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Oh what times in the Maritimes
Posted: 08 Jan 2014 Posted: 26 Oct 2013 Posted: 22 Aug 2013 All Entries |
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Oh what times in the Maritimes
Category: What's In My Garden | Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:12 pm Oh my! I know most of the country is in a deep freeze but with all the snow and ice I am ready for spring! Seems like we have been living in the "Ice Age". Before Christmas we had a major ice storm. Power was out to thousands of home across the province. Some folks never got there hydro back until a few days after New Years. We were fortunate as we had no power for only about 18 hours. Our little generator kept the freezer and fridge going in turns. Also we were able to run a heater and a hot plate. The generator could not draw water from our well however we were comfortable. My pine tree had the limbs sheared off. DH will be cutting it down in the spring and sawing out some lumber from it. We have our own saw mill. Before Christmas I also lost my 2 year old computer. We were having problems so we did a backup and restore to factory settings. I could not bring up a web page, it would just flash and then disappear. Odd though I had Skype, a couple of photo editors and Google earth. Well, everything worked out fine until we tried to reload Windows. The cds will not reload. Come to the conclusion that it is the hard drive. We still had our old computer with XP. Connected it up and at least I can get on the internet. Slow but here I am! Skype will not load so I am out of Skype until we decide what to do with the other computer. Just the basics on here. Another disappoint. It seems I can not upload photos no matter how small I make them. Computer's fault I perceive. I had a lot of pretty ice pictures of tress and landscape that I wanted to show. Oh well,I am thankful that I can still visit my favorite site "Garden Stew"! Happy note... I planted my strawberry seeds today...yea!! Now I must go shovel some snow. This blog entry has been viewed 264 times
Goodbye Garden 2013 You were good to us
Category: What's In My Garden | Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2013 6:11 pm This has been a very interesting gardening year with a few new firsts. We did a total turn around and decided to go with non GMO seeds. Since they are more expensive here and not a lot of variety I ordered them from a seed company in the United States. The year started off with rain and more rain! I was in to June before I could start planting. Since the ground was warm the seeds starting sprouting quickly. I was worried about the green beans. As they were pushing their way through the earth the rocks were cutting the delicate sprouts. However, I ended up with more than I knew what to do with and was giving them away to friends. Blight struck after a spell of hot muggy weather. I lost the corn (except for five ears that we enjoyed). Then the blight slowly moved into the cucumbers and squash. Ah tomatoes were spared! I did get plenty of cucumbers to make green sweet relish and some for the table as well. So the cukes were not a total loss. The buttercup squash only produced three because of the blight. The butternut squash struggled on and produced 30 small and medium squash. Butternut squash were a first for me this year. I always wanted to try them and they proved out delicious! Well, now the turnips were a complete surprise. They grew nicely and looked good. When I cut one open I was perplexed of the color. They are white in the flesh. I have never seen any like this before and I would say I was not completely satisfied over the taste. Our turnips inside are nice yellow so the white ones to me were just not pleasing on the plate. I will be planting our turnip seeds from now on. All the other vegetables were a success considering the late planting. I also had the joy of a greenhouse this year. Not large it is a 6 by 8 but perfect for me. I started tomatoes, watermelon, peppers, squash and some flower seeds. I didn't realize that plants grew so quickly in a green house and they really need to go into the garden long before they did. I had all the tomatoes I needed and ended up giving about 156 pounds away. In the potato department I have about 500 pounds.. We grow Green Mountain as we like a nice dry potato. Some of these will be seed for next year. So now everything is either frozen or canned waiting to be enjoyed this winter. I had extra beans so I dried them for next year's planting. We certainly enjoyed our non GMO garden and hope to continue with this kind of gardening. This blog entry has been viewed 282 times
Oh Those Critters!
Category: What's In My Garden | Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 5:58 pm We have electric fencing around the gardens. High population of deer on our property. Last year I planted my squash and cucumbers out side the fence as the deer never bothered them before. Needless to say they cleaned them! So, this year everything goes inside the fence. Woke the other night to that smell that everyone dreads. You guessed it. Peppi Le Pew was around. First thought was that the neighbour's dog and he had a confrontation. Nope, not at all. Up near the rows of peas and beans he tried to get under the fence. Naturally the fence zapped him. I guess he thought that he was under attack! Thankfully his tail end was pointed away from the garden and into the field. Still smell pretty awful in that spot though....ewwww! This blog entry has been viewed 341 times
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