You’ve Landed in My Country Garden!
Wow am I glad you’re finally here…sometimes I feel like gardening is a solo sport and it’s always great to share this passion with others who have a similar interest in country gardens specifically.
Flowers, Vegetables and More!
This section of GoodByeCityLife began as a self-reliance resource for country living – you know, growing your own vegetables, harvesting honey, making maple syrup, etc. but when my passion for a quaint country garden hit me, I couldn’t help but want to put in a few more flowers and garden decor item into the mix!
So this section grows alongside me, into my decorative garden, gardening to attract more wild birds, and flower garden interests – hopefully soon I’ll get my head and hands out of the garden and into these pages to create better resources for you.
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This year I’ve met quite a few people who are taking their green thumbs a few steps further – into environmentally friendly and organic gardening. It has taken a long time in Canada, but people are starting to see the light – that organic may cost a little more, but it keeps better in your fridge. Add locally grown to the organic mix and you can really save some money. Less waste for the compost bin anyway! Get growing organic and you might even be able to make a living from your small farm garden.
It isn’t so easy here, with such a short growing season, to get fresh organic vegetables from our soil for more than a few months, so I added a greenhouse. Considering the length of growing it added to my year, it has paid for itself in the first year and given me a chance to keep flowers in my life a little longer every season as well. The best part is? I purchased my little greenhouse from an environmentally friendly company – everything they sell has to be easy on our earth.
Find them here, at the link I sourced my greenhouse from:
Country Gardening
To be honest once you’ve picked fresh fiddleheads by a spring stream, made your own maple syrup, and grown a vegetable or herb garden once, it doesn’t seem like there’s much to share on the hobby of self-reliant living or living off the land.
It’s fun, yes, but for us, in northern Canada, I find it far more challenging to get the flower gardens in bloom before we’re hit with frost yet again. I’ve had frost on the 8th of June here and as early again as the 10th of September. For this reason I fell in love with the old country garden styles – where very beautiful perennials and very fast annuals make that corner of our property a wonderful display – even if only for a month or two.
So have a look around, read a few articles and before you go bookmark this page because more articles on the country gardening trend are coming soon!
Laura Childs
Country Gardening in the North Editor
p.s. I just found the most awesome country garden statues on the bird garden site! They’re reasonably priced and I even found some with free shipping!
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