Natasha and I spent the morning attending Seedy Saturday in Britannia Park, a yearly gardening nerd event where people get together to swap seeds and stories in preparation for the upcoming gardening season. (It roughly corresponds to the start of indoor seeding time)
The Seedy Saturday event is much bigger here than in Manitoba! Although we [...]
Seedy Saturday 2012
March 3rd, 2012 · 1 Comment · Observations, Ottawa
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Garden Notes
April 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Observations
Our first year in the garden was a bit of a disaster – but like all good experiments we learned more from failure than we would have any other way. In fact, by the end we’d managed to salvage a respectable number of green peppers, and a horde of tomatoes and herbs that we had [...]
The Garden of Doctor Moreau
June 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Ottawa
After a short excursion to Westfest today we headed over to my parents to put our half of the garden into the space they generously plowed up for us. We had to spend a few hours picking clumps of sod out of the freshly turned soil, but once we set down to actual planting, it [...]
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