Micro-greens!

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Apple seeds part II

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The garden in June

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First salad from the garden

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Apple seeds

Eily made himself a patio. Here he sits, overlooking his best friend's yard, eating an apple and saving the seeds to plant in his garden.


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seed saving

seeds collected in Larry's woods - blue cohosh, orange-fruited horse gentian, wild leek, red oak acorns, american beech, alternate leaf dogwwod, running strawberry bush, and jack-in-the-pulpit - being cleaned, sorted, and dried.

october days

the weather today was lovely and mild - even though rain was expected - but we are still managing to think about the coming cold.

Eily snipping stalks from the thyme patch.

preserving celery and white beans
and trying out the winter coat. i found it at the thrift store and discovered it had a few rips along the seams where the polyester stuffing was coming out (like that's gonna keep a kid warm). so i fortified it by adding alomst 100g of carded wool and now it's divinely poofy and warm.

Actually Spring

after a little taste of summer, it's spring again. i found a way to sew some more wool appliques and Eily found his way to the strawberry patch. it's the first time we've had enough for snacking from the native groundcover plants crawling across the front lawn. another thing to miss....or savour as a good memory of york street.

(i couldn't get him into the patch last year; now i can't pull him out. we're going picking at the CSA farm tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.)

The lettuce they brought was enormous...grown in their cold frames from seedlings this year. And this is my short little mizuna, which I'm still terribly proud of, now that I've confirmed what it is.

My parents came yesterday, and brought fresh asparagus, heads of red lettuce, and this vest which I made my mom for her birthday. It's long - reaching mid-thigh - and I had to add a couple more pieces to it to make it hang a bit better. The button is also a new addition.

This is what our garden was making while I was gone for the weekend for Jane's birthday. The peas loved the rain. I loved the fact that I was never caught in it while walking in High Park.

Eily and the one lonely asparagus from our garden. Where have all the others gone?