Category: Garden
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How to Grow and Care for Acorn Squash
The photo above is of the last acorn squash plant we grew before we left Canada. We grow it in a raised garden bed that we made ourselves. In the garden bed we had two acorn and two small white pumpkin plants. We made made a trellis out of string an let them grow up…
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How to Grow Pumpkin Seedlings from a Store Bought Pumpkins
Pumpkins are a very versatile fruit that is commonly thought to as a vegetable. We often find pumpkins in the grocery store that we cant find seed packets for at the nursery or plant store. We like to try to grow them ourselves when we do find ones that we like at the grocery store.…
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How to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Containers
We have grown sweet potatoes in large and small containers and it can be done. The only difference between the two would be that with small containers you end up with small sweet potatoes. The photo above is from when we grow sweet potatoes in a hanging basket outside. The following information is about how…
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Growing Tomatillos In Containers
The photo above is of one of tomatillo plants we grew at our little chateau in Canada. Tomatillos like hot weather and lots of room to grow. We sprouted them in doors and put them in the green house in buckets durning the summer. Durning hottest part of the summer we sat them outside and…
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How to Grow Watermelon Radish
We just planted a new mini patch of watermelon radish in a small decorative wagon because are little garden thought it would look nice. It was a really cute idea and looks nice. What he doesn’t know is we have used the wagon to plant things in in the past. It’s prefect for fast growing…
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How to Harvest and Save Tomato Seeds.
Tomatoes are one of our favorite and most used fruits here in Our Little Chateau. They are sweet and tangy and go with almost everything, they are also tasty on there own. We eat a lot of different type of tomatoes from big to small, and in many different colors. For this reason we like…
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How to Grow Strawberry Plants Indoors.
Strawberries are a very important fruit in our little chateau. They can be grown outdoors seasonally but indoor they can fruit two to three times a year. For this reason we like to grow them both indoors and out. Growing strawberries indoor is a little different than growing them outside as they don’t need to…
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How To Grow Baby Carrots From Any Carrot Seed
Last summer the baby planted all of his carrots seeds from one packet in a small planter box in the garden late in the growing season. The result was cute little tiny baby carrots. The reason for this is that baby carrots like the ones you fine at the store are just full size carrots…
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Indoor Olive Tree Care
Another year as come and gone and with it has come the joys and challenges of growing an olive tree indoors. Lucky they only challenges we had last year was a bird flying by the window and taking our last olive branch with olives growing on it. Other than that an the day it dried out…
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Aloe Vera Plant Care
How To Care For Aloe Vera Plant We have a little Aloe Vera plant that is already producing its second set of pups. We transplanted the first set and now have little Aloe Vera babies all over the house and now we are about to have more. Aloe Vera is a wonderful plant that has…