February 2022

 This month so far has had all kinds of weather...mostly cold...icy for walking for seniors....my greenhouse is thriving and enjoys the sunny days....have been transplanting some plants and clearing out some dead plants (unfortunately)....in another month, it will be time to start seedlings....we also are constructing a new shade for our greenhouse this year....it is in the works in our frozen garage....LOL  Here is a picture of a Purple Heart Boom....so pretty and definitely purpley......sun is shining on us today and it is milder -2 Celcius....yay

So much rain!

So much rain this spring and now it is raining into summer....can't do a lot of gardening due to the wetness of everything...things are growing well, but I notice lots of bug biting going on in various plants....I heard 2017 is a bad year for bugs and weeds....it is easy to weed when the ground is soft but I hate the wet so will wait on weeding.
I have been throwing out plants from my greenhouse into the compost bag....so tired of some of them so I picked out the sicky looking ones and pitched them....plants that are left are doing fantastic in the greenhouse...they love the sun when it arrives.
Tomato plants are doing well....I planted onions as well, and the herbs always do well unless a critter runs through the garden and breaks things off...like oregano and gaillardia plants....

Happy Easter Sunday 2017

Beautiful Easter Sunday....warm...up to 20 degrees Celsius...today after our visitors left, we put up the greenhouse shade....my plants will do better now...the sun was starting to scorch some leaves and the plants were drying out faster ......now that it is shady I will try to do some cleanup and throw out some dead plants.......

Finally - a breath of cool air

Oh my gosh...thank God for the lovely cool weather...today....and for the rain yesterday!  I am so thankful and so is my flower garden...my cosmos stems have strengthened because of the couple of rainfalls recently and are producing beautiful blooms....this is the first summer  I have grown seashell cosmos and they are doing well...I have been deadheading them since the start....the grass is turning green and actually growing now...we have had a record breaking hot, hot, hot summer and I am ready for a lovely cool fall and winter...after all, being Canadian, means we have some ice in our bloodstream and mine totally melted out this summer....sorry to all the people who like the hot stuff...it is yours....I'll take the cool days anytime.

First tomatoes 2016

I have picked four tomatoes so far and they are so delicious...not big but with powerful taste...I have been buying Ontario produce at Farm Boy and it is yummy....but....there is nothing like your own garden produce..

Heat Wave Now

We are having a little heat wave ...the day starts out cooler but progresses to almost 30 degrees Celsius...I do not hang out in my greenhouse when it is that temperature and I have to water my greenhouse plants daily...they love lots of water...fortunately, a lot of my greenhouse plants are succulents, but they droop a little in the heat wave...like we do.....Canadians love to complain about the weather.....fun!

This is my gorgeous pink geranium that lived in my greenhouse last winter but loves the patio now.

Clearing some of the garden

It seems early to be clearing plants from the garden but last night I pulled out some dill-covered with little orange bugs that nest in the dill flowers which makes it uneatable....I tried just knocking them off but they came back with a vengeance.  The poppies are finished flowering so they will be going into the compost heap at Lappan's Lane in the not too distant future.
I have been weeding my garden this past week and it is looking much better...the herbs and flowers have more room to grow now.  I planted old fashioned four o'clocks and can't wait for them to bloom.  My dahliah is progressing well and the Rose of Sharon has buds now.
Tomato plants are slow growing but do have little tomatoes on them.
Love Gardening.....

Robins

Robins nested in our tree this year and when gardening the mother robin was so angry with me for being under the tree where her babes were.......

I tried to tell her that she was lucky to enjoy birthing in my tree but she just swooped down and tried to bomb me......Robins are Hilarious!

Getting back to blogging in July 2016

Whew...it has been a crazy year for myself and my family...could not begin to describe things...so...I will proceed into July 2016 and talk about my greenhouse and garden....my greenhouse is doing great ....not much going on in there except for repotting new aloe vera plants and aloe juvena plants...all the geraniums are thriving on the patio in pots and the cosmos seeds that I started in the greenhouse in March are gently waving in my garden and producing blooms....the cosmos  I am growing this year are called Seashell cosmos....they are not as tall as the old fashioned cosmos and colours are pink and burgundy....now...they are just starting to bloom so I still hope for white flowers.....In my herb garden in front of the greenhouse, I have planted two tomato plants and they are now forming tomatoes...can't wait to taste them....all in all, I am pleased with my garden this summer.....