…must be time to plant the spinach and the sugar snap peas outside. Oh my!
signs of spring
The ornamental cherry tree is beginning to bloom. One of my favourite signs of spring. Such a beautiful frilly pink colour! When this tree blooms, I know it’s really time to get busy starting my seeds for the summer garden. So I better go to the greenhouse and get busy……but first, maybe I’ll give the [. . .]
seeds
Today I was busy with planting and harvesting shoots and greens and delivering them to various spots around the island.Then I picked up another load of big heavy bags of seed from the post office. Mostly seeds for pea shoots, sunflower shoots and various microgreens, about 150lbs. of them.I’m glad that I’ve found a supplier [. . .]
sunflower shoots
Altho’ they’re wonderful to have all year ’round, I can’t think of a better time of year than January and February to be growing sunflower shoot greens! And if you grow pea shoots too, a salad of a mix of the two is…..well, I can’t think of a more delicious home-grown fresh winter-time salad. Easily [. . .]
amaryllis
There aren’t many flowers out in the garden these days so it’s nice to have this beautiful white amaryllis blooming indoors now. I potted up quite a few bulbs last fall for pre Christmas sales in reusable and compostable pots. If you got one of these from me before Christmas, here’s some info on the [. . .]
pea shoot season
The last couple weeks have brought us ideally mild winter pea shoot growing conditions in the unheated greenhouse and the greens are doing very well! Creating beautiful green peashooty goodness fills much of my day these days…. Look at these healthy, juicy stems happily standing tall in their grow tray! It seems everyone’s craving some [. . .]