Local Harvest Gardening

Thanks again Dan for your suggestions. We've purchased some form of overhead misters as you suggested and we do intend to use them this year. Now we're wondering what is the maximum temperature that you will allow your greenhouses (devoted to growing roma tomatoes) before you need to cool the enviro...

Thank you for your thoughts Dan. We just transplanted our seedling onions and leeks. Our first carrots are also making an appearance. Further to your comments. We have raised beds that are 18 inches above the ground. The soil is not compacted as it is never walked on. In the fall we cover our beds w...

Hello again Dan. Enjoyed your webinar on growing sun-loving plants. Looking forward to more on this topic especially the pruning of cukes in the future. Right now, we've got our heirloom italian roma tomatoes planted in our greenhouse and as you suggested we've also planted two new varieties (Hungar...

Hello Dan, I am asking Damien to add a photo of our home-garden greenhouse for you to review and perhaps, given your great deal of experience, you'll be able to make some suggestions to what we have already tried (as recorded in my previous post) . Just this past week even with the vent windows on t...

Hello Jack, thanks for your response. I'd like to contact the individual you mentioned "Devon" in Aldergrove, as he might have some fig trees we'd be interested in. Can you send me the link to either his website, e-mail address, phone number or business name?? I'd really appreciate having ...

Thank you Jack & Andrew for your reply. Its good to know that our crop failure was not our failure as gardeners!

Hello, we have been growing winter cauliflower (Galleon - Westcoast seeds) and winter sprouting purple broccoli ( Santee- Westcoast seeds) for a number of years. We start the seedlings in July and transplant out into a garden bed late in the summer. Here are the preventative measures we take for the...

We need help with greenhouse issues: a) We grow our tomatoes, cukes, melons and eggplants directly into beds in our greenhouse which receives daylight from the morning until 6pm in the evening. Ideal or not??? this past summer was extremely hot. All of our plants struggled even with multiply waterin...

Hello, We would like to plant a fig tree that would produce fruits for harvest in August. We have one fig tree that doesn't produce its fruit until mid September when we are plagued by lots of wet weather and cooler temperatures. At this time of the year in the Westcoast (we live in Richmond) what f...

Hello, We would like to plant a fig tree that would produce fruits for harvest in August. We have one fig tree that doesn't produce its fruit until mid September when we are plagued by lots of wet weather and cooler temperatures. At this time of the year in the Westcoast (we live in Richmond) what f...