hi from Northern Ontario

Hi all! Glad to find this community

We recently moved back to the north from southern Ontario, so am having to re-learn a whole lot of things I took for granted when gardening.  Just a couple of raised beds and a tiny greenhouse/coldframe for the moment, but our intention is ultimately to have enough garden to feed the two of us, along with some chickens and ducks, and move off-grid as much as is practical for us.  Looking forward to learning and sharing!

Welcome!

Hi!

Welcome!

Hi Mel, welcome aboard!

How far north? Shield and peat bog country? How's your soil, and how's your soil pH?

Douglas... Sudbury area, so yes definitely on the shield! I actually grew up further north, so i was aware of the climate here, but i wasn't a gardener back then.

I'm working in raised beds and grow bags with purchased soil from a local greenhouse (we just got here in January, and this isn't a long-term home, so not much time to get things set up or build my own soil.) I'm calling this year an experiment and only grew a small assortment of things

Nice work!

May I respectfully ask if you are upwind or downwind of The Superstack?

Edit: Nice to see growers messin' with amaranthus. We have some pretty cool hybrids growing here. Probably not the super edible variants but they jazz up the place nicely.

I don't even know, but the area doesn't smell like it did 30 years ago (and that's a good thing!)

The amaranth is quite dramatic isn't it? That's  "Love Lies Bleeding" and "Hot Biscuit" behind it. They were definitely more than I expected! Nice to have something exceed expectations,  as I also had some colour disappointment... the nasturtiums that are bright red were supposed to be "black velvet" (while I wasn't expecting a true black, I wasn't looking for BRIGHT red either!)