There are Tomatoes sprouting under lights- took 9 days to sprout. Litchi not sprouted yet. Also under lights: White sage, Ipomea, Sweet...

By March 7 I noticed the Hellebores are budding through the snow. All 5 plants are starting to flower. Several Crocus, Winter Aconites,...

August was a time of garden work, of course, but this year was complicated by my new bee venom allergy. Not a problem if I am inspecting...

Strange and spooky warble to make one think of banshees in the night.

I started to plant dyers' plants to reinvigorate my fabric/ fibre dyeing interest . Last year I planted Woad and tried to start Indigo,...

Updates on what's going on in the indoors. Geraniums were not removed from their pots, but were placed on the 2nd shelf of the grow light...

We were approved for a Neighbourhood Decision Making Grant to remove invasive plants from Grand View Park and to replace them with...

Visited Anne and she gave me some plants: New Geranium- Pelargonium 'Vancouver Centennial' Fancy Leaf Geranium. Hit a yard sale in Union:...

I have been negligent about writing lately. It's too hot. I am enjoying my garden in a very different way his year. I wander around tying...

Yesterday and today are catch up days- because it's rainy outside and because I still don't feel all that craptastic. So: finished new...

Flowering: Sweetie Drop plant from 2020, White Yarrow, Flower Pods on Eggplant White Cosmos,Runner Beans, Dill (?), Butterfly Weed Need...

Mike helped me take the younger Norway back to give my front yard garden more sun. Now we chop the remains: big ones for trellis and...

And it's 9:00 and already humid and getting hot. Blooming: Phacelia, Oxeye Daisies,Pink Hollyhock Summbitch rabbit chopped down my...

Gardens refreshed with rain, heat and sun. All in the right proportions. Shoots on the new fig. Grape shoots also doing well. Garlic...

Lots of Golden currants nearly ready to pick. Red Currants- not as many but still a good quantity. Blacks nearly none. Blooming:...

I am vitalized! Planted ornamental Corn (red strawberry), squashes- Kabocha , Butternut, and Canteloupes on s. side of trellis archway....

Now this is more like it. Back feels better, migraines are giving me a rest, and the weather is superb. We laid the drip irrigation for...

Back in the saddle today. Been a while. Harvesting lettuce, radicchio, snap peas, radishes. Need to start to trellis grapes, tomatoes,...

That plus migraine induced inertia means I wasn't updating this blog as I should. Saw one of our resident skunks today. They are still...