DUGS Garden

​The garden we adopted after another gardener abandoned it is doing really well. And so are our main gardens - we had more than enough new potatoes for a lovely dinner party last evening. 

The Good, The Bad, and the Trolley

​Whitehorse has a trolley that runs a few times in the summer. It used to run more often and farther, but then it didn’t run it all for a few years. So when I saw they were doing a fundraiser titled as above, I said that looks like a great date night. And it was!

Beautiful Whitehorse Days

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Atlin

​Birthdays, sunshine and cool breezes. That was this weekend in Atlin.

Community Garden Mentor Bed

​We’ve been members of the downtown urban Garden Society since last year. We really enjoy going over and puttering in our allotment. It seems like every year there are some garden beds where there’s nothing happening for what ever reason. We got permission a couple of days ago to take over and renovate one of those garden beds. We’ve had an amazing amount of rain in the last few days so it seemed like the perfect time to get some of those weeds that would otherwise be baked into the soil. 

There are some volunteer plants, including Icelandic, Poppy, Johnny jump ups, and red aurach. I saved what I could while I was digging over the plot. It was a good thing that I did dig it over because there was a tree in it. Seems like gardeners have been cutting it off, but not digging it up. The poplar trees are really successful here, and if you don’t get on them when they’re little, it’s almost impossible to get rid of them.

After a couple of hours, I had dug it over, weeded it, top dressed it with compost and was ready to plant. 

People had to put leftover seeds in the shed. We used up somebody’s onion set, three or four different kinds of potatoes, carrots, lettuce, two or three different kinds of beets, mesculin mix, and some Swiss Chard. 

Pruning!

​This past winter was absolutely frigid. Even long, well established shrubs, and perennials had a hard time.

This American lilac with a beautiful blushing pinkish purple flower had been at the house as long as we owned it and probably long before. This past winter was a hard one for it as you can see from the amount that we pruned out that was dead. 

Hidden Lakes Walk

​The dog has been so good this weekend so I took her for a long walk around the hidden lakes trails. So hard! 

Now Scapa and I are relaxing on the couch.