When we bought this place, the “garden” was a patch of lawn with clay underneath so dense you could bounce a shovel off it. Mark took one look at me trying to dig and said, “We’re building raised beds.” Best…
When Grandpa passed, my mom found a handful of his bean seed in one of those Folgers cans and mailed it to me in Ontario in a ziplock bag. I think there were maybe 30 beans. I planted every single…
Iowa spoiled me. Back home, you could plant pretty much anything in May and have a jungle by August. Then I moved to a place where the average frost free season is somewhere around 95 to 110 days, and some…
Grandpa Hank kept his bean seeds in Folgers cans on a shelf in the basement. Each one had masking tape on the lid with the variety and year written in pencil. Some of those beans had been in the family…
My first spring in Thunder Bay, I started my tomatoes on March 1st. Same as Grandpa always did back in Iowa. By the time it was safe to plant them out, which up here was June 10th that year, they…