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

My Lemon Balm Mead

Notes from last year’s mead making

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 5/12/21 Beth Janvrin 5/12/21

Native Bushes for the Hedgerow continued

Ninebark, Red Osier Dogwood and Serviceberry bushes for your Ontario, zone 5 pollinator and bird garden.

Beth Janvrin 5/11/21 Beth Janvrin 5/11/21

Native Bushes for the Hedgerow

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

Beth Janvrin 5/10/21 Beth Janvrin 5/10/21

Tulips and Hyacinth

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

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 5/4/21 Beth Janvrin 5/4/21

Bush Beans 2021

Dragon Tongue bush beans and Broad beans info for zone 5 Ontario vegetable gardens.

Beth Janvrin 5/3/21 Beth Janvrin 5/3/21

First Week of May in the Ontario Garden

What to plant when apples blossom in your zone 5, Ontario garden.

Beth Janvrin 4/26/21 Beth Janvrin 4/26/21

End of April Seedlings, Ontario

Phenology for the last of the cool weather flower plantings. Looking forward to May.

Beth Janvrin 4/22/21 Beth Janvrin 4/22/21

2021 Basil

The 5 varieties of basil that we planted this year.

Beth Janvrin 4/21/21 Beth Janvrin 4/21/21

2021 Greens Continued

Info on Giant Noble Spinach, Rainbow Chard and Daikon Radish for your zone 5, Ontario vegetable garden.

Beth Janvrin 4/19/21 Beth Janvrin 4/19/21

Mustard Greens, Orach and Kohlrabi

This-and-that week. First up - Greens.

Red Giant Mustard Greens, Triple Purple Orach and Early White Kohlrabi

Beth Janvrin 4/15/21 Beth Janvrin 4/15/21

2021 Tomato Patch Continued

Info for Indigo Rose Cherry, Paul Robeson and Pruden’s Purple Beefseak tomatoes. As well as Yagodka and Steakhouse Cherry tomaotes that I haven’t planted yet.

Beth Janvrin 4/14/21 Beth Janvrin 4/14/21

2021 Tomato Patch

Info for Kryptonite, Chocolate Pear and Velvet Red Cherry tomatoes.

Beth Janvrin 4/12/21 Beth Janvrin 4/12/21

Early Spring Garden, Ontario

Cold frames and returning herbs in the potager along with what seeds have sprouted and what’s next up for planting.

Beth Janvrin 4/6/21 Beth Janvrin 4/6/21

2021 Pepper Lineup Continued

The next 4 peppers for this year’s Potager: Lemon Drop, Amish Pimento Sweet, Spanish Padron Tapas and Red Manzano.

Beth Janvrin 4/5/21 Beth Janvrin 4/5/21

Hot Peppers - Brazilian Starfish, Ancho Poblano, Black Hungarian

Information for Brazilan Starfish, Ancho Poblano and Black Hungarian peppers.