This point in winter, just after the Solstice and during the general holiday season, always seems to me to be the most contemplative time during the year. At least in terms of my life as a gardener. Oh, yeah. I’m still digesting the experience of last year, thinking about what I want to do in [...]
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My gardening involvements at present consist of managing and harvesting lettuce and other leafies from our sun-heated greenhouse. On the mental-work side, there’s planning for next year’s planting, and also researching information about how Kootenay food gardeners can succeed in the face of challenges like solanaceous blights and clubroot! (These pursuits are ongoing, and I’ll [...]
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This year, when I think of what Earth Day represents, for some reason I think of two people who opened some understandings up for me. I say “for some reason” because I might as easily think about a lot of hikes, camping trips, or river or lake floats I’ve taken. Or think of hundreds of [...]
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When I’ve got a contract to work on, it comes in front & centre – I give it full days for as long as required. None of that at the moment. And cross-country skiing possibilities – after being first-rate for a couple weeks – have faded out for the time being. Too warm at the [...]
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Raspberries are a much awaited and enjoyed berry crop. They’re great to eat just-picked off the bushy rows or within a day or two, out of the fridge (say, in frozen yogurt). Raspberries are easy to cultivate but require some thought to plan into the garden scheme. Plus, you need to make sure the plants [...]
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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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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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