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In 2019 we decided we had had enough of battling the dandelions and creeping buttercup in our lawn and felt the space would be better served growing food and flowers for ourselves and our community.

On cool spring days check your daffodils for bumble bee bums! I found these on a neighbourhood walk 😍
03/21/2024

On cool spring days check your daffodils for bumble bee bums! I found these on a neighbourhood walk 😍

An interesting article I just read on loathsome knotweed. I like the line "if you can't beat it, eat it"!
02/03/2024

An interesting article I just read on loathsome knotweed. I like the line "if you can't beat it, eat it"!

Jaune flamme. Ask anyone who has grown this tomato if they will be growing it again and I bet they will say "Yes!" Its ...
06/08/2023

Jaune flamme. Ask anyone who has grown this tomato if they will be growing it again and I bet they will say "Yes!" Its an open pollinated heirloom variety. It's gorgeous. It's delicious. It's productive! I've got 2 left in my stand.

Triangle Flashback Calendula (aka pot marigolds) Is beautiful, low maintenance, and has many medicinal benefits. I've g...
06/08/2023

Triangle Flashback Calendula (aka pot marigolds)

Is beautiful, low maintenance, and has many medicinal benefits. I've got lots! It's on my stand with some blue sea holly, columbine, sweet alyssum and some veggies like tomatoes, eggplant and bronze fennel.

Did a spot of weeding this weekend!
05/28/2023

Did a spot of weeding this weekend!

There's a couple peppers left and a good selection of heirloom tomatoes and eggplant. I've also put out some flowers. ...
05/24/2023

There's a couple peppers left and a good selection of heirloom tomatoes and eggplant.

I've also put out some flowers. I've got:
Sweet Alyssum
Black prince Snap dragons
Blue Sea Holly
Probably purple (but could be black barllow) columbine.

The columbine isn't labeled yet but it's on the bottom wedged between the micro tomatoes and the snap dragons.

Tomatoes, micro tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are out! $2 each. Most are heirloom varieties. All are open pollinated. ...
05/13/2023

Tomatoes, micro tomatoes, peppers and eggplants are out! $2 each. Most are heirloom varieties. All are open pollinated.

Varieties:

Cherry tomatoes:
-Evil olive (Green)
-Sunrise Bumblebee (Orange striped)
-Purple Bumblebee (Purple striped)
-Barrys Crazy (red)

Salad/plum Tomatoes
-Blush (yellow/pink)
-Black Vernissage (dark red striped)
-Brad's Atomic plum (yellows Green oranges)
-Golden Canary (yellow pointed)
-Nepal (red)
-Wapsipinicon Peach (peachy yellow)

Slicers
-Berner Rosen (red)
-Jaune Flamme (yellow out, red in)

Large/Beefsteak
-Black Beauty (black)
-Old German (Orange and yellow)
-Granny's Throwing Tomato (red)

Micro tomatoes- great for 1+ Gallon pots
All Cherry sized fruit except Groovy tunes)
-Fat frog (green)
-Vilma (red)
-Venus (Orange yellow)
-Rosy Finch (pink)
-Adrina (red)
-Groovy tunes (red striped golf ball sized)
-Red Balcony Miracle (red)
-Golden Balcony Miracle (yellow)
-Pinocchio Orange (orange)
-Aztec (yellow)
-X-Mas Tree (red)

Peppers
-Red Shepherd
-Gatherers Gold
-Jimmy Nardello
-Midnight Dream
-Petit Marseilles

Eggplant
-Black Beauty
-Japanese egg
-Turkish Orange
-Listada de Gandia
-Ping Tung
-Melanzana Rossa di Rotonda

Update: these are all sold out. I just put out all my other plants though. Good Morning!I put out some Venus, Vilma, Re...
05/12/2023

Update: these are all sold out. I just put out all my other plants though.

Good Morning!

I put out some Venus, Vilma, Red Balcony Miracle, and Golden Balcony Miracle micro tomato plants that I don't have time to transplant. They're on sale at 3 for $5.

I'll be putting out my Indeterminate tomatoes, more varieties of larger micros, peppers and eggplants soon. I'll also have some blue sea holly.

2023's Tomato Roster!I'll have extra plants available of all these in later spring for sale in my road-side stand. *I ha...
03/12/2023

2023's Tomato Roster!

I'll have extra plants available of all these in later spring for sale in my road-side stand.

*I have seeds for the ones with stars available in the stand now*

-CHERRIES-
*Sunrise Bumblebee*
Daterini
Evil Olive
Barry's Crazy
Purple Bubblebee

-SALAD-
*Black Vernissage* my favourite tomato!
Nepal
Wapsipinicon Peach

-PLUM-
Blush
Brad's Atomic (wasn't grape sized for me)
Golden Canary

-SLICER-
Berner Rosen
Black Beauty
*Jaune Flamme*

LARGE
Old German
Granny's Throwing Tomato (has a funny name🤷‍♀️)

MICRO BALCONY/CONTAINER PLANTS
X-mas tree
Minibel
Bajaja
Vilma
Rosy Finch
Aztec
Venus
Miracle Golden
Miracle Red
Pinocchio orange
Groovy Tunes

I have other tomato seeds available now too but I'll make a whole new post for that.

Seeds are $2/pack + you can choose one free pack from the free pack bin with your purchase.

The peas and broad beans went in yesterday. With the added bonus that I had a little helper. I'm experimenting with pre...
02/12/2023

The peas and broad beans went in yesterday. With the added bonus that I had a little helper. I'm experimenting with presoaking some seeds and not soaking some instead of succession planting, as I have no time for extras this year.

Step 3 in planning my 2023 gardenWhen to plant!Have you seeded anything yet?!So I've decided what to plant now I need to...
01/18/2023

Step 3 in planning my 2023 garden

When to plant!

Have you seeded anything yet?!

So I've decided what to plant now I need to organize the timing of it all. This changes from year to year for me depending on the successes and failure of the previous year. I have a few things I reference. In order 9f importance:

1 My own notes from previous years, on phenological indicators, on discussions with other gardeners in the area.
2 the farmers almanac schedule (is often a bit early for some things for me)
3 West Coast Seeds planting guide (is often a couple weeks late for me)
4) Charles Dowdings planting schedule. (Is a bit later in his climate, especially in late spring, but I like his succession planting tips)

I take all these and make notes on when to plant each thing, then create a calendar of when to sow them based on rough month and phenological indicators to watch for. My daughter helped me with this one ;).

This year I'm trying to sow as much as I can direct S I found the last 2 years trying to juggle 3 kids, a full time job, and a big garden too stressful for my seedlings always waiting to be transplanted. So there are going to be a few experiments this year with brassicas and beans. I found the lettuce I sowed last year did way better sowed directly so I'm not going to bother fiddling with it this year.

I've started some lettuce and micro tomatoes in my click and grow. I find this system keeps everything way too wet. Anyone have a different one that's better?

Happy New Year!Step 2 of 2023 garden planning. The when and how. Is there anything you start in January? For me its hot...
01/02/2023

Happy New Year!

Step 2 of 2023 garden planning. The when and how.

Is there anything you start in January?

For me its hot peppers, some brassicas, and some flowers.

What and when is the first thing you direct sow?

I seed my first peas, radishes and lettuces in mid February once I've got some of my compost spread.

As for the planning process; after listing all the stuff I wanted to grow this year, and checking to see if I have the seeds, I check my notes from precious years to see when the best time and what the best method to plant them is.

I then gather all the seeds and put them in these photo boxes. Start indoors on the left, and direct sow boxes on the right.

This month I'm doing an experiment and I'm tossing some peas, radish, and lettuce seeds that I have lots of in a few different spots in the garden to see when they begin to sprout. I have a calendar of phenological indicators in my binder, but it's nice to get hints from the same type of thing I want to grow and to check my garden for micro climates.

I'll do a post later on phenological indicators as I use nature's cues to tell me when to plant instead of calender dates. It will be a much more trustworthy method in the coming years as the climate changes.

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