Well, it is time for another instalment of the bugs we find fascinating in our yard. I’m not going to lie, there are a lot of bugs in the yard, which we have shared throughout the years. This year there is a lot of the same, and a few newbies to the party. We haven’t…
Category: Insects
Planting Plans
Kurt and I always like to spend a day or two in the very late winter deciding what we are going to plant for the upcoming gardening season. We do this late in the winter so that we have plenty of time to get our seeds started in the house before needing to be transplanted…
200 Ramblings
WOWZA! This is the 200th rambling post that I have written. I am so glad that so many of you continue to enjoy our fumbling and bumbling through landscaping our yard, and have now also been sucked into reading about our favourite garden recipes as well as some of the other hobbies and projects we…
Bees Knees, Pretty Ladies & Crawlies
As a kid, I always thought only bees were pollinators and if we ever lost them, then we would be completely doomed because we would have no food. Luckily we have a lot of pollinators out there, bees are just the best a what they do. As I continue to watch the bugs in the…
Mid-Summer Check-In
Time to do a garden check-in. Overall the garden is fantastic. Everything seems to be growing well, though we have had a few hiccups. So let’s do a quick rundown of where everything is. Our flowers are all doing great. The planters in the front yard have grown abundant, with some of the vines hitting…
Grubs Up! Entomophagy
Our cherry tree is finally producing a good amount of fruit after 3 years of getting comfortable where we planted it. It is a little bittersweet seeing all the cherries this year and knowing that we have to either try to give the tree away (transplant it), or take it down all together. If you…
Every Day I’m Brusselin’
This is our second take at growing both brussels sprouts and cauliflower, and so far things are going really well. Both sets of plants are growing beautifully and quickly, and look very healthy. The cauliflower has little orange heads started (we planted cheddar cauliflower, hence the orange colour), and will likely need to be banded…
Building Beds For Dreams – Remake
When we first started this blog of all of our landscaping adventures back in 2016, one of my first posts was labeled “Building Beds For Dreams” and it was about our first growing space that we created. They were two beautiful raised beds that have been supplying us with delicious food for the last 6…
Shag Be Gone
We had a very rainy start to the year. Based on Environment Canada, last year had a lot more precipitation, but we had warmer weather overall, so it feels like this year has been worse. June was one of the wettest and coldest we have had on record. All this moisture has been fantastic for…
Doesn’t BUG us
Being nerdy geeks, one of the things we love watching in our garden is all the different bugs, insects and critter life that we have living along side us. They are our friendly…and sometime not so friendly…neighbours. Usually we find lots of critters scurrying through the garden beds, burrowing homes between plants and finding ways…
JK Building The Dream 