Cauliflower plant with emerging florets
Closer view of the cauliflower plant
Planted this last year and finally a cauliflower is growing! Brassicas are so weird. Also, human rights are rights for all humans. #gardeningincanada
Tierella cordifila coming up in the woods
I'm ditching google-
I want a browser that doesn't support evil. I don't want their product or their ai.
Using Ecosia now:
www.ecosia.org
I just added it as my default browser It is a "greener" alt browser and also the AI is regulated.
#ecosia #nature #gardeningincanada #bloomscrolling
A freshly washed group of a small clump of broccoli sprouts and two chubby overwintering carrots shining on a white citting board
Look what I got out of my #garden today! #CowichanValley #GardeninginCanada
From June 2021 Flax I grew from seed
#bloomscrolling #coloraday #bluetues #fkower #gardeningincanada
Moving away from the phone still, but this caught my attention. Both are Brandywines. The left tomato was grown behind the shed in the ground (without care, basically) and the other was in the buckets... That I thought I was caring for really well.
#gardeningincanada
Planting the new bed, I dug out a rock the size of my head!
Also harvested two Warba and one Yukon bag. It's not much... But it's more and bigger than previous years.
#gardeningincanada
#potatoes
Third picking of peas. The shell/bush peas are sucking and what I really wanted, but they're still doing better than previous years.
#gardeningincanada
#peas
Carrot, turnip, & pea update. The carrots actually look good! That's amazing!
The peas haven't blossomed, which worries me but last year's were eaten by birds. The year before squirrels & chipmunks. Before that they just didn't thrive.
It feels good to make progress in a skill.
#gardeningincanada
The first bean is Grammie's, second is tender green. Tomatoes are over their shock, and an update on the new bed.
#gardeningincanada
#blooms
Grammie's beans are healthier than the new ones. Hers were from last year, a backyard harvest. So hers are doing better over all because they're the children of the beans our backyard couldn't kill.
No joke, that's how evolution works. If a plant does well #seedsave that sucker.
#gardeninginCanada
Show me your garden!
Here's my shade garden at the moment. 🥰
#garden #gardening #gardeningincanada #shadegarden #plantslover
The one nasturtium that germinated outside.
Good luck, buddy.
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#flowers
#seedlings
Planted 2 roses & a rhodendentron. 20 annuals. Tied up the peas for extra support. Thinned carrots & turnip.
Moved 3 buckets of black earth from my recovery plot, where I've added biomass/browns w/out creating an actual compost.
I was supposed to play a game this morning.
#gardeningincanada
Devastation.
Cat watched it happen. She sleeps there all night.
One yellow Canary is missing. It appears to have eaten the root of the smaller cabbage but left the other intact.
Why?
#gardeningincanada
#pests
The story of grow lights. Noma from CT. A light inherited from ex (R/B "special" light) and then jiffy hydro. The jiffy is shorter but dark green. I'm thinking it's time to lift the light from the plants.
The R/B is taller but not as robust as jiffy. We won't talk about Noma.
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My day about summed up. Also planted four dahlias, munstead lavender, and did a bunch of shopping.
We now have seven dahlias. This morning we had zero. But one pot came with four, so...
#flowerplanting
#beefriendly
#gardeningincanada
This is kind of odd... Grammie's bush beans and russets are coming up before the new seeds.
The garden whimsy could very well be one of her squash from last year, coming up a month before it's supposed to.
Proof grandmothers are made of magic? Are they all secretly witches?
#gardeningincanada
Today's my phone started to die camera first. Also time to plant #bushbeans and #polebeans
Named after the originator of the seed save and what I think Grammie's was to start. Both have the same number of beans... But Grammie's are big. Selected for straight and surviving.
#gardeningincanada
Anyone out there familiar with growing #dalias in colder climates? Zone 5 I think I am, not cold as hell's bowels but pretty close.
Grammie and I both love them. A spot on the island grows them great but PEI is a different climate. She's never had any luck.
#gardeningincanada
#flowers
Cauliflower plant in the garden
Ok so it's not a big cauliflower, but I grew it and it was DELICIOUS! Planted the seed last summer, overwintered on the mild west coast and then suddenly decided to grow a (cauli) flower! #gardening #Canada #yvr #wetcoast #gardeninginCanada
I'm just scrolling through the #GardeningInCanada Feed, feeling nostalgic. Pictures of The Public Gardens, Butchart Gardens, and the Tulip Festival remind me of my own experiences in those places. The apple blossoms and trout lilies and wild strawberries are part of me.
#Canada
#Spring
Found this ghostly hosta. It should get a bit of green as it gets bigger. I love how it will contrasts with the purple plants in my shade garden.
(White feather hosta)
#gardeningincanada #gardening #zone5 #hostas
Bagging my potatoes instead of putting some in ground like I originally planned ate up my soil supply. All told thirty potatoes planted, two types of peas and spinach.
Black birds are going to eat well tonight!
Hopefully not.
#gardeningincanada
Someone said if you want your #garden to tell you when it's ready for planting, plant peas in the fall.
I learned this at the beginning of April, so naturally I dropped some in the ground
Guess this works. My #planting calendar has them marked as May 6
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I should have uploaded pics the day of transplant because I'm pretty sure two Choc cherries have tripled in size in just a couple days.
Here's hoping.
#seedlings
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Getting a quote on rebuilding the porch next week. The new one will be half the size. Can't put potatoes in the ground until after we hear back.
I'd rather replace the patio and use pots this year, digging fresh beds for next year.
Now I'm thinking: potatoes in 5gal buckets.
#gardeningincanada
Rhubarb survived the winter. Grammie's squash has to move.
Anyone know how squash would do beside/on the corners of a carrot bed with the ability to sprawl across grass outward?
Google's AI says yes, but there's no supporting evidence. Not risking grammie's squash.
#gardeningincanada
#gardening
Who can stay in bed when watching seedlings grow is an option? Two pepper plants!
#seedling
#gardeningincanada
We've practiced seed saving since 2020 but none of those seeds are still in use. While the beans are labelled 2021 that's their original plant date for my info. So we bought those from a store in 2021 and have been seed saving year after year.
Almost time...
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