I’m visiting Vancouver for the next five days, after which Jessica and I will be temporarily moving out of our home. It is possible that this blog may lie dormant for the next week or so, but I promise I’ll be posting again in early July, at the very latest.
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- June 24, 2011 – 11:13 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- June 23, 2011 – 11:18 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Borage starts blooming/ It takes up way too much space/ Next year I’ll plant more
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- June 22, 2011 – 8:58 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- June 20, 2011 – 10:05 pm
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An old variety, Tall Telephone peas are tremendously satisfying to grow. Aside from the inconvenience of having to engineer a structure at least ten feet tall for them to climb up, and the minor difficulties involved in picking peas that grow so far off the ground, they are tolerant, beautiful, and highly productive .
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- June 19, 2011 – 10:41 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
One way to put land back into crops, pictured in-progress at right: Mound some turf and weeds, stripped from adjacent beds, atop some undisturbed, still-growing turf and weeds. Add a thin layer of composted manure (in this case, about half a wheelbarrow over the 33-feet long by 3-feet wide bed). Cover the mound with newsprint, [...]
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- June 16, 2011 – 9:21 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Of course they still have leaves, but this sort of pea has been bred to have unusually long tendrils, with which they hold themselves and their neighbours up off the ground. As they are much shorter than most pea varieties, I generally grow these sorts of pas without much in the way of stakes or [...]
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- June 15, 2011 – 9:24 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- June 14, 2011 – 9:40 pm
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- June 13, 2011 – 9:36 pm
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Pictured at right is the slow motion struggle currently occurring in section 1B between chinese cabbage and borage. I expect salvation will come for the borage when the chinese cabbage is chopped down to meet a grisly end in the wok. It doesn’t yet know this will happen, and thinks it is winning.
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- June 12, 2011 – 7:21 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
The field we are slowly turning back into a farm is flat, and it can be difficult to take photos that show a broad overview of our work. One day I may start using a tall ladder for this purpose. Aside from our two small mountains of stripped turf, and a few wobbly lawn chairs, [...]
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- June 11, 2011 – 7:20 pm
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- June 10, 2011 – 10:06 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Dill is the greatest herb of them all, and my life is enriched far beyond measure by it’s fragrant green glory. I harvested the first little handful today, carefully snipping one leaf off each little plant. In the kitchen, the cut dill entered into culinary matrimony with some potatoes, though I won’t divulge further intimate [...]
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- June 9, 2011 – 9:38 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- June 6, 2011 – 10:38 pm
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I’m a pretty big fan of this blog, and was looking at some of the things I have posted recently, and realized to my horror that my posts on June 1st and June 4th were very repetitive. I have been known to repeat myself. I apoligize. I have been known to repeat myself. I just [...]
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- June 5, 2011 – 7:17 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Pictured at right is this year’s planting of barley. Each year since 2006 I have increased the amount of garden space dedicated to this crop. While I am still planting a relatively small area, about thirty square feet this year, in a couple of years I expect to be growing considerably more, for use as [...]
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- June 4, 2011 – 10:43 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
I have never seen oyster mushrooms in such great abundance . While out for a brief jog (I have a photo shoot for GQ coming up) I counted more than twenty trees covered in delicious, delicious oysters. I suppose our exceptionally moist, cool spring has encouraged them to fruit lustily. Jessica and I made a [...]
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Tagged: Fungi
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- June 2, 2011 – 5:51 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
I’ve been growing barley every year since 2006. Each year I increase the area I devote to it by one or two square feet. I’m working toward producing a large enough quantity of it to use it as food, rather than just growing enough to saving and distribute it’s seed. For the first couple of [...]
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- June 1, 2011 – 7:59 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk