Boggy Acres
63 crowes lane A1k 1H5 Torbay, NL, Canada

Planting my parsnips Clearing weeds, spreading compost, laying ground cover, sowing seeds.

Some photos from around the garden.

constructing a water Cloche using 6MIL vapour barrier and a heat sealer

WANTED used plastic cell packs and pots. This time of year many of us buy our vegetable and flower transplants and they usually come in plastic pots or cell packs. These packs usually go in the garbage after a single use. I try and avoid using single use plastic wherever possible, but there is no denying that these pots and cell packs are very useful in a retail setting. So when I grow plants for sale I often use these containers. In an effort to reduce my use of new containe...rs I am putting a call out to any gardeners to bring me their used containers. As an incentive I am offering a strawberry plants with every 10 intact containers you bring me (while quantities last). Fire me a message and we can arrange a mutually convenient time to drop off your pots and pick up your strawberry plants(s)

Red Head (Red Russian) kale. Red Head Kale is well adapted to cold climates and is well suited to Newfoundland weather Sown early in the spring it can be harvested as baby kale. It can then be thinned to produce regular sized kale. After being overwintered mature kale plants will produce kale floretes, flower buds with tender leaves and stems.

Today's harvest The last of the overwintered leeks, some kale shoots and mixed Asian greens.

Busy in the orchard today. Cleaning up some of the pin cherry, dogberry and fir that are trying to reclaim this clearing. Most of them have been cut and run through the chipper before being recycled as the path that runs through the orchard. A select few dogberry trees have become part of my experiment on grafting pears onto dogberry root stock. I am trying European pear, Asian pear, honey sweet, and shipova on dogberry and chuckley pear stock. I used the bark grafting method as this is the one I have most success with and it works well on oversized root stock.