Wren's Garden

As it Stands Right Now

Sometimes an idea just won’t leave you alone until you give up and start working on it.
That is true for both my little garden that inspired this mini-website and the design behind it.

August 18th 2010

Farmville eat your heart out! Look at that Beastie! I harvested that award winning carrot the other day - maybe starting them in pots was a good thing after all, if you’re after wider carrots as opposed to long. I’m yet to taste it, but I’m sure it will be delicious. And yes beside that monster of a carrot and its siblings are the first tomatoes of the season! Yum!

No Carrots were harmed in the making

Did I mention that the Chief Excavation Expert also loves carrots. And that leaving freshly picked carrots on the grass whilst trying to photograph them is not a good idea when she’s around. Let’s just say it was close. Very close.

In other news - the Lettuce is pretty much done, due to my lack of forward thinking mainly, seems I didn’t stagger them enough, so now I’ve ran out, though I had a couple of smaller ones that might make it for the autumn as well as a few baby carrots. As I thought would happen - the first year will be a year of lessons.

Lessons learnt so far:

  1. ✤Don’t plant too early (when you live in Canada)

  2. ✤Protect seedlings from getting too much water in the spring

  3. ✤Wild strawberries (aka nuggets of yum), will start off slow and then slowly take over the whole vegetable patch in a style similar to that of Crab Grass and the Great Battle for the Veggie Patch

  4. ✤Lemon Balm will also do this - but to a lesser extent


Speaking of Lemon Balm:

I’m currently suffering from a cold and so I thought I’d take advantage of the fact that this stuff is apparently great for a lot of health issues including colds and headaches. I am, as I type tasting my first cup of home-made, home-grown Lemon Balm tea with a dash of Beeton honey. It tastes a bit like Lemon and Honey (of course), but the taste is subtler and smoother, we’ll see if it works!

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Tomatoes ‘R’ Us

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I thought the day would never come when I saw the Tomatoes finally ripen, but look - they finally are! I absolutely love tomatoes and never get sick of them. I also always forget how good home grown ones taste. My favourite use of them? Pasta, fresh basil leaves (plenty of that too - see below), olive oil, seasoning, chunks of tomatoes, mix together and Voila! One simply but delish dish!

The ones that are ripening right now are from the plant that I bought when I thought my tomato seeds hadn’t made it. But just they are now equal in size and just waiting to go ripe - so perhaps I got my timing right with these!

Other Successes

The pepper is finally flowering. It got a little stunted I think because I planted it too close to the Basil, which I presumed wasn’t going to do well - since I’ve never been particularly good at growing Basil. The Basil however is now almost tree-like in proportions and so the pepper has given up growing leaves on that side - but at least it’s flowering! Of course it doesn’t help that some creature has been nibbling at the leaves too.

And last but not least I was doing a much needed weeding session the other day after several weeks of neglect and I found this lovely little flower (a violet?), hidden amongst the weeds, so I weeded everything else out and left him there to flourish... yes it’s a ‘he’, ...yes I name my plants... Ermentrude (the fern), O’Toole (the Shamrock), Tomsk (the bonsai) and Norbert (the ivy) if you must know... no, I havn’t named all the plants in my Veggie garden... yet...

Suggestions for the name of this little guy will be accepted via email.