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 [. . .]
compost + mulch
a mild winter day in the garden
It was ideal winter weather for working outside yesterday. (the sun even came out!) What a beautiful day and it looks like today wants to be sunny too. Lots of weeding to do in my garden right now….west coast gardening involves weeding all year ’round at my place. The weeds that grow in the garden [. . .]
falling leaves
It’s the season to collect fallen leaves and I’ve been raking up a storm.In our neck of the woods, we have a lot of big leaf maple trees.Visions of rich brown crumbly leaf mould for next year’s garden are on my mind these days.Leaf mould is simply composted deciduous tree leaves. In my garden, I [. . .]