris Rubens, the COVID-19 outbreak pushed them to make their dream of becoming vegetable farmers a reality. Residents of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Rubens is a professional skier, and Johnston-Hill a chef at a ski resort. They were both working in […]
It’s Propagation Planning Time
If you’re new to gardening, or have always bought your vegetable seeds at local stores, you might not be aware that the January 2nd is opening day of garden planning season – not when the racks appear at your garden center or hardware store in spring. If you wait until it’s almost time to plant outdoors, […]