Author: Rebecca Last, Gardening at Last and Master Gardeners of Ottawa-Carleton. Published with permission This was an amazing year for tomatoes. My small garden has produced at least ten kilos so far, and we’re not done yet! But what to do with all that bounty? After all, one can only eat so many fresh tomatoes,…
The pineapple is the only edible bromeliad available today, and it offers many health benefits. It is a complex plant with dozens of individual flowerets that grow together to form the fruit. Each scale on a pineapple is evidence of a different flower. Pineapples stop ripening the minute they are picked. No particular way of…
Highbush blueberries are a common fruit grown in home gardens that can be used fresh or frozen. Blueberry bushes are long-lived plants with a lifespan similar to fruit trees. The berries are versatile and can be enjoyed fresh, used in desserts, or stored by canning or freezing. In addition, the plants provide ornamental value with…
I decided to make gooseberry jelly instead of jam as it takes less preparation time. The gooseberry gin that I made last year was delicious as well. Greetings fellow gardeners, It is officially summer, but we had some very cool weather in the past few days. Last Saturday I was working at a show and…
There is something about the fresh smell of a flowering lemon tree. Lush, dark green, oval leaves shining in the sunlight. Their fragrant, white blooms, sweet smelling and alluring quality makes one want to own their own tree. Too hard to do?
If you are picking squash, remember to let them cure for about a week. To cure a squash, you pick it and place it on your back step or in the basement for a week. Squash have a defense mechanism which is a compound that can give you a nasty rash. Greetings fellow gardeners, Thanksgiving…
The Coffee Tree plant – Coffea arabica, produces glossy, dark green, 4-5 inch leaves, dress this upright grower. With good care and a mature plant, small clusters of tiny white flowers develop at the leaf joints of new growth. As an extra plus, the tiny flowers produce a sweet jasmine-like fragrance. Have you ever considered growing a…
Suggested links for everything Apple. Thank you Jenny!
By Guest Author Michael Shewmake. Can you grow your own coffee beans at home? Absolutely — it’s just a question of conditions and commitment. Serious coffee drinkers think nothing of grinding fresh, whole coffee beans every time they brew. Some people like an even deeper level of commitment by roasting their own beans at home…
Of all things necessary to grow fruit trees – or anything else, for that matter – soil is perhaps one of the most overlooked and underappreciated. Soil plays a pivotal role in the health of fruit trees and in how much fruit they’ll bear. pH is very important for trees.
Dehydration is the best way to store food for the long-term. We scoured our favorite homesteading sites to find the best recipes for the foods you’re most likely to want to preserve.
To get a great crop of blueberries every year, one also has to prune the shrubs every winter. Not spring or fall, but during winter when the plant is dormant. Pruning is a little tricky in the beginning, but the video below from the University Of Maine explains clearly how to prune blueberries and why.
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