|
FarmCity Food Gardens' photostream |
|
Young pepper plant
In the West Coast growing season, some plants need an early start if you want to harvest before the...
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
Tomato sprouts
On the West Coast, to grow tomatoes from seed, you need to start them indoors by mid-March, if you...
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
New kale
Kale can be seeded directly in the soil as early as the beginning of March.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
Corn sprout
Gardening in Vancouver, we start our corn indoors about mid-April, to give it a little extra time to...
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 23, 2012
Squirrel
Squirrels, like birds, do a great job of disseminating seeds far and wide.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012
Sunflowers in late August
We generally leave the sunflower seeds for the birds to harvest as the weather turns cold in the fall.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 19, 2012
Inside a chickadee nesting box
A FarmCity nesting box opened for cleaning. There is such kindness in the care with which the nest...
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012
Chickadee nest
The spot where the eggs were laid is tiny - maybe 1-1/4 inches across.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012
chickadee in spring
Chickadees are great for the garden, eating enormous numbers of aphids as they raise their young.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012
Song Sparrow
These little birds like to nest in piles of brush. Beautiful singers!
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012
Female House Finch
The males of these birds have beautiful red colouring on their head and shoulders.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012
Hutton's Vireo
Feeding birds in winter is one way to attract birds to your food garden. Then stop feeding them in...
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 18, 2012
Harvest - Eggs and Potatoes?
The brown eggs are from the Rhode Island Reds, the blue from the Araucanas. The potatoes are, well, from the ground!
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012
Bay Tree and Grape Vine
Both the bay tree and the grape vine need pruning to get it away from that electrical wire! The bay...
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012
Squirrel's Treat at the Top of the Pear Tree
I was pruning our hundred-year-old pear tree when I spotted this half-eaten apple, left by a squirrel.
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012
Sprouting Broccoli - Winter
We've been harvesting broccoli all winter, thanks to our garden bed covers. Yum!
All rights reserved
Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012
Medicinal plants
West 15th Project
East Georgia
Yew Street Deck and Grape...
Herbs
Kitsilano Tree House Project
Boulevard Garden on Windsor...
Food Gardening in Vancouver
