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LOL...I'll just show hubby your garden in the winter...maybe all that snow will remind him what it was like to live in Canada!

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Well this is Mr. Fluidp,

I would be very happy to consider adoption, if you will weed and shovel snow. You might have to pack some fire wood too.. LOL, LOL, I am very happy you all like the pics. We have a lot more. We see the extreme seasons and we see extreme temp changes in one day, thats what makes it so hard to garden. But I am building us a nice BIG greenhouse for next year. We will keep you posted, Cheers from the Cariboo

Here in Washington State, we have weather pretty much like you do there,..my garden is at 1600 square feet with 7 foot fencing around it with electric fence on the outside of that,....do you have issues with deer and raccoons like we do here? Beautiful country there you have,...oh,...go Red Wings!. I am a Detroiter as well!

Handsome garden and set up... and looks like you might have an adoption ready NickieL ready to be your garden slave too! LOL!

Good work and well done. And... Fluidp... now that you are more focussed on the veggie gardening as opposed to ornamentals and flower beds... don't you find it really rewarding? I know personally that I am much more "garden happy" in the veggie garden than I am messing with the flower beds.

Hi Detmurds, yes we have a LOT of deer here, moose and bears as well....the fencing helps a lot, and we have our dog roaming the property which helps as well. I don't think we have racoons here, I haven't seen any.

Some people here have a problem with gophers, I sure hope they don't come over here!

Hi DoubleD, oh yes we are both finding the garden very rewarding. Our goal is to become as self sufficient as possible, and the garden will help a lot. We will be doing a lot of canning this summer I think, and it will be great to see all the jars sitting in the pantry!

And, in time, maybe next year, I will be able to add a few more flowers and a shrub bed or two!

I showed this to my DH and after we gasped and gaped, he said
"-----holes" and left the computer

Ya think he's jealous?
Absolutely beautiful.

Do you mulch? If so, with what?
If not, how do you control your weeds (hoe, hand pull, etc.)?

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That is one beautiful garden. In fact I shared the photos with my hubby and he said it's the nicest one he's seen to date! Beautiful layout, straight lines and all. That's how he wants ours to look some day.

Good job!!

Oh, and fluidp? I can relate to how your DH is finally enjoying the garden - my hubby is the same since this is the first year we are truly benefitting from the garden. We have been eating only garden grown produce for about a month now. We don't have enough to can this year, but next year hubby is intending to "bigger" our garden area. My DH is even more amusing than my children when he finds a veggie that is ready to harvest. The other day he was out there and said it was "like finding gold." LOL.

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Just beautiful. You must both be hardworkers because everything is as neat as a pin!

What is between the greenhouse and the berry garden?

How long have you been doing this? Or, maybe I should not ask this as it may depress a lot of us here. What zone are you considered to be in?

Yikes! Well, we were able to put in a lot of time getting it ready for planting, etc. And it took a long time to get it planted etc., but we aren't working jobs right now OFF the property. All our time is spent here, trying to get settled...

Yes I mulched with straw, this was the first time I tried it. It worked well, but I did not have enough straw, so I still do have to weed. I use my special hoe, lol, I think they call it a saddle hoe? It has a U shaped bottom on it, and I can weed pretty quickly down the rows with it.

Next year I want to get 5 bales of straw, this year I only got 2. When I realized I still needed more, they did not have any at the feed store.

That is so great! It seems to have happened the same way with my husband, now he loves to go out picking...and it is so nice to have them be willing to share in the work too.

Thank you...it's not that neat really. I should maybe take a close up picture! I have been gardening for a lot of years, but concentrated on flowers, shrubs etc., only putting in a small veggie garden.

We are in Zone 3 in British Columbia. Very challenging for me to learn how to garden here. Root crops all do very well, but there are many things we cannot grow without a greenhouse. And no one can seem to grow corn, which is a real disappointment to both of us. We have very cool temperatures at night, and can be very hot during the day. Apparently, many plants have problems with those temperature swings.

To the left of the greenhouse is one of the berry beds, altho I have my flowers in there too. There are raspberries (won't be picked until next year), highbush cranberries, parsley, garlic, blueberries, rhubarb. The strawberry beds are to the left of that.

The greenhouse is actually last year's chicken run. The little building with the blue roof is the old chicken coop, which still needs to be moved. Another thing on the list to do eventually!

mrs fluidp

Sure, you can grow corn in your location. You just have to be creative! I'm probably 5 or 6 hours north (driving) of you and get at least half a dozen ears out of about 10 plants (outside). This year I decided I would try some Giant corn variety (codename - Frankencorn!) inside my greenhouse (ceiling is about 12ft) and I would estimate the stalks being about 15ft tall (hard to tell because they bent and started to grow back down once they hit the roof). The picture below is from the begining of July.

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Taylormade, thanks for your post and the picture. We went over to your website yesterday and looked at the pictures, very nice!

Do you know what elevation you are at? I wonder if that may have something to do with it, we are at almost 3000 feet here. People have said the elevation drops once u go farther north. Friends who are about an hour southeast of us are at elevation of almost 4000 feet....and friends in Quesnel say we did not go far enough north, lol. Do you have the temperature swings that we seem to have? Hot hot hot during the day, then it really cools off at night.

At any rate, you've given me some hope, thank you for that!


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Hello Mrs. Fluidp

our local airport is at 2200ft but we are a lot closer to the ski hill which tops out at 6500ft, so I would have to guess that we are about 3000-3500ft on our plot.

I don't know, but the pictures you have would be a good argument that you moved to just the right place.

The temperature lately has been between the high twenties in the afternoon and down to lows of 4 to 6 in the morning. It's been feeling WAY too much like fall in the mornings!

If you look in the picture you will see a circular hole in the wall and that's where I hook up my wood stove to get a head start in the spring. Otherwise the seedlings take over my living room and any other southern facing window!.

Thank you about the website, my wife just started on it recently so I secretly put it on my signature and told her it's official now it on "Homesteading Today"!

Good luck with your crops and by the looks of your garden I don't think it will take too many experiments to get some corn happening!

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Fluidp,

Thank you, beautiful, I love your garden. You did a perfect job.

We drive by the lovely Caribou on our way to our homestead near Moberly Lake, 3 hours north of Prince George and 26 km north of Chetwynd.

Thanks again, keep up the great work,

Alex

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Taylormade, thanks for your reply - and it is good to know there is a real possibility of trying some corn next year! I will show my husband your picture, he has talked about putting a small woodstove in our future greenhouse.

I hope your wife keeps up with her site, we liked it!

Thanks Alex, for your comments.... I was up your way about 7 years ago, I think, we went on a tour of the dam up there, beautiful countryside!

That is just way too cool. Some of the cabage or lettuce looks like chickens at first glance. I had to grab my glasses and take a closer look.
Lord knows I wish mine looked that good. I let the weeds take over while fighting the war with the ground hogs and deer and now rabbits, but God willing, it will be fenced next year.

That is as pretty a garden as I have ever seen. Excellent work.
Are you open for tutoring, LOL.

Dennis