I completely forgot to share our May comparisons! I was about to start to June comparisons post when I realized, we did in fact do some harvesting in May…though not much. With a very cool, wet start to the growing season, we are about a month behind on everything. It will be interesting to see…
Category: gardening
Rhubarb Drinkie Poo
When processing rhubarb, you are often left with a delicious batch of tart, brightly coloured juice. I often add it directly to smoothies, but this last batch, I decided to try something new. Meet the Green Tea Rhubarb Lemonade. Ingredients Juice from processing rhubarb (stewed) Green tea (brewed) 4 lemons Sweetener Instructions Step 1 Pour…
Rhubarb Leather
I shared the first steps in this process in my post “Rhubarb Stewie“, which made some delicious stewed rhubarb. It was more than we needed, so I continued to process some of the stewed rhubarb into the next delicious rhubarb recipe – Fruit leather! Ingredients 4 cups stewed rhubarb 1 medium ziplock back of strawberries…
Rhubarb Stewie
One of the very first things we harvest every year from our garden is rhubarb. Generally I make pies, or crumbles with the rhubarb, but I do have another few favourite recipes as well as a new one that is going to become a summer staple. Last weekend we had to take a break from…
Feed Me Seymour!
They are out of control! Voracious, sprouting, insatiable…weeds! I wished and wished for a mild summer, and I have gotten what I asked for. Though, I didn’t expect it to be so wet, but I guess a mild summer in a semi-arid desert is generally that way because of a wetter season. Along with a…
Pluviophile
Well, here we are, well into June, though you wouldn’t know it by the type of weather we are having. Here in the interior of BC, we are experiencing a rainy May and June. We have had below average temperatures and very few days without rain. Now, I am not complaining per se. My hope…
Seed Savings
A little double entendre here that will relate to the how our season this year began and how it is going to end. Let’s start at the beginning. This year, we decided to really jump into starting as many plants from seed as we could. We have always started some of our vegetables from seed,…
Earths Laughter
Earth Laughs in Flowers – Ralph Waldo Emerson It has been a cold, rainy and dreary month as I have noted in the past few posts. So continues the cold trudge of winter grasping greedily at spring and her bounty. Usually, by this time of year, we are pulling out the shorts and getting ready…
Scallywags & Rapscallions
This is a bit of a short post, but a fun one. We have been gardening in some form for the last 12 years. When Kurt and I first moved in together, we were renting a house with the worst back yard. There was no fence, no landscaping, and like our current house, had a…
Everyday We’re Gardening
Well, the time has finally come…garden day! Our plants inside are very ready to get out and into the garden bed. They are huge, happy and growing like a jungle. We are fast running out of room for them all in the house, so those that can go outside are headed out! It will be…
JK Building The Dream 