Growing my own strawberries this year

Last year I planted a couple strawberry plants in my side bed where it’s quite sunny, as a bit of an experiment. I don’t have a lot of veggie space to devote full time to strawberries, but I thought it might be nice to pick a couple handfuls of berries now and then. Last year…

It only took a year

Over the Christmas break I was finally able to really buckle down and finish breathing new life into this old cabinet, which I wrote about originally well over a year ago. It’s been sitting in my basement in pieces waiting for some TLC, and now I can finally say it’s pretty much done. Or at…

Spring eats, part deux

Just the other day I was thinking, “Gee, I probably should have thinned out those radishes a couple weeks ago…” Then my elderly neighbour said, “Just thin them by harvesting them!”  Like, duh. I didn’t even realize they were ready yet! All weekend we’ve been munching fresh juicy radishes from the garden, spring onions, as…