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Step-by-step: How to make seed balls

January 31, 2011 by Andrea Bellamy 50 Comments

I spent the morning making seed balls as a promo for Sugar Snaps and Strawberries. The plan is to give them out at various events as little vegetal thank yous. Because the book is all about edibles, I used veggie, herb, and edible flower seeds rather than my usual crimson clover/wildflower mix. I chose cool-season […]

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Sugar Snaps and Strawberries has arrived!

November 15, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 41 Comments

An author proudly holds a copy of her newly published book

After months—nay, years—of anticipation, plus blood, sweat, and tears (though fewer than those who know me might expect), I’m thrilled to announce that Sugar Snaps and Strawberries has arrived! (Wow, that was a little like a birth announcement. Coincidence? I think not.) My advance copy (just one!) came via the slowest courier ever, and arrived […]

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Simple oven-dried tomatoes

October 3, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 15 Comments

If, for some reason, you’ve reached your saturation point for tomato-bocconcini-basil salad/bruschetta/tomato bisque/insert-name-of-favourite-tomato-recipe-here, you may be wondering what to do with all those ripe tomatoes sitting on your counter. Last week I reached that point, and, rather than let the fruit flies carry off my ‘maters, I decided to oven dry them. Following the basic […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: food preserving, popular, tomatoes

The best low-maintenance edibles: food growing for the time crunched

August 12, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Potatoes: it doesn’t get much easier. I don’t have hours a week to spend in the garden. I wish I could say that I do daily rounds of all my garden spaces, carrying a big wicker basket and leisurely harvesting things that need picking, casually plucking the occasional weed, and generally doing a lot of […]

Filed Under: Perennials, Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: fruit, low maintenance, popular, self-seeding edibles

Seaside grasses

July 28, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 2 Comments

I love the simple drama of this Crescent Beach garden; there’s only, as far as I can tell, three types of plants used here. I could never be that restrained. Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ (Maiden grass) is in the background, Pennisetum villosum (Feathertop) is in the mid-ground, and there’s another grass in the foreground that I […]

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Operation: Moss graffiti

April 16, 2007 by Andrea Bellamy 61 Comments

moss graffiti

Filed Under: Resistance is fertile Tagged With: guerilla gardening, moss, moss graffiti, moss graffitti, moss grafitti, moss paint, moss slurry, moss starter, popular

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