
Spring blooms on South Georgian Bay
Blooms to look forward to this spring around the waters of South Georgian Bay - possibly an upcoming collection of sketches


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

Introducing Crofting Garden Designs
Whats growing in the Potager and a new project - Crofting: Garden Designs.

Peas, Onions and Conifers
What’s ready in the Potager and a new project - The Botanicus Janvrin

Spring Flowers and Garden Tour
What’s blooming, first harvests, native seedlings and the rest of the potager.

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.


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

Native Bushes for the Hedgerow continued
Ninebark, Red Osier Dogwood and Serviceberry bushes for your Ontario, zone 5 pollinator and bird garden.

Native Bushes for the Hedgerow
Buttonbush, Gray Dogwood and Nannyberry planted for edible berries, pollinator value and to feed the birds.

Tulips and Hyacinth
Shifting native perrenials to the new front garden and the native hedgerow bushes are leafing out.

The Friday 5, Homestead Happenings
Seeds planted when crocuses bloom, tallgrass prairie, turkey eggs, Calamondin oranges and pruning pepper plants.






