The Scented Garden
With summer in full swing most of my garden work these days is about maintaining: watering, weeding and reseeding the odd head of lettuce. For the past week or so these chores have been particularly lovely as a few of 
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With summer in full swing most of my garden work these days is about maintaining: watering, weeding and reseeding the odd head of lettuce. For the past week or so these chores have been particularly lovely as a few of Gardening for Climate Change
"As weird weather and record-high temperatures continue to afflict much of the northern hemisphere, the natural flora around us — and what we can grow in our gardens — is slowly changing."
Read the rest here, at the Toronto Star.
Deconstructing the Shed
Several years ago, London's Victoria and Albert Museum hosted The Other Flower Show. Ten renowned artists were invited to transform a museum-provided garden shed into a work of art. The result was an exhibit conceptually based around the method of gardening rather than the garden itself. The
Square Foot Gardening Update: Box #2
Agh. A week went by and I ran out of time to do a review of what’s going on with my second square foot gardening box (a 4’x 4’ square), and now that I look back at this photo that was taken only a week ago, I realize
Square foot Gardening Update: Box #1
The heat, mixed with a few days of rain this week, sent the various plants in my two square foot garden boxes (to avoid confusion that's two 4'x4' squares) to growin' up a storm. This weekend I spent a whole lot of time staking, harvesting and replanting and
Easy Peasy Birdbath
Now that the veggies are producing quite happily, I have a few weeks of down time before I start the cooler weather veggies. So my attention has turned to the birds. Birds are great to have around, they eat some grubby little insects I A Bag Made of Bags
This crocheted bag looks like a great project to make for toting your garden harvest or trips to the Farmer's Market. It's made using plastic grocery bags cut into workable "yarn" strips. I like that the Community Garden Plant Sale (Vancouver)
Hey there Vancouverites! One of the year's best plant sales is coming up this weekend at the Cottonwood and Strathcona Community Gardens. I'll include details below, but first some thoughts and photos from my recent visits to the Cottonwood side of the gardens.
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Never one to adhere to tradition, I have started swallowing my grassy yard up with perennials and edibles. Several factors have prevented total success with the work so far, though, and a major one has been communication between my spouse and myself. This was especially apparent one evening
Gross
I've been waiting anxiously for my ladden blackcurrant bush to get enough heat for the currants to ripen for picking, and with the recent heat blast I was in luck. So this weekend I set out to pick pounds and pounds of the suckers to start various jelly,
