Elli Gardens - And You Can, Too!

Elli’s strawberries are coming along well!

Elli’s newest additions to her 2010 vegetable, herb and flower garden.

Elli picks up seedlings for her 2010 garden.

After a closer look, I spied what appear to be tiny grapes! If that’s the case, I hope the kind people next door don’t mind us collecting some fruits of their labours!

It does look like a pear blossom, but there are no leaves yet and the petals have pretty spots, which I haven’t been able to find online anywhere.

Check out how Elli’s garden is growing as the summer gets underway.

Elli’s garden reaches for the sun as June reaches its midpoint.

Make the perfect back yard drink for you and your guests to enjoy!

It’s been a blisteringly hot week or so in Vancouver. I’ve been watering my garden daily, sometimes twice, and still my tomatoes look tired at the end of the day. Luckily all appears to be going well!

On Friday my man and his friend filled about 14 15″ black plastic gardening pots with beautiful compost soil from the bottom of a 15-year-old horse farm manure pile. The dirt is brown and lovely and rich and doesn’t smell nasty at all.
So yesterday I fulfilled my womanly duties by mixing the new soil with [...]