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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 [...] Well it’s been a shamefully long time since my last post. Happily, during that time we managed to get the 2o12 catalogue sorted and off to print. It’s now back from the printer and just starting to ship. I’ve also managed to review the website, and bring everything up to date. I’ve finally had a [...] 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 [...] Impress your friends by using the correct pronunciation: may-ching-choy. This hybrid Shanghai pac choi is a plant for lovers of consistency. I planted a 4 foot row in one of my raised beds back on April 15th, and just harvested 12 incredibly uniform plants with buds just beginning to show at the centre of each [...] This is the sort of news that organic gardeners in BC should get excited about. Linda has been writing about organic growing in south coastal BC for many years. Her book on winter gardening, Year-Round Harvest, has been a standby reference for local winter gardeners, and is now in its second printing. Her classic text [...] 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 [...] My friends at The World in a Garden are running a series of gardening workshops this summer at their lovely community plot at West 57th and West Boulevard in Vancouver (across from Choices market). On June 27th, they launch the series with a talk on companion planting. WCS will be on hand with some seeds [...] 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 [...] |
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