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May garden update: Seedlings!

Seedlings, grow your own, home gardening, home garden

CF / May 20th, 2013 / 17 Comments

Last week, I wrote about getting the garden plots ready with the right kind of soil. We ended up choosing a mix of basic potting soil, compost and manure. Nothing fancy, but it should get the job done. The next step was the fun part – getting the plants in! Brian and I had already talked a bit about what plants we wanted to grow and what combination of plants to get. We don’t save...

Posted in: Home Tagged with: apartment gardening, Gardening in the city, home garden, how to plant a garden, seedlings

May garden update part 1: Soil!

gardening, choosing the right soil, growing your own food, community garden, gardening

CF / May 10th, 2013 / 10 Comments

There’s so many things that I love about growing my own food. It’s a great learning experience, a great way to get outside, and oh man… home grown tomatoes. Enough said. 2012 was an AWESOME gardening year for me and Brian. We had an epic balcony garden for the first time ever and we finally got into a community garden. We started planning out our garden for 2013 a few weeks...

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Updates: March 3 -9

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Brian / March 9th, 2013 / 5 Comments

Don’t forget to enter our exclusive, Facebook only contest! Head over to our Facebook Page for details and you could win an iPod shuffle. We’re also co-hosting a Canon Rebel DSLR camera giveaway, don’t forget to enter! After a successful blogger meet up last week, we’re spending this weekend getting some mundane tasks done. As we wrote about in our goal setting post, we’re...

Posted in: Weekly Updates Tagged with: do-it-yourself, DSLR camera giveaway, goal setting, home garden, ipod shuffle giveaway, is another woman threatening your career?, link love, RRSP, self directed brokerage, staggered crops, weekly links

August garden update

CF / August 15th, 2012 / 21 Comments

It’s finally gotten warm and sunny here in Vancouver, BC. That means good times are coming for my garden, right? Well let’s see…! First, the balcony plants! The Beans – … Seriously? After the toxic mushroom incident, I changed out much of the soil in the bean planter. As a result, the beans have gotten taller and more bean-like. A few flowers bloomed. And then…...

Posted in: General Tagged with: apartment gardening, Gardening in the city, growing herbs, herb garden, home garden