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.

In Vancouver Canada, the moss grows 25′ up the tree on all sides. Countless Boy Scouts and Girl Guides have been lost in the wilderness as a result.

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.

Elli checks into a new garden for 2010

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

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 [...]

It’s amazing how quickly the plants grow once the sun is out and the ground is warm! Today I counted 10 onions shoots breaking the ground. My flower bulbs have also all come up, but for the life of me I can’t recall what kind of flowers they are. EDIT: a friend has told me [...]