A brisk walk through UBC Botanical

The quintessential winter salad garden!

Happy New Year to you all. The 11th of January was a nice bright day, the kind of day for a winter walk with a pace slightly quickened by the cold air. The Botanical Garden at UBC is one of Vancouver’s ideal spots for such a walk, with lots of [...]

Spinach!

Bordeaux f1

It’s not much use grumbling about the weather, but this spring has not been a great one for gardening so far. Now that it’s June, we finally have a warm, sunny weekend, and can contemplate other types of garden vegetables. But to date there hasn’t been much going on in my garden aside [...]