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Montréal. Canadian hardiness zone 6a (~USDA zone 5b).
Grow and share food.
Montréal. Canadian hardiness zone 6a (~USDA zone 5b).
This is my third year with my cherry tree and second with my apricot tree. This year they both flowered for the first time and have set fruit! Yay for both surviving the Montreal winter in pots! 🌱#gardening
May 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is my third year with my cherry tree and second with my apricot tree. This year they both flowered for the first time and have set fruit! Yay for both surviving the Montreal winter in pots! 🌱#gardening
Nowruz Mobarak! It's officially spring and the start on a New Year! May it be filled with life, hope and community. 🌱🙏🏻🫂
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March 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Nowruz Mobarak! It's officially spring and the start on a New Year! May it be filled with life, hope and community. 🌱🙏🏻🫂
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March 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
LOL. This severe weather alert!😆 I guess this means Tuesday is garden time/maple tapping time! #gardening 🌱
March 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
LOL. This severe weather alert!😆 I guess this means Tuesday is garden time/maple tapping time! #gardening 🌱
Pepper lovers, what peppers are you trying in your garden this year? I am starting: aji charapita, sweet banana, dragon roll, yellow biquinto, corno di toro, pasillia bajio and capsicum flexuosum (super cold hardy variety). 🌱 #gardening #peppers #urbangarden 🍽
February 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Pepper lovers, what peppers are you trying in your garden this year? I am starting: aji charapita, sweet banana, dragon roll, yellow biquinto, corno di toro, pasillia bajio and capsicum flexuosum (super cold hardy variety). 🌱 #gardening #peppers #urbangarden 🍽
Gardeners from all around the northern hemisphere are sharing photos of snow drops and spring buds. Meanwhile in the great white north—yes that is my back garden door half covered with snow. I had to climb the fence from the alley and roll across the yard to dig it out! 🌱 #canadagardens #gardening
February 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Gardeners from all around the northern hemisphere are sharing photos of snow drops and spring buds. Meanwhile in the great white north—yes that is my back garden door half covered with snow. I had to climb the fence from the alley and roll across the yard to dig it out! 🌱 #canadagardens #gardening
This is what it looks like for me (I am located in Canada).
February 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is what it looks like for me (I am located in Canada).
Does anyone else tap their own trees in the city or suburbia? Throwback of our sugar maple spring of 2023 (we didn't tap last year because it was too warm too early and I wasn't sure when to start it). I can't wait for this year. 🌱🍁 #gardening #permaculture #spring
February 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Does anyone else tap their own trees in the city or suburbia? Throwback of our sugar maple spring of 2023 (we didn't tap last year because it was too warm too early and I wasn't sure when to start it). I can't wait for this year. 🌱🍁 #gardening #permaculture #spring
Tariffs are paused for 30 days. Start those gardens anyways folks. I don't think this is over. #gardening #canadianpoli #Canadian 🌱
February 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Tariffs are paused for 30 days. Start those gardens anyways folks. I don't think this is over. #gardening #canadianpoli #Canadian 🌱
I have a banana plant in the corner of my living room, and whenever the winter blues start to get me, I just sit and stare at it a while and it perks me up. What are your secrets for fighting the winter blues? ❄️🌬🌱🥰 #gardening #winter
February 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I have a banana plant in the corner of my living room, and whenever the winter blues start to get me, I just sit and stare at it a while and it perks me up. What are your secrets for fighting the winter blues? ❄️🌬🌱🥰 #gardening #winter
In the deep of Canadian winter, just on the other side of a brick wall from the swirling morning snow and frigid January winds, citrus blooms peek from under a veil of green! I love my indoor winter garden: it sure helps keep the winter blues at bay! 🌱
January 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In the deep of Canadian winter, just on the other side of a brick wall from the swirling morning snow and frigid January winds, citrus blooms peek from under a veil of green! I love my indoor winter garden: it sure helps keep the winter blues at bay! 🌱
As beautiful as this dandelion is in my garden on New Years Eve, this is not normal for Montreal. Though it seems to be the new normal, because every year I am surprised by something growing or staying green or surviving that shouldn't... 🌱
December 31, 2024 at 5:55 PM
As beautiful as this dandelion is in my garden on New Years Eve, this is not normal for Montreal. Though it seems to be the new normal, because every year I am surprised by something growing or staying green or surviving that shouldn't... 🌱
My Christmas gift! My meyer lemon has blossom buds on it! The first time for any of my citrus. So very exciting for me.
December 26, 2024 at 12:08 AM
My Christmas gift! My meyer lemon has blossom buds on it! The first time for any of my citrus. So very exciting for me.
Chestnut gnocchi. Worked out wonderfully! 🍽🌰
December 24, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Chestnut gnocchi. Worked out wonderfully! 🍽🌰
Workshopping a chestnut gnocchi recipe to go with salmon for Christmas Eve. Fingers crossed it works out!What does everyone who celebrates make for Christmas Eve? 🍽
December 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Workshopping a chestnut gnocchi recipe to go with salmon for Christmas Eve. Fingers crossed it works out!What does everyone who celebrates make for Christmas Eve? 🍽
Yesterday we celebrated Yalda, and the triumph of the sun over darkness. The days will begin to lengthen now, and my fig cuttings that I am rooting are reaching for the morning sun! Shab-e Yalda Mobarak! 🌱☀️🍉
December 21, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Yesterday we celebrated Yalda, and the triumph of the sun over darkness. The days will begin to lengthen now, and my fig cuttings that I am rooting are reaching for the morning sun! Shab-e Yalda Mobarak! 🌱☀️🍉
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni. Her poem «Allowables» changed something in my understanding of the world and my place in it. It's the kind of poem that could change the world, if we allow it to.
December 11, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Rest in power Nikki Giovanni. Her poem «Allowables» changed something in my understanding of the world and my place in it. It's the kind of poem that could change the world, if we allow it to.
Here is one of mine!
December 2, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Here is one of mine!
Bringing pepper plants in for the winter and then leaving them alone for a few days reminds me just how much heavy lifting predatory insects, trap crops and weather does to keep my garden relatively pest free. Never saw an aphid on them outside. 🌱
December 2, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Bringing pepper plants in for the winter and then leaving them alone for a few days reminds me just how much heavy lifting predatory insects, trap crops and weather does to keep my garden relatively pest free. Never saw an aphid on them outside. 🌱
Can anyone ID this bug on my potted lemon (indoors atm)? I am thinking springtail but slightly worried it's thrips. Only saw one, and it didn't jump. Just dealt/am dealing with citrus mites that came in with a new plant and spread to all my citrus. 2 of my citrus dropped all their leaves. Any tips?
November 29, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Can anyone ID this bug on my potted lemon (indoors atm)? I am thinking springtail but slightly worried it's thrips. Only saw one, and it didn't jump. Just dealt/am dealing with citrus mites that came in with a new plant and spread to all my citrus. 2 of my citrus dropped all their leaves. Any tips?
Not a link but from my cookbook.
November 24, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Not a link but from my cookbook.
Has anybody tried bringing a spruce tree in for a few weeks during the winter? The kids want a living Christmas tree and I bought this Alberta spruce in the spring, but I am worried about stressing it out by bringing it in to warm temperatures for a month and then back out in January. Thoughts?
November 20, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Has anybody tried bringing a spruce tree in for a few weeks during the winter? The kids want a living Christmas tree and I bought this Alberta spruce in the spring, but I am worried about stressing it out by bringing it in to warm temperatures for a month and then back out in January. Thoughts?
🍄📷🌱 First winecap mushroom from my garden bed! Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner!
October 8, 2023 at 1:44 PM
🍄📷🌱 First winecap mushroom from my garden bed! Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner!
I had leftover pumpkin seed flour from yesterday's cake so I made this chestnut and pumpkin seed yeast cake. The rise was good and eggs provided structure. 🌰🍽🌳
October 2, 2023 at 5:29 PM
I had leftover pumpkin seed flour from yesterday's cake so I made this chestnut and pumpkin seed yeast cake. The rise was good and eggs provided structure. 🌰🍽🌳