Joy of gardening

How to save cantaloupe seeds

Here's how I get my own cheap seed from cantaloupe we buy at the grocery store.Seeing I can't do any outdoor gardening I decided to do some experimenting with these seeds I saved.This is part one of three..will post the second and third part (germinating and planting) shortly

 This is the piece of cantaloupe I'm taking the seeds from

 Here I have the seeds and some pieces of fruit..next step they must be cleaned

 The seeds have been cleaned through a strainer

 Here I'm testing them to see which ones will sink and which ones will float

 I skimmed off the ones that floated 

 Here are my finished seeds..I'll let them dry before storing

Where cantaloupe grow

http://www.ganderbeacon.ca/News/Local/2013-10-02/article-3414285/Where-cantaloupe-grow/1

Perhaps Newfoundlanders have been talking themselves out of a bounty of fresh fruit all these years.

How to Build an Inexpensive Hoop-Style Greenhouse

http://www.albertahomegardening.com/how-to-build-an-inexpensive-hoop-style-greenhouse/

One of the most valuable assets in my garden is my greenhouse. It has allowed me to grow plants that I normally would not be able to grow, produce crops that the season is not usually long enough to produce, and protect my plants from frosts, hail, or other severe weather that normally would have destroyed my garden.

Niki Jabbour - The Year Round Veggie Gardener: Throwback Thursday - Edible Garden Edges

Niki Jabbour - The Year Round Veggie Gardener: Throwback Thursday - Edible Garden Edges: An edible edge of mixed baby lettuces - oak leaf, Black Seeded Simpson, red romaine, etc. Another snowy icy day. And more snow coming ...

Five ways to keep cheery on a winter’s day.

Five ways to keep cheery on a winter’s day

Pollinateing pumpkins

This is  how  I pollinate my female  pumpkin flowers. 

Wee bugs

A few visitors to the garden this summer.

Big turnips for winter

We are quite pleased with our turnip this year.They all grew to a nice size and the ones we've eaten were very tasty....

 Here are the jumbo turnips...weighing 8lbs each

I thought this one looked strange.

This was the only bad one in the bunch

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Last Tomatoes Of The Season

These are the last of my tomatoes ,they'll be taken inside to ripen.

They did ripen inside,some were left on the vine and some were put in brown paper bags.Problem is we have most of them eaten before I thought to a snap.We're always eating stuff around here!

"Digging in the rain"

You could say I'm sick of this rain ,dizzle and fog we've had for about 3 weeks .I took up the remainder of this bed of mixed carrots today,it was a bit dirty digging in the rain.

Onions and Potatos

Being a kitchen garden we harvest our vegetables when they are needed,we grew plenty of onions and potatos  and got loads of green onions(onion tops).

Growing Veggies in Kelp

Kelp has many uses in the nl kitchen garden. In fact pictured below is a raised bed made of all kelp/sea weed. As you can see these cabbages are growing vigorously in the kelp. I'm adding to this bed a few buckets at a time for next years growing

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