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Folks here on Mayne Island often ask me what my favourite cherry tomatoes are and if they can get plants for their gardens from me in the springtime. So here are my favourites (for now).  These are the varieties that I’ll be growing in my own garden this year.  I’ve linked them to where I  [. . .]

February’s almost over and very soon, there’ll be less time in my days for desk and paper work.  In a little more than a week it’ll be March! In 2013, I only made 2 posts on this blog, whoa!!….and I learned that when I suddenly stop posting on my blog, some of the folks who  [. . .]

I took a little time to stop and smell the roses a couple days ago and made this quicky rose bouquet just for me.  A mini rose vine in a vase, bringing the garden into the house for a little indoor beauty and aromatherapy.  such a joy! Cécile Brunner has just started getting her bloom  [. . .]

Shoot Salad Mix:  pea shoots, sunflower shoots and purple daikon radish shoots…..this mix is really popular with customers in Victoria.  And I love them too. Hi everyone!  I’ve been away from the blog for quite a while…and I have so much to write about but it’s really a challenge to make the time to get  [. . .]

Wow, it’s the first day of fall.   Apple abundance is always a part of this transition time of year in the garden. Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards hangs out around here,  I’m sure I feel her presence.  I read somewhere that the pruning knife was her sacred tool! This  [. . .]

Last winter, I ordered some Tropeana Lunga onion seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. So I planted them in starter cells and little black pots in the greenhouse and watched them grow. Onion seed needs to be planted in winter to get a good start (I plant mine in late January/early February).   But  I  could probably plant  [. . .]