My Way of Living [04/28/16] 

  • The few spring like days that we have had so far have mostly been allocated to spring cleaning on the deck. It’s surprising to see just how much dirt, and mess a winter of rain can make. And it’s finally time to do some pruning, tidying up, and some repotting. Repotting perennials is a little like being popular, everyone wanting y…

  • Hot TUNA and other garden disasters

    After you have been gardening for awhile you start to accumulate gardening disasters, some are excusable, a learning curve, others just make you shake your head and wonder what you were thinking. There are a few that I am probably going to have to live with for a very long time. One of them was planting what I thought was a nice g…

  • Farm fresh is the absolute best

    It’s asparagus time, and this is our very first year of being here when they start picking at my Sister’s farm in Armstrong. You can read her blog here, Okanagan Asparagus Farm. Delicate green spears pushing through what was frozen earth just a few weeks ago, give way to strong verdant towers of tender, delicious asparagus.We pick…

  • Now that’s a birthday celebration

    Saturday morning we wereon our way to the farm to take some photos of the first day of asparagus picking, but my husband needed to stop and get a coffee. He wheeled into the parking lot intent on his java, and we found it full of older men with great big smiles on their faces, a wide variety of colourful farm machinery, and other …