Rossdale Farm: I have seen a lot of posts on Facebook gardening groups with concerns about water for the upcoming gardening season. With declarations of droughts already in place before the growing season even starts, and warnings about how severe the wild fire season will be, I understand the concern about having enough water to...
Rossdale Farm – One of the best parts of no till gardening is weeding!! In my 26,000 sq ft garden, I spend roughly 1 hour every two weeks weeding! Contrast that weeding all day, everyday all summer before I switched to no till gardening! Before I finished the whole garden, the weeds were already back...
Rossdale Farm – Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, radish and kohlrabi are all members of the Brassicaceae family. Another member of this family is canola. Plants in the same families are susceptible to the same diseases and insects. What does this mean as a gardener on the Canadian prairies? The insects and diseases that affect canola...
Rossdale Farm – No till gardening is weird and very different from what we all grew up learning about gardening. Covering your soil with mulch? Not tilling and keeping the same rows year after year? I finally decided to try one small corner of my garden. I hauled mulch out in my mini van to...
Rossdale Farm – I grew up on a mixed farm; beef and grain. I grew up riding on the open air swather asking my dad if he ever got bored riding over the same land, multiple times a year, year after year. His response surprised me. How could I ever be bored Kim? Look –...
Rossdale Farm – I grew up on a farm. Whether I am a fourth or fifth generation farm girl is up for some debate. My great great grandfather purchased the homestead that became Ross Farms. He didn’t farm it though. He also purchased a quarter a mile to the west and farmed there. His son...
Rossdale Farm – I have always loved growing food. The taste, the time spent outdoors, the individual quirks of each vegetable in the garden. But for a long time in my life, I thought I hated gardening. Enter no till. It removes the labour. There is very little weeding as annual weeds are blocked from...
Mannville, AB