There’s a white dragon that I see from our west vegetable garden. It hovers low along the river. It’s the puffy white snake, kilometers long, that people living beside this stretch of Slocan River see on coolish mornings. On blue-sky mornings. We see it in the morning, and then it leaves. I’m lucky to see [...]
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In a way, I feel like my partner and I have tried “all the usual stuff” that Kootenay gardeners grow, and of course we continue to grow most of that range of things. I’m talking peas, radishes, leaks, onions, carrots, beets, chard, kale, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, bell peppers, tomatoes, cukes, squash, corn, etc, etc. [...]
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The garden is a link to place and time. Every year is a little different, and some years are very different, but the devoted gardener takes it in stride. The progression of the season is not a matter of the calender, but a matter of feel. And developing the feel is one way you learn [...]
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Well this is going to be a blog space about gardening. Actually, a blog about gardening and my home region – the south-central Kootenay, a part of the Columbia-River-system drainages, and part of the Southern Selkirk Mountains. Gardeners think about things as they putter, and today I’ve spent a fair amount of time in my [...]
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