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Category: Seasonal

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.

Fall Clean Up: Perfect Timing

This may not seem as remarkable to those of you currently outside of the South Coast of our Canadian shores, but I managed to get in a good three hours of garden clean up this weekend and not get soaking wet. This my friends, almost defies the laws

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

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

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
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