Green Zebra Tomatoes
~ Each year in my kitchen garden I like to try to grow a different variety of vegetable. This year I chose to try out green zebra tomatoes. As well as going through a really hot and humid summer, my … Continued
Egyptian Walking Onions
Egyptian walking onions, also called tree onions, perennial onions, winter onions, or just walking onions belong to the allium genus, Allium proliferum. They prefer growing in full sun, are extremely hardy and easy to grow. I find these onions are … Continued
Vegetables: Deseronto Potato Beans
Last year at Seedy Saturday I picked up a packet of Deseronto potato beans to try and grow. Each year I like to grow a variety of veggies that I don’t usually grow. This is a rare white bean from the … Continued
Vegetables: Kabouli Black Chickpeas
I love going to Seedy Saturdays and am always on the lookout for new and interesting seeds to me that I can try growing. Last year I picked up some Kabouli black chickpeas to grow in the kitchen garden. The … Continued
Jerusalem Artichoke
J is for Jerusalem Artichoke. Don’t let the name fool you, the Jerusalem Artichoke has nothing to do with artichokes or Jerusalem.It is in the sunflower family and is also called sunroot, sunchoke, or earth apple. It is a perennial … Continued
Vegetables: Monk Peas
Monk peas have a fascinating story with them and are classified as heirloom seeds. Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk, discovered the basic principles of heredity and did extensive studies using peas most of the time because the offspring could … Continued
Hap-pea with Ap’pea’ling Varieties
After two visits to Seedy Saturdays I’m hap-pea that I’ve got five ap-pea-ling varieties of peas to grow. Can you tell I love the play on words? I’ve got ‘purse’onality with my tote bags, ‘Soup’er Sunday recipes, personali’trees’ in … Continued
Purple Hyacinth Beans
Purple hyacinth beans or lablab purpureus. This is an ornamental, annual vine that I grow for the lovely flowers and coloured beans.Plants like full sun and will grow well on a south facing wall. Soil should have good drainage. The interesting … Continued
Growing Bags of Potatoes
Nothing beats that taste of homegrown potatoes. Here is how I grew several bags of potatoes, easily and without the back breaking work of digging them up. The past couple of years I’ve grown potatoes in bushel baskets and containers and … Continued
Garlic and Garlic Chives for G
I love growing garlic chives in the garden, more for the pretty white flowers than the garlic flavoured chives. I also planted some garlic for the first time last Fall. Towards the end of September 2015 I purchased some garlic … Continued
How Do Bottomless Pots Work?
How do you grow plants in the garden where the soil is so compacted or rocky that it is hard to grow anything there? I tried using bottomless pots like mini raised gardens which allowed me to fill the pot with good soil … Continued
French Breakfast Radish
This was my first year growing radishes for a very long time. I was prompted to grow them because our grandson loves to munch on them. I tried a variety called French Breakfast, listed as ideal for container growing.
Yummy Veggies
I love to grow a selection of veggies in containers on my plant tables. Soon the weather will be nice enough to start planting. Some veggies like peas, bean and root plants prefer to be planted directly into the soil. … Continued
P for Plant Tables
A couple of years ago my husband re-purposed the old deck wood into plant tables. They are very sturdy and can hold a lot of weight. A basic frame was made from some 4×4’s and some 2×6’s. Then across the top … Continued
Vegetables: Okra
This is the first time I’m trying to grow okra seed in my veggie container garden. The seeds were given out at Canada Blooms, which we visited last March. This isn’t a veggie that is on my shopping list and I … Continued