What Actually Grows in a 95 Day Season
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’s Coffee Can Beans: Heirloom vs Hybrid Seeds
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 Seed Starting Timeline (and Why My Iowa One Didn’t Work Up Here)
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…