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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 [...] One of the wonderful things about living near Vancouver is the more or less constant reassurance that the seasons are changing. Here it is, just past the middle of January (!) and flowers are appearing around town. It happens very gradually, and you have to hunt them down at first. In Kitsilano and Stanley Park, [...] The centre of the China Express sui choi also shows vibrant new growth. It actually looks pretty good! I must have been tempting fate, two posts ago, when I commented on how warm it seemed for November… Flowers still in bloom, fall weather waylaid… Well, ten days later it got COLD. Icy shivering cold. I [...] We have fall, winter, and overwintering seedlings available at the WCS store in Ladner. They’re in relatively limited supply, but include kohlrabi, kale, sui choi, Swiss chard, overwintering cabbage, overwintering cauliflower, and several types of sprouting broccoli. If you’re interested, please visit the store (the seedlings are $3.00 each) and transplant them into your garden [...] 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 [...] On February 17th, I dropped by the UBC Botanical Garden’s Food Garden to drop of some seeds. Even in the low light of winter, kales are still producing, and they may be at their most beautiful stage of development. The growing tip of Red Russian Kale: Red in the centre, with pink veins lining large, flat, [...] |
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