By Terry Phillips In Part 1, I outlined four limiting factors in my garden on Quadra Island, how they affect productivity, and how I attempt to overcome them to make more things grow better. Now in Part 2, I will … Continued
By Terry Phillips What does your garden have in common with Economics, Chemistry, Ecology, Technology, and Development? Something called Limiting Factors. I just discovered that there is actually a LAW governing limiting factors of growth. It’s called “Liebig’s Law of … Continued
By Jennifer Banks-Doll The Garden Club held a fun workshop recently. We learned how to make wreaths! Using the technique used by prolific wreath maker Judy O’Dell, we first made frames by binding stalks of Scotch broom together with wire. … Continued
Yesterday the Garden Club hosted a Zoom meeting on putting your garden to bed for the winter. To see the slideshow that was used, please click on the image below and then scroll through. Enjoy!
A Karen’s Corner Blogette By Karen Dunn The other day someone wondered why I would grow my own mushrooms when I could go and forage out in the forest. And although we do love going into the woods to forage … Continued
A Karen’s Corner Blogette By Karen Dunn Do you have an abundance of cilantro right now? Every year I make cilantro sauce and freeze it to use throughout the year. Scroll through the photos below and read the captions to … Continued
A Karen’s Corner Blogette by Karen Dunn I have started drying chives for my homemade seasoning salt. While they sit on the counter drying we use a pinch or two in whatever we are eating. Fresh chives on a fried … Continued
By Allan Mandell Last spring, the first “Pandemic Project” I launched into was enlarging our home veggie garden and putting in raised beds. I wanted deep beds full of rich dark planting soil, easy to reach into with no more … Continued
By Karen Dunn A Karen’s Corner Blogette Although I haven’t been a serious rose gardener, I do love the ones I have. And thanks to local gardener Kirsten Eastland and her passion for roses, I am slowly expanding my collection. … Continued
By Terry Phillips. Editor’s Note: In 2020 Terry did a three-part series on Growing Storage Onions: Part 1: Getting Ready Part 2: Seeds, Sets, or Starts: How Do You Decide? Part 3: Transplanting, Watering & Harvesting She also wrote a fourth … Continued