Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Round about now many are thinking about spring. If you don’t go to a winter market, or have winter sales of any type, then you will be looking ahead to what SPIN-Farming calls a ” spring debut ” week. For...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Outdoor work has ended here in Saskatoon, and can now focus on indoor micro greens production. The advantage to this type of crop is that it allows you to ramp up production very quickly. Case in point, I got an...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Finally got to unload the 8,000 lbs. of storage potatoes that we harvested from our peri-urban plot. Did it with a few friends in about an hour, just before market on Sunday. Gail says there are still about 3,000- 4,000...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK I’m finding these indoor grow tables to be great for continuous tray-based production.  indoor trays allows for predictable production, especially important for standing orders from  restaurants, since you can’t let them down.  Table is the size of a pool table,...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK I have to deal with weed pressure with some of my crops, but I find simplest is best. With squash, I find weekly hoeings or tillings between squash plants, once they are showing, keeps the weeds at bay until plants...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Looking forward to another backyard harvest of arugula, cilantro and dill this week. Dill on left, two beds of cilantro in middle, and arugula on right. After this cut, arugula beds will be tilled in and replanted to another crop....
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK This is my segment-size (1,000 sq.ft.) peri-urban plot last week. After helping me harvest bunching onions, my second year intern, Samantha Benesh, planted beets and golden beets. The Earthway did a good job, and she has had no trouble mastering...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK My early potatoes are later than usual, but better late than never. This is a double segment size peri-urban site, (2,000 sq. ft.). that I will harvest this week. This crop should increase my market sales by 30%. I’ll sell them...
When SPIN develops a seed line, dill is sure to be in the “Just Great” offering. It checks all the boxes: easy to sell easy to process trouble-free  multi-cut potential relay potential This backyard 2 ft. x 25 ft.  bed is supplying me with dill now, and I have two...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK This back yard plot will provide my first carrot harvest. Due to the late spring, I’m a bit behind. These should be ready in a week or two. I will relay these 4 beds, which are 50 feet long, to...
