Every spring for 4 years now, I’ve been starting a couple hundred Tumbler tomato plants from seed. I sell most of them at the first Farmer’s Market of the season on the May long weekend and some of them stay in my garden to grow on.I grow them in hanging baskets in my glass greenhouse [. . .]
fava beans
I can’t seem to get enough of fava beans this year. I grew a little bed of them just for us, thinking it would be enough but it wasn’t and this morning I took off running to the Farmer’s Market to get some more…..yet another delicious and nutritious seasonal garden treat. One of my favourite [. . .]
crocosmia and parsley
Every summer, I can’t wait for the crocosmia to bloom. It must be one of my favourite perennial flowers in the garden. The hummingbirds love it and so do the bees. The bees and other beneficial bugs also love the Italian broad-leaf parsley that I try to let go to flower at the same time [. . .]
lovely legumes
We’re harvesting sugar snap peas from the garden these days. I plant my sugar snap peas sometime between February and March. I soak the seeds overnight to encourage them to germinate faster because the longer they sit in the soil, the more chance of mouse attack. Mice love peas and they seem to come out [. . .]
nasturtiums
fruits of my labour
Waiting for strawberries to ripen…. waiting, waiting…..hurrrrrry up…. almost….. YaaaaHOOOOO! Red strawberries at Summer Solstice. This is my strawberry patch. Two boxes are June bearing varieties and the other two are Everbearing. When I first planted the strawberries, this spot was outside the garden fence where the deer roam. I didn’t want to take up [. . .]