Changes
It’s been quite a while since we’ve updated the site, we’ve been super busy lately… the last couple months have brought a lot of change our way.
It’s exciting to let you all know that we’ve moved to a new province and a more rural area of the country. It’s hard to think of the gardens we’re leaving - all the work we put into them, but thrilling to think about future plans for bigger and better.
We’re renting a house on 4 acres of land with a huge backyard and permission to put in a garden, so I look at last season’s endeavors as a learning experience.
We made the mistake of over-planting, which caused the zucchini leaves to shade everything else in that bed -mainly carrots I believe. The 2 carrots we did get were short and stubby - a result of raised beds that weren’t dug deep enough, perhaps? The zucchinis we did pull must have weighed about 4-5 pounds easily and were the length of my entire forearm, we ended up with quite a few. The green and cayanne peppers also did well, as did the herbs, which are hopefully now being enjoyed by the new tenants.
I think our raspberry plant died, but I couldn’t tell because we didn’t stake or cage the tomatoes so they all ended up falling down and most rotted on the ground.
We’ll do things properly this time round, now that we know what not to do. It is getting cold here, and they’re expecting snow tonight so no outdoor garden yet, but the house we rented has a garage with a large picture window in it so I’m thinking of planting shelves of lettuce. I wonder if it can stand cold temperatures. I think the garage is insulated but it’s defiantly not heated. Herbs are another thing I’d like to grow over the winter - they’re too expensive to buy in the store.
If anyone has any other ideas, please share them, we’d love to hear what all our readers think 
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