Last Chance to Plant Carrots
by Karen Dunn A Karen’s Corner Blogette June 24 is carrot planting day for this gal. In my garden I find this date works well to get a good size carrot for my winter crop. Linda Gilkeson plants her final … Continued
Bees & Blue
by Jocelyne Bourque Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) is a great bee magnet, a sweet looking blue flower, and a useful cover crop. I let mine go to seed last year and a bunch of it grew on its own this Spring … Continued
Garlic Scape and Basil Pesto
by Jennifer Banks-Doll I harvested a ton of herbs from the garden the other day, and garlic scapes! I find scapes to be one of the most fascinating shapes in my garden these days, like a swarm of snakes or … Continued
It’s Not Too Late!
By Jennifer Banks-Doll Getting the garden in this year has felt like a marathon. And it’s still going! I tried to grow all my own veggie starts from seed this year, for the first time. All my peppers, tomatoes, brassicas, … Continued
Chop and Drop Salad Bar
by Karen Dunn A Karen’s Corner Blogette About six years ago I bought a variety of Orach called Good King Henry from Seeds of Victoria. West Coast Seeds also sells it as Magenta Orach. I planted it for eating as … Continued
A Surefire Way to Start Lettuce
A Karen’s Corner Blogette by Karen Dunn It’s never too late to start some lettuce. As long as you have a shady spot in your garden or a sheltered container to plant it in, you can keep reseeding it all … Continued
Lovin’ and Learnin’ about Lettuce
by Jennifer Banks-Doll The first in a series about lettuce. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love kale and it seems to do so well on Quadra. But when I served our first lettuce salad of the year we could … Continued
The Importance of Keeping Records
by Janice Ammundsen Editor’s Note: Gardeners on Quadra have been very busy planting over the past few months. Figuring out where to put what can be a real conundrum. Relying on memory to tell us what we did last year, … Continued