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Member since: Mar 10 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 15 | Organic gardener
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14 Apr 2013
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Pictures from the Boulevard Box
Japanese Sedge (Carex Morrowii 'Aureo-variegata') Moved, Pulmonaria - Pink Dividing, and Front yard gardenPartly Cloudy 10°C / 50°FJust a few early photos of the box on the boulevard. I removed the miscanthus because it was getting too big and over shadowing everything. And also removed an overgrown Japanese sedge. I added some divided daylilies and the splecked plant whose name I never remember-Pulmonaria!
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12 Apr 2013
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What's in the garden from last year
Fruit - Alpine Strawberry Flowering, Fruit - Blackcurrant Flowering, Blueberry - Northland Flowering, Backy...Partly Cloudy 10°C / 50°FJust wanted to record what plants held over the winter. 3 parsley and I think one self-sowed but sprouts are too small to tell. a few shallots are sprouting around the strawberries were I had them last year. I must have missed them when I dug them up! garlic is sprouting—26 in total...
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11 Apr 2013
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Time to plant out some seedlings
Flowers - Marigolds (French Vanilla) Planting Out, Flowers - Marigolds (Romeo) Planting Out, Vegetable - Fa...Partly Cloudy 10°C / 50°FWith some respite from the rain, it was time to plant out some seedlings, and finally get that fava beans sown! 5 fava beans sown against the sturdy sunflower stalks left from last year. 2 new parsley planted out in addition to the 3 remaining from last year. Will still need more. I think it self...
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31 Mar 2013Herbs - Stinging Nettle Growing, Lovage Growing, and Backyard - Back 40 garden
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You’d think I was growing buttercup as a crop the way it has taken over in some areas of my garden. This year I am determined to wrestle back some control in some areas. I cleared away the buttercup (and hops from neighbour) from around the compost bins and the lovage and it only took me 3 ...Partly Cloudy 13°C / 55°F -
30 Mar 2013Chives , Herb - French Sorrel , Lovage , Backyard - Circle garden , Backyard - West Fence Veggie garden , B...
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Partly Cloudy 12°C / 54°FIt is always exciting every Spring when last year’s crops start to produce again as the weather warms up. Today I picked black kale, russian kale, striped sorrel, french sorrel, parsley, lovage, and chives. It made a delicious salad with the addition of some olives, lemon rind, red peppers ...
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19 Mar 2013
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Multiplier onions planted (early green onions)
Vegetable - Bunching onion 'Green Scallion' Planting Out and Backyard - West Fence Veggie gardenThought I’d try to grow scallions this year. Bought a package of 12 bulbs and planted them 4 inches apart along the edge of the veggie bed. They are nondescript “early green onions”. (Bonus: the package contained 15 bulbs)Overcast 11°C / 52°F -
17 Mar 2013Front yard garden , Backyard - Back deck garden , Front yard - Front porch garden , Maidenhead Fern on Back...
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Mostly Cloudy 7°C / 45°FHave been away from Folia but still find the tool very useful so will try to keep records yet again! Lots of tasks done today: raspberry patch pruned and tied up roses on East fence pruned mushroom manure added to 5 hostas and 2 ferns in pots on back deck mushroom manure added to hosta on fr...
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03 Mar 2013
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March reorganizing in the Circle garden
Backyard - West Fence Veggie garden , Herb - French Sorrel Transplanted, Fruit - Rhubarb (Victoria) Transpl...The Circle garden was getting a little overgrown last year so I thought I’d rearrange the “furniture” a bit this spring. moved Victoria Rhubarb to west veggie bed added 4 grey leafy plants from Simone tot he circle garden to go around the verbena bonariensis (the new future o...Light Rain Showers 12°C / 54°F -
23 Jun 2011Backyard - Back deck garden and Flowers - Chinese Wisteria
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18°C / 64°FI don’t claim to have the most amazing wisteria display — my friend Gerda in North Van does — but my display gets better and better every year! I created an overhead framework on the deck last year and trained the wisteria to grow along it so we would get more shade on the deck....
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15 May 2011Indoor seedling starter garden , Vegetable - Leaf Lettuce (Waldmann Green) , Arugula (Italian) - 2nd sowing...
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Grabbed an opportunity between rain showers to sow some more seeds in the garden. Got chased indoors by the rain before i could finish all I wanted to do. Groan!Rainy 12°C / 54°F
