Nature's Garden Heirlooms

Wasn't that recent warm weather so welcome aft...

2010-03-21T10:56:51.925-04:00

Wasn't that recent warm weather so welcome after what seemed like another too long of a winter? It has gotten cool again though. I guess we'll have to ride out this cold snap for just another day or so. Dreamer.

I'm looking forward to planting the Baby Orchard variety of corn that I just received from Prairie Garden Seeds of Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Too bad I'll have to

2010-02-16T05:58:23.155-05:00

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2010-01-25T01:17:35.836-05:00

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2009-12-31T00:49:36.934-05:00

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Garlic....love it! Yesterday I planted four rows -...

2009-10-11T12:19:53.115-04:00

Garlic....love it! Yesterday I planted four rows - 29 cloves per row. I like to hoe up the rows (which I try to space 16-18 inches apart) and then lay down the cloves about four to five inches deep (counting from the bottom of the clove) and some six inches apart. I'll lay down all the cloves in the rows before covering them up and make some minor adjustments to the spacing in the rows so

Thanks for such a positive story about my garden S...

2009-10-03T16:01:52.781-04:00

Thanks for such a positive story about my garden Susan. It had been a so-so growing season up until a month or so ago when that wonderful weather we enjoyed for a couple of weeks finally got most of my main garden peppers and tomatoes to ripen.

Overall it's been another fun and productive gardening season, albeit too short. I'm already thinking about next year's garden with

That is exactly right Shelley. Let them flower and...

2009-06-27T21:39:06.100-04:00

That is exactly right Shelley. Let them flower and collect the seeds. You are so right about Mother Nature, hard to predict and you can't change her mind! Sometimes we come across a tip or hint that just makes it a little easier though. I know a gardener who had very little space, a maple tree in the backyard, and weather issues, so he built a raised bed under the tree and grew squash and

Being a former resident of Northern Ontario I do s...

2009-06-18T14:25:45.217-04:00

Being a former resident of Northern Ontario I do share with you how quickly our plans get redirected due to factors out of our control. Now, being here in Texas, I find that all I learned about gardening in Ontario doesn't mean much. Weather conditions so predict the outcome of your garden...and sometimes all your efforts are thrown out the window when mother nature chooses to pummel you

Hi Orest, you sound pretty bundled up there. The b...

2009-06-12T12:55:22.287-04:00

Hi Orest, you sound pretty bundled up there. The blueberries are indeed budding and flowering, one of the few reasons the blackflies don't drive me back down south. That and the dragonflies they feed. As far as the moon goes:

Date: 12 June 2009
Root Capricorn
Waning gibbous

Synodic:
Now is a good time to sow root vegetables, berries, bulbs, onions,

Hi Green Sudbury, 80 acres in Wahnapitae, and it i...

2009-06-12T12:35:48.942-04:00

Hi Green Sudbury, 80 acres in Wahnapitae, and it is a zoo, a natural zoo! A Woodcock is indeed a bird as Orest said, it is a shore bird which nests in thickets and is active at night. You might have heard them in the dark with their raspy springtime 'beezp'. At dusk the males fly up high, often 70-100 ft, making a chippering trill with their wings and then they plummet with a bubbling

It's a bird GS, a bird with a beak, a long bea...

2009-06-07T15:45:38.859-04:00

It's a bird GS, a bird with a beak, a long beak, better to pick off and munch on those pesky black flies and mosquitoes that seem to be everywhere here right now.

Hi Susan and best wishes! to you and Nature's Garden Heirlooms from your friend and neighbour Orest. I'm just back from my morning walk with Wendy and in spite of the cold, cloudy and mosquitoey conditions, it was

Where do you live? Sounds like a zoo. Whats a Wood...

2009-04-21T21:40:00.000-04:00

Where do you live? Sounds like a zoo. Whats a Woodcock?