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Kitchen gardens design by Ana Valean
Build the soil. Sow a seed. Feed the soul.

04/06/2022

Hello garden friends!

A garden story is slowly moving to a new Facebook and Instagram page and I hope I can take you all with me.

I would love to have you come over, "on the other side" so we can all stay in touch.

In the past years my growing space was about 500 sq. ft. This year.....🥁🥁🥁 about a quarter acre,
I have to confess that I am both excited and scared about this new project. But mostly, I am very grateful to have the opportunity to embark on such a journey.

Thank you for sticking with me for the past years and I look forward to share with you all the successes, failures and lessons learnt in this first year of farming.

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04/04/2022

The moment I've been waiting for is finally here...the tulips are sprouting!
I have planted around 1200 bulbs early November last year and now they are starting to show their nose through the 'still' frozen ground.

I am so excited about it, and I am anticipating that so will be the large population of deers that are roaming on my property..😁
So, I took some extra measures, until we build the deer fence, and caged the bed of tulips with 1 inch chicken wire.
In about a month or so, there will be hundreds of colorful eye-catching tulips ready to harvest!

03/08/2022

Update!
My ginger babies are growing. They are one month and 5 days old and they are doing fantastic. 100% germination rate and I have tasted the leaves and they have the nicest and freshest ginger aroma.
The second picture is how the farm looks like at the moment... still covered in snow, but it started to melt quite a bit with the warm weather from the last few days.
Picture #3... we have started working on one of our first big projects of the year - digging a pond.
Farming season at farm has officially started!
I can't wait to have you smell and taste everything that we will be growing on our land this year!

03/04/2022

I love corn! Sweet corn, pop corn, flour corn (polenta is my thing!) This year I am growing 4 different varieties of corn - two of sweet corn, one of glass corn (perfect for popping) and one of heirloom flour corn. I have a few months now available to research on how I can two grow the glass and the flour corn so they don't cross pollinate in the filed because I want to collect seeds for next year.
With the state of affairs in the world right now, collecting seeds and focusing on storage crops, has become a priority for many of us.
I am curious to hear from you guys... have you taken any steps to ensure food security for your family?
(Please know that everything I will be growing will be available for sale. At the moment I am working on an online store were I will be uploading my inventory as soon as I will have veggies and flowers for sale, and I will be delivering weekly in Pointe Claire).

03/01/2022

Today is the first day of March and we have well over 2 ft of snow on our garden beds. At this time of the year I honestly find it very hard to believe that one day, not that far away in the future, we will be enjoying fresh veggies and flowers grown by us, here in Canada.
Now, just close your eyes and imagine biting into a cucamelon.....feel its crunchiness, the fresh taste of cucumber with hints on lemon. Hold on to this feeling for a few more months, it will help you get trough the last stretch of the winter. I promise you, spring is coming, it always does.

02/25/2022

This year I am growing for the first time sunflowers. I have over 2000 seeds in 6 different varieties, all pollenless, from light to very dark colors. For the longest time I was not a fan of sunflowers, but I have a feeling I will learn to love them.
What are your thoughts on sunflowers?

02/23/2022

Can you smell it? It's mint. Yesterday I have sown my first batch of mint with the "winter sowing method". For those that are not familiar with this method, just look it up on YouTube. Although I was very reluctant to use this way of starting seeds, I have decided to give it a try. The method is very simple: put some soil in a clear plastic jug, spread the seeds on top of the soil and then place the jug outside. Now, I will pretty much forget about them for the next weeks/months as they don't require anything else. I don't think that this is a feasible method to start the seeds for a large scale operation, but it might be the best solution if you have a small garden and you don't have a growing rack. In these two jugs I have Echinacea Purpurea and mint.

02/07/2022

One tiny little soil block with an eryngium seedling.
I am so fascinated by it every time I look at it. If I play my cards right, this will grow in a large perennial plant that I will be enjoying for the years to come and you'll be seeing it in many of my bouquets.

I don't know if I have mentioned lately, but I cant wait for the time when I go in the garden to fill endless buckets with cut flowers, grown organically and with love, for you!

01/28/2022

Wish me luck you guys! I have started seeds of one of the most difficult (so I've heard) and expensive plants out there - eucalyptus. And I was lucky to grab a 100 seeds pack with all the shortage of eucalyptus seeds. The pack says 93% germination rate. I don't have a heat mat, so I don't know how much that influences the germination, but the room they are in is quite warm.
The second picture is of my ergyngium seedlings and they were started 13 days ago, and have a good germination rate.

Next batch of seed staring will be at the end of February... unless I get itchy and I start things earlier.

01/21/2022

I'm going down the memory lane this week, it looks like.... My grandmother from my mother side had a small flower garden with a few bushes of peonies, white daffodils, red tulips and lilac. I loved that garden! Every time I would visit her, we would spend time in garden and she would let me pick flowers to bring home with me. She always had a jar of flowers on her dining table too.
The peonies were her favorite flower. Lilac was mine.
In her memory, I just placed an order of about 100 bare root peonies.

01/19/2022

This is an un-known (to me) dahlia variety.
I've been going back and forth in my mind if I should buy some dahlia tubers or I should only grow them from seeds this year, as a first year flower farmer.

And I have not yet come to a decision.

Can you help?

After doing a lot of research online, there are pros and cons on both options.

If I buy tubers, I'll know exactly what type of flower I will be growing. But, they tend to be expensive, and since I would be growing them for the first time at this location there is a high risk of all kinds of bug damage.

If I grow them from seeds, it will be a total surprise on what flowers I will get, and there are high chances that I will only get single flowers. However, if there are varieties that I like, I can save the tubers for next season.

So, see, this is my dilemma mid January 2022.... should I stick with what I already have in terms of seeds and learn how to grow these well in my new environment, or, everything that was already mentioned above + get some tubers too?

Please, share your thoughts and advices below.. it might help with the "creator's block" LOL

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