So it is that time of year again... time to rid the balcony of last year's sad and dead plant remnants and bring in the new! So the di...

On the weekend, we headed out to the country, the Westham Island Herb Farm to be exact, to check out their 7th annual “A Day at the Farm”...

After waiting for what seems like forever, one red tomato on our little plant was finally ready to be picked. And now the waiting game for...

Spotted yesterday... a wee green tomato (well, two actually) finally making their appearance on our tomato plant. At the rate we are going...

After many months with a very sad looking and neglected balcony, we decided to bring in some green again. Last year's plants all died ...

After weeks and weeks of waiting, I am happy to report that our little patio garden has successfully grown some edible delights.... finally!...

Woohoo! Upon watering my little garden this morning, there are signs of life! We have three tomatoes on our little plant so far... hopefully...

The pond at Van Dusen Botanical Garden is wall to wall lilly pads... it almost feels like you can walk across them (but, please don't t...

Ok, after much delay, I am finally uploading the photos of our teeny summer patio garden. This year we have a tomato plant, rosemary, chives...

Roger and I visited one of my favourite places in Vancouver over the weekend - the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden , an authentic representat...

Since we have been working on the nursery and our office reno these past couple of months (pics to come soon, btw), the patio garden has bec...

The hot summer months have been great for our tomato plant. I started out with super low expectations, but we have been enjoying a dozen of ...

Finally! After months (and what felt like years) of waiting, some of our tomatoes are ready to eat. This one is #3, #1 and 2 have already be...

While watering my tomato plant yesterday, I was excited to see that one of the little green fellas is starting to ripen... I lifted up the l...

A couple of months ago, we planted a pumpkin seed in a pot, which did fine until I had tried to transplant it to a proper garden plot - my t...

While I was watering the tomato plant on our balcony/patio garden the other day, I took a closer look underneath some of the leaves and was ...

So one of the garden-ey things I am trying to grow from seed is basil. I have had little success in the past and I think it's due to my ...

It has been a couple of weeks since I have had a garden update on our small patio garden. The lettuce greens are now almost ready to pick fo...

A little update today on our wee balcony garden. We have moved Mr. Pumpkin plant to a proper plot at mom's, so he is now living in a pro...

This year we decided to make use of our small balcony space and plant a garden. We planted lettuce, herbs (dill, oregano, chives and tarrago...