I was so pleased with my garlic this year that I’ve decided to plant more than twice the amount for next year. In fact, by next spring, I may regret how little space I have left in my garden for anything else! As the years go by and I gain more experience growing veggies, I’ve…
Category: In the Garden
Cured garlic
My garlic harvest is now cured and stored away safely hanging in my basement. I had it on a drying rack in the garage with a fan on it for about 2 weeks or so, and then I trimmed off the dead leaves and the roots, and then brought them inside. I tried my hand…
I had it backwards
Now that it’s out of the ground, I’m pretty sure I had the variety of my garlics mixed up. I think the smaller one is Purple Glazer (above), and the larger one is Music. The larger variety doesn’t seem to have a hint of purple skin. I have half a mind to call Richter’s Herbs,…
Garlic Scape Pesto
I’m just about finished up the last wee cloves of garlic from last year’s harvest. It’s been hanging in my basement since last summer, where it kept very well. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have two varieties planted this year, Music and Purple Glazer. Usually the scapes, the little flower heads that…
Desire…
We saw a large bed of these gorgeous tulips along the walkway in Berczy Park behind the flatiron building downtown Toronto a couple weeks ago. Tulips have to be one of the most diverse and beautiful flowers on the planet. They are also one that has shaped the history of our culture. If you have never…
Power gardening
My spring continues to be a hectic one, which makes meeting essential gardening milestones a bit of a squeeze. But this week I managed to hit some targets by cramming in a few intensive sessions between other commitments. We’ve been very lucky to have a week of lovely weather, bookended by weekends of the same….
Garden Freckles
Freckles lettuce My garden, or what’s been planted in it so far, is chugging right along. I’ve got lettuces, spinach, radishes, carrots, beets and some chard and kale in the ground in the backyard beds, but these are mixed in terms of success. The backyard beds get less sun than the front yard, so this…
A costly error in judgement
I knew that this could happen, but I just couldn’t pass up the pretty when I saw them… hydrangeas for my porch planters! I put these out on the weekend of March 17-18, and the week that followed was insanely warm. I wasn’t terribly surprised that it got quite cold again for a couple days,…
This is going to be a very short Spring
Last Sunday was unbelievably warm. I was finally on the other end of a nasty stomach bug, and I had hoped to plant my onions, although as of Sunday the ground still had a wee bit of ice under the surface, so they had to wait. Instead I cleaned and reorganized the garage. To be…
Welcome NOW readers!
How flattered I am to be ‘consulted’ by my pal Adria Vasil over at Ecoholic about getting your seedlings started for the upcoming season! There are certainly many more experts out there with greater knowledge than I, but to build on the story in this week’s NOW magazine, here are some additional tips and tricks….