While it was a warm day today, it wasn't quite warm enough to work on garden beds, so once the outhouse floor was done, I focused on doing a number of small jobs around the yard. One of them was to replace the grass mulch on the garlic beds with a thick layer of straw. … Continue reading More fall clean up, prowlers, and there’s a stranger in town!
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On growing garlic
This year, I joined a number of gardening groups on social media. Either local groups or cold climate/zone 3 gardening groups. It's pretty cool to see how many first time gardeners have been joining the groups and asking all sorts of questions. This is the time of year for planting hard neck garlic, as we … Continue reading On growing garlic
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Our 2021-22 garden: garlic is in!
When it became clear we would be using our low raised beds to plant the garlic when it came in, I thought about how much space the garlic we planted last fall had taken, and thought we might be able to plant all three varieties in one bed. Maybe one and a half. Boy, was … Continue reading Our 2021-22 garden: garlic is in!
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Guess what I’ll be doing today!
I made a trip to the post office today and had a lovely surprise. Our garlic is in! According to the Canada Post tracker, it wasn't supposed to arrive for another four days. We have our garlic, but we still don't have a straw bale to mulch the bed, so I messaged our renter about … Continue reading Guess what I’ll be doing today!
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Our 2021 garden: garlic is harvested!
Things have been a bit odd with our garlic this year. I am sure part of it is because of the drought, but others, I'm not so sure! We did a partial harvest and curing of our Purple Stripe garlic a while ago. The remaining garlic looked like it was ready to harvest for the … Continue reading Our 2021 garden: garlic is harvested!
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Our 2021 garden: first garlic done
Yesterday evening was so lovely out, I spent as much time outside as I could! I took advantage of this to finished up the garlic we harvested some time ago. They have been hanging from the rafters under our gazebo tent to cure. It was not ideal conditions. They should be somewhere cool and dry. … Continue reading Our 2021 garden: first garlic done
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Little friends, and garlic mystery solved?
Well, we've passed our forecasted high of the day and have reached 30C/86F, with the humidex putting us at 35C/95F, this afternoon. We did, however, get RAIN this morning! I was awakened by the sound of thunder, so I quickly went outside to make sure the cats and birds had food before the rain hit. … Continue reading Little friends, and garlic mystery solved?
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Our 2021 garden: first garlic
I've been eying one of our garlic beds closely for some time now. This bed has the Purple Stripe garlic. Most of them started dying back a while ago, which was very strange. It seemed very early for them to be doing that. Especially since some of them were still growing scapes. I've been reading … Continue reading Our 2021 garden: first garlic
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Our 2021 garden: three firsts, this morning!
You just have to love how quickly things change, day by day! The first ornamental poppies started blooming this morning. They have had bulbs for a while now, and then this morning, two of them exploded into full bloom. 🙂 I was looking at the garlic yesterday evening, and seeing what might, possibly, could be, … Continue reading Our 2021 garden: three firsts, this morning!
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This, that and the other thing
Today was one of those days that went all over the place! So this is probably going to be a very disjointed post! 😀 One of the first things I wanted to get done this morning was to call the RCMP, as advised by my lawyer, about the gunshots from our vandal's property. For non-emergency … Continue reading This, that and the other thing
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