Country Living in a Cariboo Valley Country Living In a Cariboo Valley

  For all you Mothers out there, enjoy your day! Hope you are spoiled today!

This year, we are going to concentrate more on the perennial vegetable beds here and leave the bottom part of the main garden in green manure. We’re not exactly sure about what will happen with Graham’s work plans later this Summer and Fall. Also, we still have a lot of home canned food ...

       

Amanda has been reading our updates for quite awhile now – as a beginning gardener, she asks great questions that I try to answer in the Comments section. The other day, I wrote about Starting Seeds Indoors Under Lights. Amanda left a comment and I thought I should write up a post with more in...

         

  Starting seeds is always a sure sign that Spring is either here or it’s right around the corner. This year I will be doing a lot of direct seeding right into the garden, as the garden soil is dry already. Seems odd for so early in the year, but I will go with... Read More

I have tried so many times over the last six years to get some good photos of the Sandhill Cranes that come to the Valley each Spring. It is so hard to get some good shots. The other day, I tried again. These are the best photos I have taken so far. (No, I don’t... Read More

               

Remember all that garlic I harvested last year? We had hundreds of heads and while we have eaten a lot of them (we love Garlic!), we still have lots left. We didn’t bring any with us down south because I wasn’t sure they would let us take them over the border. Even if we had... Read More

The soil here is quite dry already, which is a bit surprising considering we are still in early Spring. In “normal” years the gardens can’t be tilled until at least the first weekend in May and that might be pushing it a bit. The other day when we were down at the barn, cleaning ou...