Freezing Goodness
At this time of the year when fresh, local veggies are available I love to buy extras and freeze for use over the winter. I’ve been stocking up the freezer with homegrown and local goodness. Beans and peas grown in … 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
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
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
It’s “Bean” a Lilac Bush …
… and now it’s a bottle tree bean support! One of the lilac bushes didn’t survive the winter and even though I talked nicely to it, trimmed off some broken bits it still didn’t give off any buds. So … Continued
Up the Pole
Pole beans are great for growing in small spaces as they train really well to grow up a pole or trellis. The seeds were planted May 11. By May 20 they were sprouting out of the ground. Two little leaves … Continued
Scarlet Runner Beans
S is for Scarlet runner beans. The scarlet runner beans, Phaseolus coccineus, are a vigorous vine that grows really well up a trellis or a teepee of bamboo poles. Each vine will grow upwards of 2 meters. These are popular beans … Continued