Welcome to the garden season!! This is my favorite time of year — planting the garden, sitting in the garden, watching it grow, looking at how the blossoms turn into fruit, enjoying veggies from the garden and even picking weeds. We decided to have Garden Week where we worked in the garden, filled our garden…
Category: In Our Garden
Garden Week — Planting the Garden May 2025
Happy May! Our weather has been beautiful these past few weeks! The last of the snow melted in April, the sun is warm, the plants, shrubs and trees are coming to life and that means it’s time to plant the garden! We decided to do Garden Week and finish prepping the garden beds that we…
Welcome to the 2025 Gardening Season – April 2025
After a long cold winter, it’s nice to walk around the yard and see the shrubs and garden stuff come back to life!! Let me show you what’s happening! April 10 It’s been nice enjoying the sunshine! Many of the trees and shrubs are showing signs that perhaps spring has arrived! Most shrubs are coming…
Garden Update – October 2024
Happy October! We have actually had some nice weather in October which has been great for the peppers and cucumbers. The temperature has been on average +15C/59F with a few days above +20C/68F. Unfortunately, it gets quite cold at night – usually between +1C to +8C/33F to 46F and it will get below 0C/32F in…
Harvest Week — Harvesting the Garden September 2024
It’s Harvest Week!! We decided to do something fun, and have a whole week of harvest activities!! We made all sorts of delicious fall time drinks like Pumpkin White Hot Chocolate and Harvest Punch and baked goods like Apple Fritter Bread, Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Loaf plus so much more, and we had fun being crafty too!!…
Garden Update – August 2024
Happy August!! It’s hard to believe we are in the last month of summer already! Let me show you around the garden this month. My daughter’s pumpkins are full of blossoms that are about to open! So exciting! Here’s the corn along with squash, potatoes and numerous other vegetables! The silk on the corn is…
Garden Update — July 2024
Happy July!! It’s been a hot month and the garden has grown wonderfully this month!! Having flower pots and garden beds is how we are gardening in the city! Before we had garden beds, we grew vegetables in several different types of gardening pots and we were fortunate enough to garden at a community garden….
Homemade Weed-be-Gone
It’s a hot & humid +34C/93F today…it was so hot even early this morning!! By 8am it was already +25C which was totally crazy!! This kind of heat just hits you and makes you feel yucky! Some areas of the city are +37C/98F and even +42C/107F. But the best thing with this heat is eliminating…
