It's gardening season! And gardening leads to organic fruit and veggie production which leads to my mouth, so I think talking about gardening is pretty germane to the aims of this blog.
A few weeks ago, Ed and I planted some tomatoes and peppers into little peat pods. I got the seeds a few weekends back from
Seedy Sunday, an organic seed fair with tonnes and tonnes of heirloom varieties (thanks for the tip, HC and SJ!). The tomatoes we're planting this year are Costoluto Genovese, an amazing Italian tomato perfect for sauce, and Champagne, some sort of hybrid variety that comes out sweet, yellow, and perfect to eat fresh. The peppers are a Bell cultivar.
A couple of weeks later, they looked like this (notice the sad sideways one, which is now existing happily upright in its new digs)...
So we decided that it was time to plant them, some into pots...
And some into containers (I found them on the street! I think they're Canada Post bins, perfect for container gardening. Yoink.)...
The current state of affairs includes the aforementioned potted/containered tomatoes and peppers (the littler guys are peppers):
The plants from last year that survived the winter (from left to right, raspberry, thyme, strawberry, and a creepy ground covering that we're thinking about using for a green roof over the shed):
Our water barrel, set up artfully with the help of Ed's plumbing handiwork and my genius idea to use a tire (which I picked up originally to build a potato tower) to hold it high enough off the ground to use the faucet (we're still planting potatoes, but in a different container type, more to come on that in later entries):
And our back garden, which is weeded and ready to receive seed (ew?). Which it shall, this weekend! In addition to the tomatoes and peppers, we also plan to grow kale (russian and dinosaur. DINOSAUR.), rainbow swiss chard, butter lettuce, snowpeas, potatoes (french fingerling and german butterball), zucchini, beets, and carrots.
Many many many unending thanks to Ed's parents for donating the water barrel, tools, and time to help us get our yard ready for the season.
Emily, where are you? :)
P.S. If anyone is interested in a tomato seedling, let me know, since we've got several healthy ones going and wouldn't mind one bit spreading the love!
Pretty fiddlehead
A couple of weeks later, they looked like this (notice the sad sideways one, which is now existing happily upright in its new digs)...
So we decided that it was time to plant them, some into pots...
And some into containers (I found them on the street! I think they're Canada Post bins, perfect for container gardening. Yoink.)...
The current state of affairs includes the aforementioned potted/containered tomatoes and peppers (the littler guys are peppers):
The plants from last year that survived the winter (from left to right, raspberry, thyme, strawberry, and a creepy ground covering that we're thinking about using for a green roof over the shed):
Our water barrel, set up artfully with the help of Ed's plumbing handiwork and my genius idea to use a tire (which I picked up originally to build a potato tower) to hold it high enough off the ground to use the faucet (we're still planting potatoes, but in a different container type, more to come on that in later entries):
And our back garden, which is weeded and ready to receive seed (ew?). Which it shall, this weekend! In addition to the tomatoes and peppers, we also plan to grow kale (russian and dinosaur. DINOSAUR.), rainbow swiss chard, butter lettuce, snowpeas, potatoes (french fingerling and german butterball), zucchini, beets, and carrots.
Many many many unending thanks to Ed's parents for donating the water barrel, tools, and time to help us get our yard ready for the season.
