Sometimes I Just Shriek
Sometimes it’s hard to handle the creepy crawlies that inhabit my garden. Sometimes I let out rather loud shrieks when you least expect it. Take, for example, the bugs above. I was talking to my son...
View ArticleKevin Kossowan: From Local Farms
I have eagerly been waiting for this series of videos to start, Kevin Kossowan has an incredibly informative and visually stunning blog and I found it thanks to his commenting here when I covered the...
View ArticlePepper Success
There may only have been two of each color. There may be only two large ones and two that seemed to have not grown as much. The yellow were supposed to be an early variety, yet took all summer as well....
View ArticleHigh Bush Cranberries
It never ceases to amaze me the available natural bounty one can find in your own city, especially a city with such a lush river valley system, such as Edmonton. We spent the day at Rundle Park, the...
View ArticleOperation Tomato
It was time to try and rescue some of my tomatoes, the night time temps here in Alberta are falling FAR below 10 degrees at night (that’s Celsius) with daytime temperatures consistently not reaching...
View ArticleFrost Sucks
Do you know the temperature last year at this time? It was in the plus 30′s, I kid you NOT. But last night, we got down to -5 and a fierce frost that killed everything in the garden that was above...
View ArticleSluggy
Oh, what would I do without the endless entertainment of my children? Children who, when they find a slug under the deck, proceed to beg and plead with their mother to keep it. A slug. Listen. They...
View ArticleLast of the Garden
That’s it, that’s all, this gardening girl done for the season folks. Just about time to retire the garden category and start posting more house things. Like, I dunno. Christmas stuff? Yah, that’ll...
View ArticleThe Garden Hits of 2010
Not. Many. Really. It wasn’t the most phenomenal summer for vegetables that I have experienced, my first year was far better than last year. I tend to start planning what I am going to grow, oh, as...
View ArticleThe Garden Fails of 2010
Bah. Just….BAH. I had 4 varieties of tomatoes and the only ones that fared well were the Lemon Boys, which I featured in my gardening hits post. The rest? The Beefsteak, Early girl and whatever the...
View ArticleAh, Spring.
Spring, the time for hope eternal. Greening grasses, blooming spring bulbs and the glimpse of the summer to come. Those who garden have green blood racing through their veins, heart jumping with...
View ArticleClifford E. Lee Bird Sanctuary
Yes, this was back on Good Friday and yes I am really late in posting these pictures. But doesn’t it cheer you up to see snow galore on the ground only a few mere weeks ago, only to look out your...
View ArticleThe Gardening Blues
I am just so not into it this year. I have mentioned before that since we have no idea when we are moving – but end of summer is almost a definite- I am not planting a garden like I usually would,...
View ArticleMagpie, Magpie, How Does Your Garden Grow?
S’alright. I have a lot of container gardening going on this year, with success in some areas and absolute failure in others. The beautiful, leafy Mesclun – a mixture of delicious greens – below is a...
View ArticleSaskatoon Picking 2011
Ah summer in Edmonton. Festivals galore, the sunshine that won’t stay longer than 10 minutes and a river valley that is a bounty of food to be found. We have been picking the Saskatoons in the River...
View ArticleEat Alberta : Your Real Food Survival Guide
Eat Alberta is back! What could be more fun than a conference about food, with local talents presenting and preparing? This conference is an excellent opportunity for everyone to get out there and...
View ArticleUtterly Yard Overwhelmed
Just writing this post stressed me right out, I kid you not. My chest is tight with stress- and the upper respiratory infection I have isn’t helping things. As exciting as it is to have a blank...
View ArticleMy Edible Front Yard Is Complete!
Oh landscaping, my nemesis. How I love to hate you. I love to plan you. I love to execute those plans. I surely love to spend the money on you. I just…hate you…at the same time. No one ever claimed I...
View ArticleCanned Pickled Beets Recipe
Ah, pickled beets. These purple beauties are most certainly a taste of my childhood as my Grandma canned beets in great numbers. Unlike most children, I have loved beets since I was a young ‘un running...
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My Secrets To Growing An Amazing Zone 3a Garden
Ok, you’ve been hounding me as to why my garden is so seriously out of control, even though I live in Edmonton, which is a Zone 3a garden. I however, am in the suburbs – almost in the country- and I...
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Magpie’s Garden 2014 – Holly Homesteader. Chickenbees. And The End.
I’m going to come straight out and admit it; holy Dinah, I am done with my garden. D-O-N-E. I could wax poetic about how ah-mazing it is to grow your own vegetables all summer long and oh my goodness,...
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