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Archives for April 2008

Earth Day garden and baby update

April 22, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 15 Comments

“Oh the days are long/ ‘Til the baby comes…” – Sinead O’Connor That’s right – I’m still waiting for this baby. One week past my due date and just learned today that the baby, which for the last nine months has been perfectly positioned, has rotated and is now posterior. This just confirms my suspicions […]

Filed Under: Bulbs and Tubers, My garden, Perennials, Shrubs & Trees Tagged With: Acer palmatum dissectum 'Viridis', Acer palmatum Firegold, bc, bc native plants, beni kawa, Erythronium grandiflorum, fireglow, maidenhair fern, sword fern, Vancouver, yellow fawn lily

40 ways to encourage more local food production

April 21, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

Want to change the food system? Here are 40 great ways everyone – from individuals to the government – can do so. Some of my fave’s: For individuals:#6 Establish community canning workshops where people can work together to can food.#8.Establish a Young Farmers Institute for the next generation of farmers.#12 Encourage Community Fruit Tree Projects […]

Filed Under: Green Gardening & Living, Resistance is fertile Tagged With: 100 mile diet, eating locally, food production, local food, Sustainability

Soil pH and nutrients: amending your soil organically

April 15, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 14 Comments

Ever wonder what these funky little kits are for? Before planting in the spring, I like to do a quick soil test for pH (soil acidity or alkalinity) and nutrients (your basic NPK, or, nitrogen, phosphorous and potash [potassium]). I just use an inexpensive testing kit from a local nursery, although if you want a […]

Filed Under: How To, My garden Tagged With: alfalfa meal, alternative, blood meal, bone meal, cottonseed, fertilizer, NPK, organic, ph, ph testing, rock phosphate, soil ph, substitute, vegetarian

Thank you

April 14, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 4 Comments

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who e-mailed or commented on my last post. Your support and stories mean so much! I am going to try to squeeze in a post alerting you all when I go into labour so I can get your good vibes coming my way! On another note, it was […]

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Pregnancy limbo

April 9, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 16 Comments

I apologize for the scarcity of posts lately. With the baby due in less than a week, I should be stockpiling blog posts for the upcoming crazy newborn months. Instead, I feel quite disconnected from my gardening life, and that leaves me feeling like I’ve got not much to say. Pregnancy has now taken over […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: gardening, gardening while pregnant, pregnancy

GroBal by Karim Rashid

April 4, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

I wandered over to Velocity Art and Design after seeing housemartin’s tour of their Seattle store. What caught my eye was housemartin’s photo of the Esque terrariums (which, by the way, are beautiful, but for $600, I’d want mine to come planted, thankyouverymuch). Anyway, I was quickly distracted by GroBal, a planter by hugely-prolific product […]

Filed Under: Indoors Tagged With: grobal, house plants, housemartin, houseplant, indoor plant, karim rashid, velocity art and design

Tomato seed starting

April 1, 2008 by Andrea Bellamy 9 Comments

As I wrote earlier, for me, tomato growing is a family affair. Thank goodness! Without my mom’s greenhouse, my grandma’s saved seeds and all of our hands, the job would be nearly impossible. We grow enough for ourselves, our friends and neighbours, and this year, we’ll even have a few for the plant sales.  A […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: kelp, kelp solution, seed saving, seed starting, tomato seed, tomatoes

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