Time to plant potatoes
This year’s seed potatoes arrived in the mail this morning! I have to pick up some bales of straw and then planting can…
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Last year’s herb and vegetable seeds
I have started itching to get my hands in the soil. It starts this way every year about the same time, just as…
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Harvest time!
I have been holding off on harvest, hoping against hope that some Black Prince and Bonnie Best tomatoes would ripen on the vine….
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Standing in the rain
Thursday was a special day. When I stepped outside for my habitual morning tour of the garden, a fine rain had begun to…
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Coping with drought, wishing for spring water
Ontario is experiencing its worst drought since 1965. We are not alone. The North American Drought Monitor map currently shows extreme drought throughout…
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Midsummer soups: gluten-free New England clam chowder
A few weeks into summer, all the work we put into our vegetable gardens begins to pay off. Now that I have found…
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Slow Gardening
The Slow Food movement is changing the way people eat. We have heard of related concepts like slow blogging and slow living….
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Vegetable Gardening Despite Groundhogs
Today’s post was pre-written. I am on a short internet-free weekend retreat but will be available June 25. So far our resident…
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