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And we have zucchini making an appearance! I severely overestimated the number of plants I could include in the garden beds this year, and even after adding a third bed, I had to get creative. My solution? Make some hills of dirt and plant seeds in the top as an experiment. If it worked, great.…… Read more

You just never know what you’re going to find in the garden. I hadn’t gotten around to cleaning up a small brush pile in the garden left from some pruning/brush clearing earlier this spring. I’d just about finished when I spotted these guys — by nearly stepping on them! Based on the size of the…… Read more

Snaps of some of the flowers blooming in the garden Read more

I was so excited to get these in the mail yesterday! One of my favourite parts of gardening is getting to plant and eat foods that aren’t normally available in the grocery store. These are sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem artichokes (despite having no relationship to either artichokes nor Jerusalem). A relative of sunflowers, sunchokes…… Read more

We got a big surprise when we spotted this lady in our garage today! I’ve heard of flying squirrels in our area before, but never seen any proof. We’d heard a critter scrambling around in the eaves of the garage for the last little while, so we were trying to evict it before it got…… Read more

The saskatoons are in bloom — I can’t wait to eat the berries later this summer!  Read more