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Growing Onions
Growing onions must be easy, they’re certainly cheap enough at the supermarket, but I’m not very good at it! My onions are usually small and often too watery to keep well, but not this year. I’m not sure exactly … Continue reading
Winter Vegetables…a Dog’s Breakfast (Lunch and Dinner)
This year I vowed to grow a nice crop of winter veg, something to supplement the peaked (and expensive) produce that I find at my local supermarkets during the cold months. So around the third week of August I sowed … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetables, Winter
Tagged BC garden blog, Radish, Salad, Vancouver Island garden blog, Vegetable, vegetable garden
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Oven Roasted Potatoes
I made these delicious roasted potatoes for supper tonight, the family loves them. They’re certainly a favourite recipe of my kids and husband, and I like them too! I used my homegrown Satina potatoes, peeled and chopped into 2-3” chunks. … Continue reading
Pepper Production Particularly Poor in 2011
Well, I guess I shouldn’t complain, I’ve harvested tons of tomatoes, a plethora of peas and countless carrots, but my pepper production was particularly poor in 2011. I don’t really need a lot of peppers because I’m pretty much the … Continue reading
My Three Sisters Garden
Due to an excess of almost finished compost, and the need to empty my compost box to make room for more material, I ended up with a new garden tucked into the space behind my little greenhouse. It didn’t take … Continue reading
Tomatoes and Red Plastic Mulch
A while back I received a gift of red plastic mulch. It’s supposed to increase yields by helping plants develop and ripen their fruit faster – something to do with reflecting a certain spectrum of light, which in turn triggers … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouse, New Garden, Summer
Tagged BC garden blog, greenhouse, Lee Valley Tools, Mulch, Tomato, Vancouver Island garden blog, Vegetable, vegetable garden
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Kohlrabi Update
Well, I thought I had a bad batch of seeds from West Coast Seeds, but no! The second sowing has come up gangbusters! Oh well, succession sowings are recommended for a long harvest, right? There’s still something weird going on … Continue reading
Posted in New Garden, Vegetables
Tagged BC garden blog, Kohlrabi, Seed, Sowing, Vancouver Island garden blog, Vegetable, vegetable garden, vegetable patch
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Tomatoes in my Living Room
Just a few weeks ago when the first tomato plants began arriving at the garden centre I brought some home, potted them up into larger pots and settled them onto the windowsill in my living room. The east-facing windows in … Continue reading
Posted in Fruit, Greenhouse, Vegetables
Tagged BC garden blog, Garden centre, greenhouse, Tomato, Tomatoes, Vancouver Island garden blog, Vegetable
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Hortophile - My New Garden 