Elli Gardens - And You Can, Too!

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

Elli picks up seedlings for her 2010 garden.

Faced with such a massive, mature flower garden as we are in our new place, we appeared to be spoiled for choice. However, after seriously considering sunlight strength and direction and duration, we’ve decided on the north side of the back yard for our vegetable garden.

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.

Learn to cook fresh trout with simple garden items!

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 [...]

My new dirt has arrived! I’m filled with excitement at putting my plants into better soil and trepidation at the amount of work ahead.
What’s wrong with the dirt at hand? Well, after much discussion with my gardening friends, we’ve determined that the “garden soil” and “organic enhancement” I purchased to house my lovelies in [...]

Unbelievable! I was just getting some lunch and looking out my kitchen window when I saw a pretty Stellar’s Jay hopping around my backyard. “How cute, ” I thought. Then he jumped into my garden. Then he started pulling up an onion! Since when do birds eat baby onions? When I got out to the [...]