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Archives for May 2010

Now Harvesting: late-May

May 31, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

Peas! The peas are here! The sugar snaps made their debut on my balcony veggie garden this week, and MY GOD, there is nothing better. Also: lettuces, scallions, leeks, radishes, arugula, spinach, and herbs. What are you harvesting? You can see what others are harvesting now on Harvest Mondays, hosted by Daphne’s Dandelions.

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: Harvest Mondays

Window box round-up

May 30, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 3 Comments

Windowbox by Sunface13 on Flickr. I remember the first time I saw window boxes worth coveting. I was 20 years old, backpacking through Europe. Although I wasn’t yet a gardener, I couldn’t help but fall in love with the perpetual, ageless villages with their cheery window boxes spilling over with geraniums. The window boxes were […]

Filed Under: Garden Design, Outdoor Living, Retail Therapy Tagged With: containers, window box

Pothole gardens

May 24, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 9 Comments

What the? Flowers in the road! Image via PeteDungey.com. Look: pothole gardens! Not sure how I missed this unique guerrilla gardening/art concept when it first popped up on the interwebs several years ago, but it’s awesome. It seems people plant potholes for various reasons. UK artist Pete Dungey planted a series of potholes across England […]

Filed Under: Inspiration, Resistance is fertile Tagged With: guerrilla gardening

Now Harvesting: mid-May

May 20, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 9 Comments

I’ve decided to introduce a regular weekly feature on Heavy Petal called Now Harvesting. I hope to share with you what I’m eating out of the garden every week until winter, or until the garden is completely empty. For my own sake, I think this will be a great way to look back on what […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: arugula, Now Harvesting, radishes, spinach

Cedar Cottage Garden Spring Fling

May 14, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy Leave a Comment

Tomorrow! Join us at the Cedar Cottage Community Garden for our annual Spring Fling event • Plant sale • Live music • Kid’s activities • Garden tours • Workshops (including “What to plant now,” led by yours truly). 11am-2pm, Victoria Drive at Hull Street, Vancouver (map)

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Seven tips to make gardening “away” easier

May 13, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

A traffic bump-out filled with greenery

Gardening at home, with easy access to seeds, tools, and water? Easy. Gardening several blocks from home? A bit more work. Gardening several blocks from home when you don’t have a car and there’s no water source near your garden? Call me lazy, but that sounds like a lot of work. Having gardened at several […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

Square foot update

May 7, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 6 Comments

In March, I wrote about the creation of my newest garden space, a raised bed planted using the square-foot method (of planting in 1′ squares). I’m happy to report that the garden, so far, is a success – turning out early producers spinach, radishes, and arugula. Left to right, top to bottom: ‘Easter Egg II’ […]

Filed Under: My garden, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: arugula, radishes, square foot gardening

Garden-themed birthday party

May 6, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 10 Comments

For Lila’s second birthday, we had a garden-themed party. Of course. What two-year-old doesn’t prefer gardening to Dora or dinosaurs? (Actually, Lila is way more familiar with turning the compost (she loves worms. Parenting success!) and picking greens than she is with cartoon figures. She still refers to her preferred (Dora-branded) toothpaste as the one […]

Filed Under: Inspiration, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Lila

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