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Out of My Element

Frozen RoseAs I mentioned in an earlier post about turbid water, Vancouver BC (and environs) has been subject to some serious weather lately. November brought us floods, then plenty o'snow, followed by a serious drop in temperature, more snow and now a

Reflections on Where I Am

Since moving to Nelson I've discovered many things, not only about small towns, but also just about living in a climate that is pretty much smack dab in the middle of where I grew up, and where I've been living the past five years. I also have no land.

Showering Them with… Water

I closed up shop on my rooftop garden this weekend. The terra cotta containers are all brought indoors and stored away for the winter. I'll admit that while I'm sad to see it end for another season, I have begun to realize that I really need

The Future of Food

I recently sat down and watched, The Future of Food, a documentary that investigates the problems we face in the industrialization and corporatization of food production. Wow, I can't say enough about this film and am sorry it took me this long to make a point to

The Eggling Experience: Update 1

Germination has taken place in both the Eggling and the Real Egg. The Real Egg showed a few sprouts about 6 hours before the Eggling. Sorry about the lack of photo to accompany this update however both seedlings are microscopic in size and I don't have a

Eggling versus Real Egg: Fight

eggling1.jpg While setting up my "Eggling Experience" I thought it would fall more into the spirit of the much loved but long forgotten "The Lab" section of this site if I were to make this into an Eggling versus Real Egg experiment.

Mutant Veggies at the Fall Fair

A friend and I attended The Royal, Toronto's big city attempt at a country fall fair. I was unable to make it over the last few years and forgot how good it is. Fall fairs are like cultural anthropology that happens close to home. There's

Container Garden Clean-up

Today was a dry and mild reprieve from the awful cold, wet and sometimes windy late fall weather we've been enduring here in Southern Ontario -- a good day to do some garden work. I have found frozen water in the trays underneath the containers on the

Late Season Gardening — Party Time, Excellent.

Despite the cold -- and the fact that we experienced a brief and light snowfall this afternoon -- outdoor gardening is still happening here in Toronto. I am yet to put any of my gardens to bed. The side garden is fine really. Doing a

The Eggling Experiment

Eggling I know that this cute little product has made the rounds in the design and gardening world so I know I'm probably not showing you anything new. I have been resisting the charm of the Eggling since I first heard of them

Fall garden update

Sorry for being MIA the last little while! I got caught up with finishing my Masters over the summer months (what a way to spend the summer!), and am finally kind of getting things back in order now that it's finished... One of the things on

Falling in Love with Grassland

I am finally accepting the fact that winter is coming and I had better enjoy fall (despite all of this horrible rain) while it lasts. One of the gifts gardening has given me is the ability to look at the landscape and plantlife around me with new

Garlic Lessons Learned

The only remaining bulbs I had on my list to plant for the Fall was my garlic. Planting out the garlic required a bit more preparation as I had to clean up some space in my veggie beds getting rid of finished beans, cukes and some arugula that

Packing up for the winter.

It's definitely getting colder here in Nelson. You can't walk outdoors without a jacket (it feels like a distant dream when it was 40 degrees straight that week), the clouds are so low you can almost touch them, and it's getting dark at 6pm. Everybody's packing in their

Grow This - Grape Hyacinth (Muscari)

Muscari - Grape Hyacinth Famous for candy-sweet cobalt blue blooms that resemble tidy clusters of pint-sized grapes, muscari is a versatile, carefree spring bloom. Pack a punch and plant bulbs in eye-catching “rivers” or clustered together in problem areas under trees and in rock

Bulbs: That Time of Year

I've yet to get to building my cold frame, and fear it might be a bit late though I'll probably still give it a whirl. Our temperatures here have been shockingly warm so far so if I hurry I may just be able to cash in with a

Grinding Herbs

Today I got around to grinding up my dried herbs. Why? Because I found a great deal on a coffee bean grinder at Loblaws...$9.99! It worked really well. Each weekend lately I've been harvesting from the garden whatever edibles I can. I managed to bring

Flowering Stevia

Stevia rebaudiana Unbelievable! My stevia plant is flowering! I brought my large stevia plant indoors about a month ago. We have had a very cold, wet Fall in Toronto which does not bode well with the delicate nature of stevia. I have learned

The Fantastic Craptastic Compost Bin

Compost Bin I made a discovery while turning the compost heap at my community garden last week. It turns out that someone had stashed away all the ingredients needed to turn our pathetic pile into a reasonable bin -- someone just had to make

Pinto Success!

pinto beans I have made much of my project to grow some genuine protein in my garden in the form of some humble pinto beans here at The Dirt and so it is with glowing pride that I come here to share
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