Tales from an Ottawa backyard veggie garden

Adventures in growing edibles veganically in a small townhouse backyard in Ottawa, Canada. (veganic since ~2021)

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Article on staking zucchinis and pruning them

https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/youve-been-growing-your-zucchini-all-wrong/?fbclid=IwAR2whwcvPmhdes2Dh27V4_xl9gXdlxwwCzWio3yvfamcXFwkeeeO0njr2lY
Posted by Muttsandaklutz at 7:25 PM
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Welcome!

I'm a long-time vegan and have been growing vegetables organically in my backyard for over 20 years. In 2021, I was thrilled to discover that veganic gardening is a thing, and I've loved learning and growing veganically ever since. This blog is mainly a place for me to keep track of when things were planted/harvested (as I have a lousy memory), and a place to store some gardening info and general garden ramblings. This will be ~95% edible-related, but a wee bit about some non-edibles, too. My yard is just a little postage stamp townhouse yard, in Ottawa, Canada, but -- even though it gets at most 4 or 5 hours of direct sun per day, it's amazing what can be grown!

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