Mountain-Toes Gardening

The Slocan Valley Garden Tour has taken place for many years, and Lou and I have usually gone on it to enjoy seeing other people’s places. This year, organizers asked us if we’d put our place on the tour – and we decided to try it. Sunday June 19 was the designated date for the [...]

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I got the corn in.  A fair-size patch near one end of our larger garden.   After transplanting, the early-started (indoors) corn plants are standing up in the first rows.  I did a lot of direct-seeded rows, too.  I had soaked the seed I was going to plant directly in the garden – giving it about [...]

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