Not so Squished
Everything is green! The Marcato peppers are a very nice size - all green! Shishito peppers - green. At least I can harvest them green. Another new variety is the Doe Hill pepper. They are round, and green! Remember my Arbol pepper plant that looked all gnarly? It's grown out of that phase (or the thrips have moved ...
I honestly never feel I need to say much when it comes to talking about my gazanias. The photos speak for themselves. Their behaviour is so graceful, and I would love to one day capture it in time lapse.
Unlike bees, I am terribly afraid of wasps. Don't you agree that they have a very menacing look, like they are deliberately out to taunt and terrify? That's what I see. Wasps keep me out of my own garden, and I notice them in the mid-late afternoons when the sun is out and my garden ...
My no longer fruit producing Alpine strawberry plant remains on the potting table. The leaves have been yellowing, so I fertilized it a few weeks ago, and the leaf colour is slowly improving. What remained a big mystery for many weeks, maybe even over a month, has been the hole-punched leaves. I had posted a ...
The title of this post isn't directly related to the feature photo, but I couldn't resist posting the photo of the beautiful pasta dish. This morning I was craving some food from Alimentari, specifically long pasta with a simple tomato sauce. I've actually been thinking about it ever since we visited the shop for arborio ...
There are different things you can do with garlic scapes, and since hubs said he was bringing home lamb chops, I thought why not make some pesto? I have a lot of fresh basil that also needs to be used, so this was a perfect pairing. Here is a good recipe. I used about 7-8 scapes, ...
I loved the beauty of the Gazanias last year, so this year I seeded again (New Day mix). I usually seed in a seed starting medium, and it grows to a certain mangled looking stage and then it's almost like it freezes in time and does nothing more. Last year I seeded on February 29, ...
Canada is 150 years old! Officially the stat holiday is tomorrow, but I was given the Friday off and will be heading back to work tomorrow. Luckily hubs has a flexible schedule, and we still got to spend the long weekend together. The weather hasn't been perfect, but at least it wasn't a washout. On Friday, ...
Year one of growing garlic in my own garden is going well so far. I wasn't sure how they would fare as there are squirrels in the neighborhood, and they love digging everything up. In addition to these urban pests, the soil where I planted the bulbs last fall is not ideal. It's mostly clay ...
A few days ago I photographed the above flower buds. The tight little balls are too irresistible and cried out to be photographed. This is the Chinese Five chili plant. I love the colour of this plant, right from the start. The leaves and stem are purplish, as are the flowers. The peppers are an ...