Saturday, February 20, 2010

Earth Hour - Spread The Word




http://wwf.ca/earthhour/


Thursday, February 4, 2010

can you feel it?


http://www.windowfarms.org/

this looks interesting...


window farms


What are Window Farms

Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.


Monday, August 24, 2009

THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS


"Without plants we would neither breathe nor eat. On the undersurface of every leaf a million movable lips are engaged in devouring carbon dioxide and expelling oxygen. All together, 25 million square miles of leaf surface are daily engaged in this miracle of photosynthesis, producing oxygen and food for man and beast"

an excerpt taken from the introduction of Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird's great explorative work of plants and their relation to mankind


Monday, August 10, 2009

garlic


hummus, hamos, houmous, hommos, hommus, hummos, hummous or humus


whipped up a batch of hummous with garlic from our garden

~ i add both ground and whole cumin to my hummous

cabbage.... slugs, bugs & too much rain


stopped at the garden to pick a couple tomatoes & wandered over to pick a cucumber... noticed one cabbage had been picked .... i didn't have much hope for them as they seemed to be in poor shape...
picked one to bring home... sliced in half... and sure enough it didn't look very good ... plus there were at least 5 slugs and about the same amount of bugs crawling around inside
i managed to salvage some of the cabbage... i think we can blame this on too much rain

last week i got some much needed weeding in (weeds were huge) and picked a good batch of yellow beans... they were delicious

peppers






Tuesday, July 7, 2009

visiting with the neighbours



the first bunny is from our garden


many frogs at the pond next door


gotta love the sounds of nature


and this muskrat... i was so close....



this one let me get really close
enticing me to make a mini film
while he was grooming himself


Monday, July 6, 2009

tools for tomatoes




tomatoes need assistance in order to produce a good bounty
keeping the plants supported during their growth is important
pictured are 2 types of plant ties
one is a biodegradable paper ~ the other reusable + self-gripping

growing greens



broccoli


carrots ~ will thin out tomorrow hopefully
(sharon beat me to it)



brussels sprouts (new this year)