Here is the list of plants we are growing this year. Anything not labelled specifically is generally being grown as an annual. There is more to come with this list as we are currently planning what permanent items are going onto the land. For fruit trees and such, we hope to purchase 2-3 year old [...]
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The storm that spawned this red rainbow also spawned grape-sized hail near Busby Alberta. Watching the clouds roll over our house was fascinating yet somewhat alarming since they were some pretty nasty clouds! It’s tornado season here, so whenever the storm warnings pop onto my cell phone, I have a look at the radar if [...]
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Wow, has May been busy. Running 2 gardens both an hour away from my home (plus training for a marathon in august) makes for one incredibly busy schedule on top of the usual working and family life. We’ll start with experiments for the front yard this year: Mini-Greenhouses: I bought 2 of these from Home [...]
It’s been really cold this month so far with only 1 decent week to be had over 20C. There are tons and tons of green tomatoes maturing in all 3 gardens, and only a few starting to change to their mature colours. I’d’ve expected by now that I’d be swimming in ripe tomatoes but that [...]
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We went to both gardens this weekend and did some work, discovering that there’s been explosive growth in the Camrose plot! First a report on the Millwoods plot. We were getting it ready for the Community Garden Competition judging which occurred on monday. We put down landscaping fabric (herein referred to as mulch) to control [...]
There are green tomatoes growing now in both the Camrose and Millwoods plots! First green tomatoes at the Camrose Garden! In the Millwoods plot the Early Time plant is certainly ahead of the other ones with 2 little tomatoes on the way. Almost all the plants have flowers now, so I’ve been making sure to [...]
So the weeds came with a vengeance this week. This will not be fun to pick since while on vacation I nearly had to go into Emergency with some really bad intestinal pain. It’s taken days for it to go away and is only a bit sore now unless I move the wrong way. I [...]
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I’m on vacation all this week and have left Darren in charge of weeding and watering! It’ll be nice to have a brief time off before everything starts producing. This last week I planted out in a pot in the front yard, another gourd seedling since Not as many germinated that I had hoped. It’ll [...]
First off, I have got the front yard pictures. Our place faces north so the only sun the yard gets is on the north edge. Here’s a pic of everything arranged: In the Camrose plot today I put up 3 more short fences with chicken wire to ‘remind’ the dogs to stay out of the [...]
I planted 2 more containers in my front yard today: The round pot has a Christmas Grape Tomato plant, and a Yellow Pear-shaped tomato plant. Both give small cherries so should be great for the container…assuming they survive our daily thunderstorms. The other long, short, rectangular container is half planted with sage and the other [...]
