Vegetable garden
I had a late start with my vegetable garden this year, with the weather we had in Toronto. Everything seems to be coming in late, but it’s finally starting.
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Carrots, tomatoes and raspberries
I’m now getting a handful of strawberries and snow peas ripening every day, which is wonderful. The carrots are starting to come along too. I’ve never grown carrots before, so I don’t know when I should pull them up. I’m thinking at least another week or two? They look a bit skinny.
Spring 2013 garden prep
It may have snowed two weeks ago, and rained for a week solid, but the sun’s out today, and warm weather has been predicted by the augurs going forward, so I’m doing it. I’m prepping the garden for 2013.
It Grows: Zucchini Edition
The zucchini is starting. This is the only one I can see so far, but there are a ton of flowers, so it should be a good crop. The flowers look like a terrifying-but-also-kind-of-beautiful species from another galaxy, and while I’ve heard they’re edible, they do not taste delicious raw. Nasturtiums, on the other hand, …
Tomatoes, raspberries and more delicious strawberries
Tons of activity in my garden this week. It’s very exciting, though I think I may have over planted again. The zucchini in the bottom left hand corner is getting big. It’s starting to over run my asparagus, and it’s only been a couple of weeks. Not sure how to fix that. I finally got …
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It Grows: Strawberry Edition
This is crazy town. I just planted these, what, two weeks ago? And now I have actual strawberries happening in my garden. Wow.1 The raspberries have just started to come through. There’s going to be a ton of them. Enough to jam for weeks, I’m sure. The bees have been very busy. (No sexual innuendo …