Beth Janvrin 7/31/21 Beth Janvrin 7/31/21

The Garden in Full Colour

Stunning sunrises, good books and an overflowing garden

Beth Janvrin 7/25/21 Beth Janvrin 7/25/21

First Garlic Harvest

Bottling the homemade herbal wines, garlic harvest, parasitoid pest protection, a new book

Beth Janvrin 7/2/21 Beth Janvrin 7/2/21

Peas, Onions and Conifers

What’s ready in the Potager and a new project - The Botanicus Janvrin

Beth Janvrin 6/28/21 Beth Janvrin 6/28/21

Clover, Strawberry and Pineapple Weed Sparkling Wine

White Clover, Wild Strawberry and Pineapple Weed combine for the most incredible fragrance and hopefully, good wine. Also a recipe for Lemon Balm Wine.

Beth Janvrin 6/25/21 Beth Janvrin 6/25/21

Spring Flowers and Garden Tour

What’s blooming, first harvests, native seedlings and the rest of the potager.

Beth Janvrin 6/14/21 Beth Janvrin 6/14/21

Roses, Native Plants and the Karner Blue Butterfly

How the new Rose Garden, native grasses and the Karner Blue combine for a non-native neutral planting.

Beth Janvrin 6/7/21 Beth Janvrin 6/7/21

Rose Pruning and More Seed Planting

Roses, herbs and new gardens

Beth Janvrin 6/5/21 Beth Janvrin 6/5/21

Herbal Wine Recipes

Recipes for Tarragon Rhubarb Spring wine, Chervil Lilac Spring wine and Lilac Agastache Spring wine.

And some thoughts on myopia when it comes to yeast and the Monarch Butterfly.

Beth Janvrin 6/3/21 Beth Janvrin 6/3/21

Peppers in the Ground … and then Frost

When apple blossoms fall, or thereabouts.

Beth Janvrin 5/21/21 Beth Janvrin 5/21/21

Crabapple Blossoms and Chicks

Bush beans and beets are planted, tomatoes and peppers hardened off, cutting garden planted and chicks!

Beth Janvrin 5/5/21 Beth Janvrin 5/5/21

Sunflowers 2021

Russian Mammoth, Black Oil and Hopi Black Dye sunflower information for you zone 5, Ontario garden.

Beth Janvrin 2/17/21 Beth Janvrin 2/17/21

Tallgrass Prairie - Possibilities for Your Ontario Backyard

Beth Janvrin 2/12/21 Beth Janvrin 2/12/21

Friday 5, Sand/Sun

5 native plants for sand and sun

Beth Janvrin 2/1/21 Beth Janvrin 2/1/21

Welcome to 2021

Beth Janvrin 1/31/21 Beth Janvrin 1/31/21

Potager Lessons 2020

Seed sowing and garden oservations looking back on the year