Ines Batterton
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If you’ve ever seen pictures of our garden or gardens we’ve planted, you’ll have noticed that there are lots of flowers and herbs mixed...
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Ines Batterton
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Get ready to grow a fall garden
For most vegetable gardeners August (and July) is the time to focus on tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. These three warm-season crops...
Ines Batterton
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Can I plant outside now? - Garden tasks for April
Hello kitchen gardeners, The days are getting warmer! Isn't it exciting? We measured temperatures around 15 degrees C already before the...
Ines Batterton
- Jan 8
- 2 min
Garden Cress - easy to grow with your kids
With being back to remote learning for our kids in the midst of January, it's tricky to keep our monkeys entertained sometimes, right?!...
Ines Batterton
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Watermelon homegrown in Ontario
Let's have a little bit of summer feeling at the end of November, shall we?! With organic homegrown Canadian watermelon that's surely...
Ines Batterton
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
Tipps for the Fall Garden
Hello kitchen gardeners, Fall is quite a busy time in the kitchen garden! Especially since we have had those mild conditions lately, it...
Ines Batterton
- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Hardening off? What's that?!
Hello kitchen gardeners, Did you enjoy that taste of summer during the past couple of weeks? We surely did and to be honest, we could not...
Ines Batterton
- Nov 18, 2021
- 5 min
July tasks and kitchen garden parties
Hello kitchen gardeners, Time flies during summertime in the garden. Didn't we just sow our seeds and plant our little seedlings? Most of...
Ines Batterton
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
The easy way to plant garlic
What's the best thing a gardener can do a day before HALLOWEEN? Correct! PLANTING some GARLIC. This mild October allowed us to...
Ines Batterton
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
It's cold at night for your baby plants!
Little tricks about how to protect your precious seedlings during frosty nights. I hope all of you enjoy this wonderful spring time right...
Ines Batterton
- Mar 5, 2021
- 3 min
It's seed starting time!
Hello kitchen gardeners, Did you ever get overwhelmed by all the gardening advice out there? Did you end up panicking that you did not...
Ines Batterton
- Jan 20, 2021
- 4 min
Natural and sustainable
Natural and sustainable - a little bit more about the concept of My Nordic Garden The past week was full of natural, sustainable and...
Ines Batterton
- Dec 31, 2020
- 4 min
It's all about kale
Review of one year with kale - tips, benefits and a recipe Kale was certainly one of the outstanding plants in our garden this year. No...
Ines Batterton
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
Cold frames, raised beds and garden magic
My Nordic Garden is finally out there for business! We are so pleased and excited, that it's hard to put words around it... It's like...
Ines Batterton
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
Kale - like in 'too much kale'
My first year experience with the abundance of kale plants and how we got a hold of the overwhelming harvest One day in July I went...
Ines Batterton
- Oct 24, 2020
- 6 min
My Nordic Garden - my little wild research lab
The idea of a scientific approach on gardening When I started my new garden, I was wondering about how many seeds I'd need for the amount...
Ines Batterton
- Oct 24, 2020
- 4 min
The whole story behind My Nordic Garden
The adventurous journey from Eastern Germany to Eastern Canada I think the whole story began with my mother and grandparents being...