When we meet someone new this is often the first question that is exchanged – “What Do You Do?”. In many ways it helps to form an understanding about the person we’re talking to. I’ve always felt a bit awkward answering this question – I don’t really feel like my occupation defines me very well. […]
Square Foot Garden Year Two
Last year Andrew and I planted a Square Foot Garden for the first time. We loved how easy it was to plant and how little maintenance it required throughout the growing season. This year we decided to keep with the square foot gardening and built two additional square foot gardens. We learned a bit from […]
Spring and Gardening With A Toddler
Little Miss loves outside, and puddles, and running, and puppies. All of which are great things and I generally love all of them too – though we don’t have dogs so I’m not sure why she is currently so obsessed with puppies. With the changing of the season the gardens are starting to bloom, the […]
Garden Maintenance
This past weekend we spent some time playing in the dirt. We did some fall garden cleanup and maintenance including harvesting the last of the root vegetables, pulling out dead plants, and getting the soil ready for compost. Both Andrew and I remarked on how much easier it was to do this maintenance on the […]
Fall Gardening
It’s been a busy fall with lots of activity in the veggie garden. For the first time in a number of years Andrew and I successful grew zucchini. Now we just need to figure out new ways to eat that tasty vegetable. And I’m sure there is more in the garden that we need to […]
Sharing and Gardening
One of my favourite parts about having a garden (other than eating the delicious veggies) is sharing produce and talking about gardening with other people. I love the idea of trading vegetables, sharing bountiful produce, and having a gardening community. Within our local family and friends we try to share plentiful produce. This summer we’ve […]
Pole vs Bush Beans
This year has included many gardening firsts at Oslicken Acres. One of those firsts included the planting of pole beans. In the past Andrew and I have planted both green and yellow bush beans. These have typically grown well and provided us with lots of tasty beans — some years so many beans that we’ve […]
Garden Tomatoes
Our tomato plants are crowded this year. We put too many plants into too little space in the square foot garden. But despite these close living quarters the plants are producing tasty fruit. Andrew isn’t a huge fan of tomatoes. He doesn’t mind tomato products like pasta sauce and can tolerate small cooked bits of […]
Lilies in Abundance
I have recently become moderately obsessed with our flower gardens. And Andrew can attest to my unexplained love of lilies. I’ve dragged him outside on more than one occasion to go look at lilies that have recently come into bloom in our garden. For the past few years our flowerbeds have included both yellow and […]
Square Foot Garden Update
As I mentioned earlier Andrew and I are trying our hands at Square Foot Gardening for the first time this year. When I last wrote we were thrilled with how quickly we were able to plant the garden. It’s now mid summer and our new gardens are thriving. We’ve already been treated to lettuce, radishes, […]