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Tales from an Ottawa backyard veggie garden
Adventures in growing edibles veganically in a small townhouse backyard in Ottawa, Canada. (veganic since ~2021)
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Started more peppers, and chard, forget-me-nots, and coreopsis
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Bought big bag of mrp
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Trimming onions (new this year)
This year I'm trimming the onion tops to see if that helps them bulb up at all. So, once they get two leaves, trimming occasionally.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Saturday, January 20, 2024
The Great Seed Giveway
Finally got around to purging the seed collection by giving a bunch away to the local buy nothing group.
These were given away:
Onions round 3
Because a relatively high proportion of them seem to be flopping once put into the mix.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Onions round 2
Started more bec I didn't start enough in round 1. Still all from the same commercial packet I bought recently.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
Prepared the soilless mix -- and bought new bag of seaweed meal from R's at fraction the price of Gaia
Prepared the soilless mix yesterday -- with ZERO of the leftover promix.
So, it contains only:
- peat moss
- vermiculite
- perlite
- kelp meal
- azomite
- mrp
- alfalfa pellets
- lime
- myke (actually not yet added, bought some today and will add it in before using)
And, since my kelp meal is starting to run low, bought some more from Ritchie's. The guy at the counter said either I can buy Gaia and pay over $200 for 20 kg, or I can buy a different brand that's marketed for horse feed, and pay $95 for 25 kg. !!!! So I went for the horse feed -- made by Acadian Seaplants Limited. I emailed them tonight just to confirm whether it's kelp or some other type of seaweed, so, we'll see.
Onions started in PT -- "Frontier", to try for bulbs as well as scallions
Bought these seeds from Ritchie's, "Frontier", a hybrid said to be good for short seasons and a bulb that's good for storage -- at least, based on the packet.
Will only do this type of onion this year, none of my pre-existing seeds, just to keep things simple.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Monday, November 20, 2023
Quite the white fuzz over the alfalfa under the leaves
Had a peek under the leaves and found there's quite a lot of white fuzz over the moistened alfalfa that I had put over the soil before laying the leaves over top. I'm not worried -- hopefully it's all good bio stuff happening there.
Sunday, November 12, 2023
Last carrots and beets harvested (have been several heavy frosts)
There have been several heavy frosts in recent weeks, so I harvested the rest of the carrots and beets.
I tried a carrot and can't say it seems any sweeter than the ones harvested through the summer. Haven't had one of these beets yet.
But anyway, a very decent harvest of carrots and beets, though ~15% of the carrots seem to have had some kind of insect damage, so I'll have those carrots first.