Edibles – Gardensavvy

Annual poppies with veggies

Edibles — August 1, 2010May 25, 2023

At times the progress of the poppies seemed excessively slow, teasing us with furry buds long before they were ready to open. … Read More

Eggplant spendour

Edibles — June 23, 2010May 25, 2023

We are enjoying watching the eggplant grow up close and personal on the railing of the deck… … Read More

Tomato growing

Edibles — June 22, 2010May 25, 2023

Tomatoes are the most popular home-grown vegetable. Compared to store-bought tomatoes, your own will be a flavour sensation…. … Read More

Borage

Edibles — June 20, 2010May 25, 2023

It is one of the scruffiest looking edibles… … Read More

Early harvests

Edibles — June 20, 2010May 25, 2023

We have been revelling in fresh salad leaves… … Read More

vegetable pleasures

Edibles — June 19, 2010May 25, 2023

One of the surprises of vegetable gardening is the sheer aesthetic delight to be found in the way vegetables and herbs look as they grow. This spring the red kohlrabi has been especially pleasing. The perkiness of the leaves, the way rainwater pearls in them, the combination of the purple veins and stems with the glaucous … Continue reading “vegetable pleasures”

Zucchini in bloom

Edibles — June 13, 2010May 25, 2023

Our zucchini is blooming and setting fruit! This is one of the most fun times in the vegetable garden, when you can begin to see how the fruit will appear. Zucchini is particularly gratifying because the display of zucchinis in the grocery store gives so little away about how they grow. The plant itself is … Continue reading “Zucchini in bloom”

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Early Spring Pleasures

When bees come to visit the earliest flowers, I know that spring is truly here. … Read More

The Lowly Spirea at its Loveliest

Even the lowly (because ubiquitous) spirea can surprise you with loveliness on a blustery day in April. My main complaint is that it has too many merits, requires too little of us, which seems churlish just now, when spirea is the first shrub to leaf out most bravely. … Read More

Spring of 2020

Galanthus, more commonly: snowdrops, are one of the earliest garden pleasures in the year, often breaking through the snow long before February is over. And now in mid-March they are still looking splendidly sturdy. They are a welcome sign that spring is indeed progressing and that renewal can happen. Again. … Read More

Garden reading

Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) is a book that will astonish in its subtle weave of forms of knowing our world and in its homage to the generosity of the plants that surround us, made us, and can save us. … Read More