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Vegetable Garden Plans for 2012
Here we go again; it’s time to make our vegetable garden plans for 2012. Here’s hoping for a fantastic growing season that begins early and stretches far into the autumn. Something along the lines of 2009, now that was a … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Plan, Spring
Tagged BC garden blog, Bean, Carrot, Garden, garden plan, Growing season, Pea, Vancouver Island garden blog, vegetable garden, vegetable patch
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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
Update on Tomatoes and Red Plastic Mulch
Earlier this year I launched a highly unscientific experiment to assess whether red plastic mulch would be beneficial to my tomato plants. You can read about it in my post about tomatoes and red plastic mulch. The claim (by purveyors … 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
Peas in September
Sure, it’s nothing special to be picking sugar snap peas in September, but still picking from my spring planted crop? It continues to be a bizarre year in my new garden! In fact, we are now experiencing a heat wave … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, New Garden, Summer
Tagged BC garden blog, new garden, Pea, Raspberry, Snap pea, sugar snap pea, Vancouver Island garden blog, vegetable garden, vegetable patch, Weather
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Growing Carrots – Variety Comparison
I’m harvesting some pretty nice carrots now – and this year I can tell which variety is which, for a change! In previous years I have sown different varieties all mixed up together, but deciphering which varieties I like best, … 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
Kohlrabi is Delicious!
My Kohlrabi is finally growing well, so I decided to harvest the big one that germinated in the first sowing. The globular part (modified stem?) was about 5″ across – larger than the recommended 2-3″ but the variety that I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Summer, Vegetables
Tagged BC garden blog, Kohlrabi, Vancouver Island garden blog, vegetable garden, vegetable patch
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Growing Carrots – Thinning Carrots
Earlier this spring my post about growing carrots described my technique of sowing lots of carrot seed in a big block to achieve the highest yields from a small space. This year’s crop is growing well, the tops are pillowing … Continue reading
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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Hortophile - My New Garden 