We were busy this past few days around the homestead. We put in a new strawberry patch, tilled up the gardens and built a new pea trellis.
May 102011
May 272010
Facebook group for St. Thomas garden.
Hubby came across a video talking about the fight going on in St. Thomas, Ontario over a community garden. It seems the trouble is mainly being caused by 1 neighbor that doesn’t want the garden on her street.
To make matters worse the town board is fighting them to, but only because of the complaint. The zoning for the lot is R3 and community gardens aren’t on the “OK” list of uses. Funny enough from the info I saw on the facebook page, you could have a church or daycare there but not a GARDEN!?! Good grief…
It makes me so upset and sad when people try and stop others from growing FOOD! The urban agriculture movement has been growing in the last few year. Something that I’m so happy to see!
What do you think? Share in the comments here or on our forum.
Discord sprouts from community garden in St. Thomas
Frustration blooms over public garden
May 212010
Our weather has been very warm the past week and it looks like it will be for the next few. So we’ve been busy getting the gardens planted. Over the last few days we’ve planted the kids garden and the cabbages (early, late and red), garden huckleberries, eggplant, Italian zucchini and most of the tomatoes. I still have a few flats of tomatoes in the greenhouse. But they wont be planted for a few more weeks. Some I just started last week (bonny best, celebrity and brandywine) others were planted in egg cartons. They just did not grow as well as the ones in plastic pots. I’ve repotted them into peat pots and they should catch up soon.
Today I trimmed the grass around the raised beds and weeded them well. Tomorrow I will be planting cucumbers and beans in there. We are hoping to start planting the potatoes as well.
The ground is terribly dry, I’m hoping we really do get the rain they are predicting for Sat. This weekend is Victoria Day weekend, so it’s a good bet that we will get some rain. LOL! It always seems to rain on that weekend!
Italian Zucchini
Henderson Pink Tomato
Huckleberry
One of our gardens, photo taken from the middle. This shows were the tomatoes, cabbages, huckleberry’s, peas, onions and garlic are planted.
Jul 082009
Recorded May 27
We finally got a break in our dry weather. After 2 days of good rain we took some time to wonder around the garden. Huge earthworms everywhere.
Looking at our new garden plot. And our tractor.
