Introduction

Hello,


This blog is going to be a place for me to enter information about trying to grow a vegetable garden (and some flowers) in a backyard in the middle of Winnipeg, and to help others do the same. More than anything, right now it's just a place for me to store important information so that next year I can try to not make the same mistakes twice, or repeat the good things!


Hopefully if you're reading this you can get some good information for your garden or just enjoy reading along.


It's not even time to plant starters indoors yet so blog posts will be rare for now. I will just be adding helpful links on the right hand side of the page.


A little information: Winnipeg is in Zone 3 (a or b depending on your exact location). Final frost date is usually around the May long weekend, farmers almanac says the last frost is May 24 and first frost is September 22, with a growing period of 121 days. That depends on the year.  Plus, some vegetables like tomatoes and peppers don't want to be out until it's warm at night and that put's you into the start of June. To make up for the short season we have very long days, so it works out to a reasonable season.


 It can be hard to find information for planting in this area, and googling "northern gardening" will sometimes get you results in the northern USA, which makes me laugh every time. Every youtube video you watch with somebody telling you when to plant needs to be taken with a grain of salt because many of them have their full garden in before we even start the cold crops.


I have a reasonable planting area for the size of my small yard, and with the addition of a couple raised beds this spring hope to have a planting area of around 36 sq ft. This is enough space to plant most of the vegetables our family eats most. This year we are also trying two melon varieties and a patio cucumber in large pots for the first time.


Anyways, there will eventually be a list of helpful links on the right hand side of the page for garden planning, information, Youtube videos, etc.