Category Archives: Veggies

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Thanks Bizarro! Love those comics.

 
 

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CSA 2012

Here’s how our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program works:

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Buy a $300 season credit*. Each Tuesday from early July to Thanksgiving (15 weeks) a box of fresh veggies and herbs worth $20 (on average) will be harvested that morning … Continue reading

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it’s raining – yay!!

Finally, after 2 weeks of no rain, there’s a nice gentle, steady rain falling, and I’m praying that it will be falling all day…
Before it started, I was weeding and mulching in the Pine garden. When I left city life … Continue reading

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mulching on a fruit day

Most of the bulk transplanting is done, just one row of tomatoes left, then succession planting of greens. Today Christina & Kristine spent the morning weeding the beds at the neighbour’s. The squash, tomatoes and onions are doing well … Continue reading

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More tomatoes

The one consolation about all the weeding in the trellis area is that the grass and weeds are way healthier than they were 3 summers ago when we started – so our soil is getting better!
Got 24 Amish Paste tomatoes … Continue reading

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Garlic-Leek Moth Larvae

These little guys are hard to get at. They eat their way down the tender centre leaves of leeks, garlic, onions, chives – anything in the allium family. Their mama is a 1/2″ brown-grey moth who lays single eggs by … Continue reading

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Pole Beans and tomatoes

Major lesson – clean up garden beds in the fall. The trellis area is just about impossible this spring because the grass, evening primrose, yellow dock, lambs quarters, etc… are so well established. My only excuse is that last fall … Continue reading

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Mulch arrives! and Pine garden is in

Eleven round bales of wheat straw arrived today – to be rolled out as mulch. That’s rhubarb (going to flower) and garlic in the foreground.
The small area that we call the Pine Garden has 6 beds, each about 30 feet … Continue reading

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