Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
I didn’t really make any New Years resolutions, but I did kinda decide to do a bit more exercise, not push myself so hard to get everything done, and to bake bread! I have made bread before but I have always used the bread machine to at least mix the dough if not do the…
September is normally a month of abundance in the garden – the hard work of tilling, planting, weeding etc begins to tail off, and we can harvest all the bounty. One thing that is noticeable this year is that normally we have been getting a steady supply of all the good stuff since July/August, but this…
So as well as potatoes, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, zucchini, peas, beans, kale, watermelons (optimistic I know) etc here are some other things that we find in the veg patch: On the like list dragonflies (often perched on a garden stake) pacific tree frogs worms ladybugs other interesting and beneficial creatures!…
One question that is raised by growing your own food in a temperate climate is “what do we eat in the winter?” In a reasonable year its possible that you could have salad greens in April and have squash, potatoes etc lasting into October, and a feast of food in the months of July and…
I am sure everyone is as happy as we are to see some real summer weather here at last. The late arrival has meant that a lot of things are much later that we might expect. But the good news is that we are now getting loads and loads of berries ripening. We must have…