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My Gardening Journey - Part 1

5/20/2012

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"If you ate today, thank a farmer." 

Growing up in the countryside of Northern BC, every year we had a bountiful garden.  It wasn't until I moved to the city that I truly appreciated the taste of peas from a pod, tomatoes from the vine and a stained face from raspberries and saskatoons.  I detested eating baseball bat sized zucchini and would avoid weeding at all costs.  Now I recognize how incredibly fortunate I was. 

So I was very excited to move to Ottawa and start my own garden.  My first confession is that, despite my upbringing by amazing gardeners, my thumb is not yet green.  However, I believe that with perseverance and enthusiasm, anything is possible!


Our adventure started in March.  We were challenged with limited light in our north facing apartment.  Youtube to the rescue!  We built our own grow lamp system to start the seedling.  This worked amazingly well.
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Our home built grow lamp system
The communal backyard of our two story apartment building was over-run with weeds and neglect.  But it was a green space full of opportunity. 
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Digging through the Weed Jungle! On a beautiful, sunny day, getting dirty was fun!! We found the occasional treasure including a mint plant. Also many insects, snails (uh oh) and earth worms (sign of good soil!)
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It's a lot of work digging through weeds and pulling up roots. We were also warned about dogs urinating through the fence so we left a few plants as a barrier.
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It's starting to look like a garden plot!
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The exciting part of planting! Took a bit of organization to figure out where each plant should go.
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We have a garden!
I'm so excited about our new garden.  Everything in our new garden has some medicinal or nutritional value!  I'll tell you all about this later so stay tuned...

In Wellness,
Dr. Heather
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