Through Nana's Garden Gate

Choosing a Greenhouse Watering System

As you build your own greenhouse or set up one you’ve purchased, one important item to include is a water system of some kind. It is much easier to install faucets and drains before building begins, rather than trying to find a watering solution later. Regardless of the type of watering system you use, you [...]

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The HyperTufa Manual

“The Hypertufa How-To Manual” is probably the most comprehensive eBook you’ll ever find on how to use hypertufa to make not only garden containers, but even decor and art for your garden, yard or… use your imagination!
In the manual, Claudia covers all the mixing, application and curing techniques you’ll ever need to know for any [...]

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How to Enjoy Earlier Garden Tomatoes

It can be a long stretch from the last windowsill-ripened tomatoes of the fall to the first vine-ripe fruits of summer. If you don’t like to settle for supermarket tomatoes, with their inferior taste and quality, then you probably would like to get a head start on this year’s tomatoes. With a bit of ingenuity [...]

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How Green is Your Greenhouse?

Greenhouses are a great way to grow quality healthy fruits and vegetable on your own all year round. Recently, growing your own natural and organic gardens has become more and more popular. So it comes as no surprise that many people are now building eco-friendly greenhouses to help grow safe, high quality fruits [...]

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The Best Recipe for Compost

Imagine yourself as a chef. To cook a delicious meal, you select the best ingredients and combine them in a certain way, and in measured quantities to create wonderful dishes. The same can be said when creating compost. Just like cooking, you are given the task of putting together in measured amounts the “green” and [...]

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New Beginnings

The cold snap of December has given way to cool and cloudy days of early January, when the temperatures rarely descend below freezing at night. Days are a mix of rainshowers and gray clouds that occasionally allow a bit of blue to peep through.
Here in the Gulf Islands of BC, small signs of spring are [...]

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Jump Start Spring With a Portable Greenhouse

Greenhouses are becoming more and more popular for home gardeners, many of whom are considering installing or building one. Since full-sized, regular greenhouses can quite be expensive and costly to maintain, it is probably impractical for home gardeners to build one.
However, there are new and inexpensive portable and mini greenhouses now available for one to [...]

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