Sunday, October 25, 2009

An overview on how my gardening experiments went this summer...




This summer I planted quite a few herbs, the standards like oregano, basil (a couple different kinds), rosemary, thyme (a couple different varieties), mint, peppermint, stevia, and so on and so forth. I also planted three different kinds of tomatoes, two types of peas, swiss chard, lebanese cukes, zucchini, parsnips, a number of flowers and the list goes on.

Some things worked out well like the zucchinis of course and although it took a while my smaller varieties of tomatoes were prolific. My basil went through some ups and downs and although the lebanese cukes did well, except for a dropping of the temperature one night seemed to hit one of the plants really hard and it didn't bounce back. The swiss chard worked out well and provided some consistent greens for a while and the mints/peppermints were up and down. Considering our crazy weather, wind storms, July hail storms and the like, things went relatively well. Some things turned out and some did not. I've learned quite a bit and I'm already planning for next seasons' garden.

Here are a couple more shots of the lebanese cucumbers.

Another snippet of Summer Gardening: The Zucchini


Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Filling in the blanks...




As my lovely sister pointed out...I have postings in April and then in October...what's with the gap. Well...basically I was doing "stuff" but not posting "stuff". So, here's few pics of my gardening adventures.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

H2Oil

This past Friday I went to see a documentary of the oil sands and the detrimental effects it's having on peoples living downstream, water ways like the Athabasca River and the animals in the area. It really hit me hard and I'm really evaluating my choices in products, living habits and perhaps even my career path. We really need to stop talking and start acting on this one.