Beebalm and Oregano blooming happily together under a July sun. In the middle of winter, midcalf deep in snow (normally it's knee deep but it was unseasonably warm in December), this picture looks to me as if it were from a dream.
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An enabling site for the horticulturally obsessed. Life around my urban plot is green! (except in the middle of winter in Canadian zone 5a then it's mostly sludgy brown and white.)
What's going on in the garden?
Updated Sept 9 - the pest report
My cabbage was attacked by head rot because some of them split though most of the Mammath red rock was a-ok. Carrots have some bite marks but the beets look and taste fab. My alliums were raded by leek moth which not surprisingly nabbed all the leeks and left the perennial onions sparse. Garlic chives were more or less unaffected. This is the fourth year running that the chinese lanterns have kept the colorado potato beetle away from my solanums and I saw nary a cucumber beetle this year but then again I was away.
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Me and my blog
- Ottawa Gardener
- Ottawa, Canada
- My passion is edibles especially those that take care of themselves. Our new garden is in rural Ottawa valley surrounded by woods. Learn more on Facebook. ottawagardener@live.com
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Blogroll - more coming soon
Green Thumb Sunday
I will soon be placing the blogs I read most and other like minded blogs.
I will soon be placing the blogs I read most and other like minded blogs.
Links
- Cold Climate Gardening
- Community Gardening in Ottawa
- Dave's Garden Information
- Farmgate - gardening around Ottawa
- Floridata - great general resource
- Gardening Blog Directory Map
- Plant Cycle - trading and talking plants
- Rate that vegetable Variety Site
- Seeds of Diversity - Canada's Heritage Seed Program
- World wide Garden Forums
Favourite Books
- ... more to come ...
- Breed your own vegetable varities: popbeans, purple peas, and other innovations from the backyard garden by Deppe
- Carrots love Tomatoes by Riotte
- Edible Landscaping
- Gardening when it counts by Solomon
- Seed to Seed by Ashcroft
- Square Foot Gardening
- The 12 Month Garden by Ashton
- The 4 Season Harvest by Coleman
- The Mulch Book by Campbell
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- Seeds of Diversity Publication
- Radicchio is a perrenial?
- Composting in the winter
- Short Season Sweet Potatoes - the book
- Winter Sowing - really, I mean outdoors
- Short Season Sweet Potatoes
- Garden Planning
- Overwintering Parsnips
- It's cold but that doesn't bother the weeds.
- I ordered potatoes!
- Overwintering Peppers
- Peppers in the North
- Winter means the ground is covered or frozen
- Introduction to my Garden
- What's inside that spaceship?
- The snow a blowin' or the end of El Nino
- Exactly how many people are you feeding?
- I'm so ashamed!
- Hortiphilia
- Dreaming of Summer
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