Harvest time

There are quite few big tomatoes in the garden that are starting to turn colour – soon ripe for picking! It’s that time of year. It amazes me that these plants – some 6 feet tall – produce from such a tiny seed these beautiful fruits. Yes, I know it is a fruit. I’m stuggling…

A splash of colour

For those of you who live in warmer climates, where the flowers begin to bloom in February, you may not be able to appreciate the joy of seeing colour begin to dot the landscape at this time of the year. Here we are, the people of the great white north celebrating that colour is now…

New life appears

Could it be more appropriate that as we pass the Easter weekend which focuses on the death and resurrection of Jesus, our gardens are emerging from the cold winter of Edmonton to show us that they too are not dead and are coming back to life as the soil warms and the temperatures begin to…