Gardenview Farm
Road 86 West R0J 1H0 Neepawa, MB, Canada

This is me, every day! Thank goodness no one can come into my house these days!

SPRING. I finally caved and started cleaning off my spring bed. I very seldom do any fall cleanup but had deadheaded most of the delphinium and lupins in fall. It has many lupins, pumonaria, peonies, short little early iris, Pasque flower...aka prairie crocus, and painted daisies. Later bloomers include delphinium, fall asters and lilies. Things are so dry so, because I don’t get to mulching as much as I would like, I decided to use chop and drop method. I chopped off th...e dried tops, broke them up, tussled the dried leaves and left them in place as much as possible. I did end up gathering the bigger stems as I realized it would be better use of time to send them through the shredder than trying to chop them up on site. Weeding included some grass along the far edge. Usually I rake everything onto a big tarp to haul to the compost pile. Today, I ended up with less than a wheelbarrow and the dried plant material will help to improve soil and retain moisture. Once the plants actually get some rain they will quickly cover up the less appealing look. See more

OVERWINTERING SUCCESSES After years of struggles my bay leaf laurel is experiencing a growth spurt. I have constantly battled scale insects on it so perhaps I have won that war as it has never done this in spring before. The leaves look very tender and I need to feed to get them to green up a bit more but I am excited by the growth. My rosemary wintered well and has also shown lots of new growth. The lavender on the right of the second picture is looking kind of scraggly but I am just glad it wintered. It is munstead. The third picture shows my topiary lavender, (I think hidcote). It was an impulse buy last year and later I regretted spending $20 on an annual. But, it too wintered, was pushing out some buds but has now begun to battle aphids and is struggling a bit. I have started putting it outside for a few hours a day.

Small fruit plants for sale. - SOLD Fall Gold Raspberries and everbearing red (I don’t know the specific variety). Bundles of 5 for $10 or 10 for $20 These can be mowed down each year and will fruit on new wood. The fruit is sweeter than the traditional raspberry but also later. - SOLD Nanking cherry - bundles of 12 for $10 Spring blooming, summer fruit, good privacy hedge - SOLD. High bush Cranberry - single plant for $5 - Black currant - single plant for $5... - SOLD Rhubarb $5 each See more

My last post wouldn’t let me add video and photos together. Here are a few more photos to add to the previous post.

Hey Hey Hey package #2 of our 6 day #Giveaway is here!!! Included in this package is 1 variegated string of hearts 1 philodendron birkin 1 monstera adonsonii 1 ...rhio tricolor 1 tradescantia nakook Wow is that ever a loaded package!! Requirements for entry are as follows: Simply make a comment on this post adding the hashtags: #ourfarmgreenhouse #grownwithlove tagging @ourfarmgreenhouse and tagging at least one of your friends (u can tag as many of your friends as u please) get this rolling ...

BARB WIRE ART Time to treat yourself to a Valentine. Made with vintage barb wire. Various prices in caption under pictures based on size and complexity. Please message with reference to numbers on pictures. Each item is unique. I can make more but designs may vary.

A nice way to end the year...with 3 flowers and two more to open in 2021. Happy New Year!