So for every lovely long tapered carrot like the ones on the left, the garden is producing another troubling specimen like the ones on the right. Most gardening how-to books say this happens to carrots when there’s too much nitrogen in the soil or when there are big clods of clay or rock in the [. . .]
island flowers
Sometimes when I’m doing lots of flower arrangement projects or if there’s a lull in the flower blooming in my garden, I like to get flowers from other farms and gardens on Mayne Island. This week, I was lucky enough to get lots of beautiful roses, zinnias and sunflowers from Brian and Michelle at Raylia [. . .]
wedding flowers
Today I did a few table arrangements and a bridal bouquet for a small intimate wedding at the Mayne Island Resort. It was a fun little job…sometimes the small ones are the most fun. The table arrangements were an island gardeny combination of beautiful Stargazer lilies, pink and reddy/orange roses, grasses, lady’s mantle, grapevine, rosemary [. . .]
basil in the garden
I’m harvesting lots and lots of genovese basil from the garden these days! In this photo, such healthy looking transplants were waiting for me in the greenhouse this May.I start a lot of these in the spring. They’re a favourite at the Farmer’s Market and I sell tons of transplants to folks like me who [. . .]
another lily bouquet
This lily is called “Scheherazade”. I wonder how it got it’s name? Perhaps to give people like me the idea that we shouldn’t cut it? ooops….but it’s such a beautiful flower and makes a gorgeous wildly natural looking bouquet. I made this one a couple days ago. Perhaps next year I shall leave them alone, [. . .]
Tumbler tomatoes in containers, part 2
This is the time of summer when container grown tomato plants will start to go yellow and look really sad if they aren’t getting enough of the nutrients and minerals they need to be healthy and produce delicious fruit. Folks who grow the Tumbler tomato plants I sell in the spring ask me about what [. . .]