Usually about this time of the summer marks the point at which the quantity of vegetables in the garden is more than we as a family can eat. This has been the case for the last 4-5 years at least since the garden has been large enough. What this means is that each [...]
I’m feeling very swamped right now. After taking 4 days off to visit southern Ontario and attend a family wedding I’m behind. The camera is also still with my family who won’t be back until Sunday.
The garden is growing like crazy, especially the weeds. I’m trying to get the last of my broccoli and cauliflower [...]
Last night a hive of honey bees came for an extended visit to the farm. At the market I’m attending I met a beekeeper and mentioned that I would love to have bees around to help pollinate. Well, two weeks later, here they are. I’m pretty excited about it as I [...]
Above is a picture of what I grabbed from the garden for dinner tonight. Some exciting firsts for this season with the “Sun gold” cherry tomatoes, “Nyagous” tomatoes, new potatoes and Lebanese cucumbers. The potatoes were amazing! They are soft and buttery this early on. The sun gold cherry [...]
Somehow I missed #3, but it looked a lot like #2. This is the share for this week. It’s exciting because there are a few new additions and several more things that just missed getting added and should be there for next week. This week we have a large bunch of beets (chiogga beets which [...]
First off, sorry to my faithful readers for missing one of my twice-weekly posts this week. It was a busy week, not totally due to gardening though. Being Canada’s birthday we put on an obligatory party on the weekend and attended Canada Day festivities in Ottawa on Tuesday.
The not so great picture above [...]
