Canada is vast. Actually Canada is really, really, really, vast. If you take one really small car, one really huge country, one very amenable cat, and one somewhat crazy girl and drive them all from sea to sea all the … Continued
Sticks. Sticks and branches are all natural, fairly easy to come by (often for free!) and also pretty flexible. This makes them perfect for crafting handwoven garden fences, trellises, wattles and hurdles. Big fun! (really, this is actually super fun … Continued
Soft shoe, Edie!… How can you resist? – Big Edie Did you ever see the movie Grey Gardens? It is the rather unusual story of two former socialites that withdrew from the world to secret themselves in a condemned mansion with … Continued
Nuts! This is not the Spring that I ordered. Thank goodness baby onions are pretty cold hardy ’cause they have to go out. It is time and there is no more room for them in here. Seems more than a little bit … Continued
So very “froggy” outside and pretty darn cold too! It always comes as an unwelcome surprise just how bitter the sodden wetness of early Spring wind can be. It just cuts right through anything that you try to wear as … Continued
Hardening off. The growing season at our Pebble and Fern gardens is quite short. This is a fairly cold-Wintered area (cold-Summered too, sigh). To get a good yield of the vegetables that need more frost-free days than our climate permits … Continued
The Gardens are waking up and the Avalanche of seedlings has begun. Huge relief, as this year Spring was beginning to seem as if it was really and truly not going to arrive. Spring-ter is a most terrible idea. It … Continued
Oh Garden, my love. I hope you had a good sleep. You seem to have pressed the snooze button a few extra times and now we are a little behind in our planting schedule but it sure is nice to … Continued
The weather is being quite uncooperative so we took the unprecedented step of planting some Broad Beans in cell-packs. Eep! We are putting in a pretty large crop of Broad Beans this year. There was a lot of demand for … Continued
When we bought this old house we inherited the Mother of all derelict sheds. It was like that children’s song “The song that would not end” (The Shed that would not end…). Shed after shed after shed all attached to… yet … Continued
