For some unexpected reason I became ‘smitten’ with roses over the winter. After spending days…weeks…even months reading about roses, roses & more roses spring found me visiting local nurseries with one thing on my mind. Roses. Can’t explain it. Perhaps it’s...

Starting in mid August this carrot variety was beginning to be ready for harvesting. The carrots are conical in shape with an average length of 3 inches. They have a bitter taste raw but cook to become surprisingly tender and sweet. Their smaller size makes them beautiful on a plate served whole ...

Pasqualina is finally starting to blush … and ain’t she sweet! The plants are really full of fruit and the vines are holding at around 5 feet high. The tomatoes themselves are not as round as they were from the tomatoes that the seeds came from so I’m wondering if cross pollinat...

This green is something new to me. I just love the plant growth. It resembles dandelion but isn’t as bitter in taste. With a little research I found a recipe that I’ve added on my flickr link to this photo. The recipe is based on a salad called Punterelle that is commonly found in R...

Today we harvested 3 Spanish Spice peppers to cook on the BBQ. Although they were fresh & juicy we think most of their flavour was lost in the cooking method. We will taste the next harvest fresh instead to see if the flavour will be more apparent. The peppers have developed extremely well. H...