Gardening Tips and Tricks

Tips for growing your garden in the northern climate from Calgary Alberta. Check out my list of favourite seed companies in Canada, the best fertilizer for your vegetable garden and my free printable companion planting chart Learn how to figure out what garden zone you are in, find out the best time to plant your garden in Alberta along with so many more useful gardening tips!

Seed Stratification vs. Scarification: Techniques for Successful Planting

Learn about seed cold stratification vs seed scarification. Seed stratification refers to exposing seeds to a period of cold temperatures.

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How to Store Carrots Over Winter

If you have a cold room, carrots can be stored in slightly moistened sand or wood shavings. Without a cold room, it is necessary to store ca

How to Prevent Potato Scab

A specific strain of bacteria is responsible for causing potato scab to form on potatoes. Prevent potato scab by lowering soil pH with sulf

Hydroponic Grow Systems for Growing Vegetables

What gardener does not want to keep growing food all year round? Maybe you thought this was not possible in the zone 3 gardening...

My Personal Garden Soil Analysis & Solutions

Suggestions for amending prairie vegetable garden soil with high pH, low nitrogen levels and high salinity.

4 Signs it is Time to Repot Your Seedlings

As your plants or seedlings grow, it is important to recognize the signs of when to transplant the seedlings into bigger pots. Learn to...

Growing a Three Sisters Garden

What is a 3 Sisters Garden? A "3 sisters" garden is composed of corn, pole beans, and squash. These three vegetables are grown together...

A Guide to Vegetable Gardening For Beginners

Learn how to grow vegetables in a garden or container. Find out what seed varieties grow well, the best soil for growing veggies and when to

Tips for Gardening in Alberta

Gardening in Alberta can be challenging. Here are some of the best vegetables to grow in Alberta along with herbs to grow in Alberta.

My Favourite Products for Growing Indoors

Supplies I use for starting seeds and growing indoors including an indoor greenhouse, grow lights, a light timer and a mat.

How to Store Vegetable Seeds

Learn how to store vegetable seeds for long term at home. Storing seeds over the winter properly improves germination rates.

How to Improve Your Garden Soil

Learn how to test and amend your vegetable garden soil. Find amendment ideas for your alkaline or acidic soil.

Natural Weed Killer

This natural weed killer recipe uses vinegar, Epsom salts and dish soap. See the results on my weeds sprayed with natural weed killer.

What is the Best Soil for a Raised Vegetable Garden?

The best soil for vegetable garden in raised bed is a mix of 1/3 topsoil, 1/3 compost and 1/3 peat moss (or coconut fiber).

Winter Sowing in Zones 3 & 4

Find out how to winter sow seeds in milk jugs or other containers. Included is a winter sowing seed list.

About Krista Green

Krista lives on a 4 acre homestead in the foothills of Calgary, Alberta, along with her husband and 3 children. Vegetable gardening and self-sufficiency have been a passion of Krista's for a number of years. Krista's aspires to share her gardening knowledge with others, to help them navigate growing vegetables in the often challenging zone 3 gardening climate.

Krista helped in the family vegetable garden growing up in Vernon BC and then later near Calgary Alberta. At the age of 16, she started a job at a greenhouse in the Calgary area. She continued working there (some years only part time) for the next 10 years. As an adult, Krista has always grown a vegetable garden in whatever space was available. Some years that meant a garden bed in the local community garden.

Growing healthy, organic, fresh food for her family has always been important to Krista, and through this website she hopes to help each of you who strive to do the same.