The Genovese and Sweet basil types are incredibly useful in the kitchen, but I love the intense flavours from some of the other varieties, and the luxuriant colours of the purple-leaf types. I have been growing out some of our basil varieties in the greenhouse this spring, and they’re now ready for harvest – or [...]
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I harvested the rest of the choi sum, and some Amethyst radishes, and the temporarily clear spot opened up an angle to take photos of the red komatsuna, which with tah tsoi and green komatsuna, will be the basis of tonight’s dinner. Red komatsuna adds colour, and a pleasing contrast to the veg bed All [...] I’m growing komatsuna, choi sum, and Italian dandelion in raised beds in my backyard. Komatsuna grows very quickly. It seems to spend a whole week as just a seedling, and then BOOM – you can’t keep up with it. It’s tasty, too. I’ve been harvesting a bunch of the Asian greens for stir-fries, and this [...] Well, light rain, anyway. It was damp, but beautiful out at the UBC Botanical Garden. Now, I love all plants, and they have a really sensational collection out there – it’s a place more Vancouverites should know about. But I gravitate toward the Food Garden every time. Most of the food [...] Sharing Backyards is a web-based project designed to hook people with unused gardening space up with gardeners in search of garden space. Say you live downtown in a city and you don’t even have a balcony, but you want to grow some food. Although the community garden allotments are a great idea, the waiting list to [...] I love the concept of community supported agriculture. This is a relatively recent practice by which members of the community can purchase shares in the production of produce. The grower gets a down-payment for the produce she grows, so this offsets the initial cost of buying seeds, equipment, etc… and paying for land. Once the [...] I was so pleased to meet Wolff-Michael Roth today. He’s both the professor of applied cognitive science at UVIC and an intrepid, stubborn, eccentric gardener. And this fellow has it going on: Really, you must click on this picture to get a full scale view of this exquisite garden. Then click on it again for an [...] Wasps come in all kinds of forms, from tiny and easy to miss, to substantial and obnoxious. Some wasps can be a real nuisance in late summer if you’re trying to eat outside. Yellow jackets represent two related groups of wasps that are common in British Columbia, and around North America. Although they are defensive, [...] These are actually pretty neat. For years we’ve been asked about how it might be possible to grow potatoes on the balcony, and regular containers – even really deep ones – just don’t have what it takes to do this well. Potatoes need room to expand as they grow, and containers with rigid sides just [...] Andrew Burkinshaw – photo credit Joy Duggans (his aunt) What better way to celebrate the launch of this blog than to make use of the photos sent to me from Andrew Burkinshaw, via his dad, Bob? Bob lives in Abbotsford, but Andrew has been living in Nepal for the last few years, helping to set [...] |
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