In the bee garden…
Category: gardening
These snapdragon were rather desperate to grow in the rose garden, even though I planted them on the other side of the back yard (where they declined to grow). I didn’t have the heart to rip them out and now they look like velvet – what a colour!!
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In the garden: green beans
Last week I found this monster zucchini hiding behind a garbage can full of crazy potato plants (more on those later). Under this stealthy cover the zucchini was able to grow beyond tasty eating size and into what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-this proportions. So this: Monster “Ambassador” Zucchini Became this: Monster Zucchini = 8+ cups when grated!! Became these: […]
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In the garden: pepper
This is the largest pepper I have ever grown (in the 3 whole years I have been gardening – ha!). I attempted to grow peppers for my first 2 years by seed and was never successful, so this year I purchased 2 plants (a chocolate and an orange pepper), planted the seedlings in containers by […]
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In the garden: Sweet peas…
These sweet peas just came into bloom (that is how awful our weather has been in Vancouver this spring/summer). They are in the window box on the kitchen window so I can see them from inside while prepping dinner or baking – so pretty and sweet (they are obviously aptly named). The pinks really stand […]
Not sure this could even be considered a small batch harvest… maybe a teeny, tiny harvest? However tiny, this luscious handful of berries rocked last night’s ice cream dessert, so there are certainly no complains in the (big!!) taste department.
It is pissing rain Vancouver. PISSING. I can feel my autumn instincts trying to kick in. Suddenly, I crave hot chocolate paired with a good book, or to bake dinner rolls or corn bread or at least a bunch of cookies, with spaghetti or maybe chili for dinner… then knitting a blanket or sweater in […]
…I’ve just had buds forming for a long, long while now. [Oh! You thought I was being deeply and unusually personal for a moment. No, no. I was personifying the baby apple tree:] [Or Not]. On a gardening note, I was really hoping that those ants were eating those aphids, but alas it seems (according […]