The jalapeno crop is coming along well. My absolute fave hot pepper. 😊

We’ve reached peak eggplant season with enough tender fruits for weekly batches of eggplant parmigiana. 😋

The Little Fingers eggplants are in peak season!

This veggie garden bed looks more flowers than food! But there are four cucumber plants and loads of herbs in it too. 🙃

Late July is peak nasturtium season! 😍

My first ‘Niki Jabbour’ daylily flower of the year! Grateful to be the namesake of this pretty perennial, bred by Allan Banks. 😊

My family is obsessed with Armenian cucumbers and while technically they’re a type of muskmelon, they look and taste like cukes. In my new video I share tips from my 20+ years of growing them. youtu.be/lFA68tCbE2c?...

How to Grow Armenian Cucumbers: The Secrets to Huge Harvests

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Cupcake cosmos blooms. So pretty and bee-friendly. 🐝

Got funny shaped cucumbers? This is usually caused by incomplete pollination or extreme heat. Learn more about curling cukes here: savvygardening.com/cucumbers-cu...

Started harvesting the fingerling and purple potatoes. 😋

The first Green Lightning zucchini, an award-winning variety that goes from seed to harvest in about 45 days - you’ve still got time to plant! Loved the mildly sweet flavour and dense texture. Very good. Lots more to come. 😋

Bee party! I’ve never seen more bees in a single poppy flower!

3 days after hand pollinating this Armenian cucumber (botanically a musk melon) flower, it’s starting to size up!

Was thrilling to see a massive sunfish in the waters off Chester (Nova Scotia) this evening!

Very sorry to hear this and wishing all the best to my former co-workers at News 95.7. I hosted The Weekend Gardener there for 15 years and have so many wonderful memories. ❤️

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First nasturtium of the year. A beauty!

I’m pretty sure this is the biggest peony I’ve ever seen (and grown!).

Credit to Hope Blooms Halifax — try and head out to their farmers markets to get produce, bread for $1-2 #NovaScotia Thursdays, 4–7pm July–August 2346 Brunswick Street, Halifax Hope Blooms’ 10,000 square foot urban farm, grows more than 4,000 pounds of produce each year

An early summer sweet treat: the alpine strawberries I grew from seed. 🍓

We’re about a month away from the earliest garden tomatoes but I’m already anticipating the harvest! 😋

Happy solstice! After a cool slow spring, the greenhouse is filling in nicely. Once the lettuces are all picked, I’ll plant more Armenian cucumbers for late summer. 😊

First poppy and it’s a beauty!!

Amazing Grey is my absolute favourite poppy to grow. 😍

In mid-June my garden smells like peonies 😊

If I could just grow one dahlia, it would be Cafe au Lait. 😍

The Castle Gordon Walled Garden in Scotland at peak poppy power!

Growing tomatillos? 5 mistakes that that stop tomatillo plants from setting fruit - savvygardening.com/tomatillo-pl...

Nasturtiums are my absolute favourite flower for the veggie garden. 😊

I think frilly pansies are my favourites. 😍

Big thanks to the awesome folks at Global News Halifax for the fun chat! Being a gardener means I get to learn new things every day whether from working in my own garden or talking to fellow gardening enthusiasts. 😊🌱 Check out the segment here: globalnews.ca/video/118942...

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