Vancouver Island Gardening
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:48 pm
They call us "The Banana Belt of the Coast, and a lot of things do grow here.
We grow the standard staples and experiment once in a while.
We have TOO many jerusalem artichokes (Who doesn't) and nothing to feed them to at the moment.
We have a long growing season, so we usually manage 2-3 crops of bush beans and dwarf peas.
We freeze everything we grow at the moment as I need to get a canner.
Planning on lots of potatoes and tomatoes this year, just cleared a new patch to plant more potatoes.
I have a greenhouse and that helps, but some experiments fail, last years Chinese Saladini was a roaring success and the runner beans got taken over from a supposedly cleared artichoke bed, and Rick picked them so late they were only good for seed.
We'll be working on the garden for the next few weeks, its that time of year here.
Lois
We grow the standard staples and experiment once in a while.
We have TOO many jerusalem artichokes (Who doesn't) and nothing to feed them to at the moment.
We have a long growing season, so we usually manage 2-3 crops of bush beans and dwarf peas.
We freeze everything we grow at the moment as I need to get a canner.
Planning on lots of potatoes and tomatoes this year, just cleared a new patch to plant more potatoes.
I have a greenhouse and that helps, but some experiments fail, last years Chinese Saladini was a roaring success and the runner beans got taken over from a supposedly cleared artichoke bed, and Rick picked them so late they were only good for seed.
We'll be working on the garden for the next few weeks, its that time of year here.
Lois