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| Urban farm inspired |
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| Greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers |
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| Flowering lilies |
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| Currants ripening on the bush |
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| Yellow pear tomatoes in development |
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| Allowing wild flowers in my front yard to encourage insect life |
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| Milkweed flowers and leaves provide food and nectar. |
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| Cucumber |
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| Blueberries on the bush |
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| Maximizing space for the urban farmer |
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| Red currants |
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| Haskaps |
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| Changing the pH of the soil is slow business, but the blueberries continue the fight. Enough flowers this spring to feed my hungry face with blueberries this summer! Maybe next year the soil+age of the plants will = surplus available for sale! |
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| Grapes have been unimpressive in my poor soil, but this year their roots finally seem to have established some dominance against the stubborn grass. After two years, we see some top growth. (Grape plants have since been weeded) |
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| The orchard will produce its first grapes! |
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| The lonesome Kiwi survives. Two of her sisters and her mate have died. Without a male, these plants cannot produce fruit. |
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| One of five blueberry varieties in the orchard. |
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| There will be a huge amount of currants coming my way! I am excited to have a crop to harvest. Growing perennials is a game of patience, seeing results is a gift. One of 50+ currant bushes at the orchard...yum! |
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| A few Haskap/honeyberries have already ripened. Unfortunately the 30 plants I planted last spring have produced collectively 8 berries. Here's hoping next spring will prove more rewarding. In the meantime, I have planted a further 25 haskap plants this spring and continue to propagate new plants from cuttings. |
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| Saskatoons ripening in the sun. I purchased two varieties of Saskatoon. Lee 8 (pictured here) is producing fruit on every plant. The Martin variety has not produced a single berry. |
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| Beds planted, irrigated and sprouting. |
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| Before you can build on your success, you must build on your failures. Here, three rows of beans were planted. As you can see, success does not describe this. |
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| This bed of beans was seeded 2 weeks later, and the 5 rows are growing strong. |
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| In areas of the garden which cannot be planted to vegetables, perennial flowers provide habitat and food to wildlife and insects. |
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| Come see me at the Metcalfe Farmer's market again this week. |
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| Transporting plants to market when you don't have a truck is tricky, but my Hyundai Accent never fails to get the job done. |
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| Plant Tetris, |
