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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No need to say – it’s the beauty aspect of people’s interests in gardening that attracts so many people to bulbs and corms – as in gladiolus, daffodils, and tulips. But in our climate zones here in the Kootenays, it’s generally a wise move to dig your bulbs out and store them over winter. Otherwise, [...]
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The tasks that surround gardening are many. That’s as true in the autumn – even more so, in some ways – as in the other seasons. One symbol of the fall season is the seed. Consider: Seeds are a connective link between one year and the next. The potential. The vehicle of the gardener’s intent. [...]
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Yesterday I dug out the remainder of the carrots. These were the ones we hadn’t pulled over the recent months. There’s a bear in the immediate neighbourhood, and carrots are known to be quite high on his/her list of faves. I washed the carrots off, dried them in the shade for about 24 hours, and [...]
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Given this year’s weather, fall seems to be coming early… a lot of things are sort of condensed, in a way. It all seems to be happening at once. But it’s simply a variation on the nature of autumn. As the apples ripen on our trees, we’re taking down and putting away our shade-cloth sun [...]
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It was at a couple of dinners at friends’ places last year that we really became aware of “fingerling” or “banana” potatoes. Good flavour, buttery smooth texture, a thin nicely edible skin – a complete delight to eat. I know we’d previously had them, but didn’t really know what they were. But when you’re eating [...]
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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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