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 [...]
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 [...]
On monday evening a big storm went through that spawned funnel clouds to the northwest of town in Wabamun, complete with hail and rain. The camrose plot got 2.5 inches of rain and some hail that wasn’t large enough to damage anything. We’re going down there tonight to check the progress of everything. We went [...]