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Summer of Sustainability Garden Tour Proposal
For those of you in Hastings-Sunrise, note the Community Small Grants deadline is tomorrow! So if you were planning on getting something in, today is the day to drop those at the Hastings Community...
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So far planted in 2011.
Now here’s the garden update! The last couple of days have been really cold and wet, but despite all that, the garden seems to be moving steadily into spring mode with tulips starting to emerge and...
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Fourth quilt of 2011 finished!
Finishing is always the hardest part – binding a quilt is tricky for me, but this time I took a little more care than normal. It didn’t make it easier, but it did turn out better than many of my …...
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Three things I love about spring.
In honour of the sunshine, I’m cramming a whole bunch of things I’ve been thinking about lately under one heading. Things I love about spring: 1) Worms! Over the past few weeks I’ve been turning beds...
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Potato bags and other accomplishments
Got home on Friday from our trip to Breitenbush Hot Springs (exactly the rest and relaxation I needed) – to some decent gardening weather on the weekend. I spent Saturday cleaning out my sewing room...
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New Garden Plot @ Pandora!
This is my new garden plot at Pandora Park Community Garden which I just took over last night (by handing in my $20 garden registration fee). You would think I have enough gardening space already, but...
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What are we up to now?
I’ve been busier doing these days than writing, hence the blog neglect for the past week or so. But I’m back at it! With more than one post this week! It seems like spring has been taking forever to...
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Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution
Urban Agriculture: Ideas And Designs For The New Food Revolution David Tracey New Society, 2011 Written by a local Vancouverite, I picked up Urban Agriculture looking for a little bit of early spring...
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The latest stitchery.
It’s been awhile since I posted any craftiness on this blog – but not for a lack of things made – more from a lack of inspiration to write about them. At the moment I am in the middle of … Continue...
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New table linens for a new table
This may seem excessive, but after 20 hours working on these placemats and napkins I feel that I have earned some bragging rights. Thus, a gallery showcasing the ten placemats and napkins (plus trivet)...
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Book bags for grad school girls
I’ve been quiet on here lately, but not for lack of doing. Problem is, when you are making gifts, you can’t post them until they have been given! So here I present one of my recent projects – dreamed...
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If winter never ends……
It will be awhile before anyone is wearing my latest crochet creation – given that we are heading into summer (I hope – please Vancouver weather, time to co-operate!) – but I’m putting this one away...
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Yesterday gardening.
I have no garden pictures to share at the moment, because by the time we finished yesterday I just couldn’t be bothered to run all the way upstairs, get the camera and come back down. Pictures later...
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More sewing.
It’s been a bit drizzly and only warming up very lately so I’ve been a lot more focused inside than outside. But this simple sewn tablecloth for the patio dinner table is the bridge between winter and...
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The front yard job.
After two years of talking plans for the front yard, we finally broke ground on our little plan back in May. You might remember this photo of the initial attack: Since then, we have intermittently...
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My Pandora Park plot
I have a new summer dress to show off but no photos of it yet so instead it is pictures of my community garden plot which I finally got down to working on Sunday. When I got there, the plot … Continue...
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In the garden mid-June.
Just a brief post this morning to herald the return of more garden-friendly weather! In the last two weeks things have really picked up around here and the veggie beds are finally getting it together...
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Garlic scape pesto
For all my complaining about the weather this year, when I actually get out into my garden I have to acknowledge that it’s coming along pretty well. I’ve had a hard time with some things (salad greens...
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Rhubarb canning, 2011.
Strawberry season + seven and a half pounds of rhubarb from the back garden + long weekend = first canning of 2011! Result? Six tins of pie filling, eight jars of jam and six jars of rhubarb chutney...
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Eternal green onions…..
A friend showed me this trick and I think its too cool not to share. Supermarket green onions (and any other bulbing scallion) will put out new green onion when immersed in water. And it happens...
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