It is fall and garden clean-up time in the Northern hemisphere. Mother nature in her wisdom offers an abundant, free, nutrient rich, toxin-free and stabilizing soil amendment in the forms of falling leaves. Your perennials will appreciate the layer of dried leaves, and your soil will be healthier in the next growing season. Maroon toContinue reading “Leaf Mulch Feeds and Improves Your Soil”
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Lazy Blessings
I love finding root vegetables that I didn’t plant in my garden.. Or new wild rose bushes that establish themselves without my help. “Just like me, they long to be close to you..” That old Carpenters song can follow a person everywhere… And why not… #lucky me #naturalabundance 8 November 2016
The Last Harvest Of the Year
Pounds and pounds of cherry tomatoes that I have raised from seed, hot peppers, cucumbers. The garden clean-up will be done by the weekend. It has never been so late in the year, in this region. The weather was kind this autumn. 8 November 2017
October Charm
Ah, the painter’s eye… I admire the new deep crimson in the foliage… and another shade of red, saturated, a colour similar to blood with a touch of raspberry in it. It is striking against the blues or greys in the sky and what is left of the green leaves, it is striking even onContinue reading “October Charm”
Harvest Season 2020
Start collecting your seeds for 2021. I hear my local co-gardeners and many semi-famous gardening authors and gardening content creators say the same. Many seed companies and garden centres have sold out their stocks fast this year.It is not easy to predict what will happen in the coming four seasons. When you gather your ownContinue reading “Harvest Season 2020”
Nanda Jurela 