http://allsortsacre.ca Permaculture in Practice Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:44:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/07/new-seed-swap-and-buy-website-2/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/07/new-seed-swap-and-buy-website-2/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:06:10 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/07/new-seed-swap-and-buy-website-2/ Last week we recieved an e-mail from our contact form. Now half the time these are just a form of people generated spam, but we do get some good ones too. Anna-Monique send a really good e-mail. She and her family started a website called Seed Living (seedliving.ca). It is a swap, buy site for [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/07/new-seed-swap-and-buy-website-2/feed/ 1 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/03/the-big-dig/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/03/the-big-dig/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:59:31 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/03/the-big-dig/ This past season we have had some successes and some not so successes. One of our not-so-successes has been our nightshades, particularly our tomatoes and potatoes. Our eggplants seem to be okay but we don't have a lot. Much like last year our tomato and potato plants got late blight. This is a nasty "water mold" [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/09/03/the-big-dig/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/27/the-gardens-are-growing/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/27/the-gardens-are-growing/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:12:05 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/27/the-gardens-are-growing/ This time of year is great! It is when the garden is just beginning to express it's full potential. We have eaten our first cucumber as seen on Tim's head. The first squash are really coming along and the lettuce seed forest is almost ready to get seeds from. See and download the full gallery [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/27/the-gardens-are-growing/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/10/pick-an-organic-pepper/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/10/pick-an-organic-pepper/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:35:14 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/10/pick-an-organic-pepper/ This is the first pepper of the season. Incredibly hot and humid weather for the past week along with yesterday's downpour has helped along the peppers. We haven't had much luck with peppers in the past, but hopefully this year will be better. Posted via email from All SortsAcre]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/07/10/pick-an-organic-pepper/feed/ 0 http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/04/10/pruning-time/ http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/04/10/pruning-time/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:42:59 +0000 jennifer http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/04/10/pruning-time/ Today there was a workshop about pruning at St.Ignatiaus Farm in Guelph. Pruning is something that we need to learn more about. Books aren't quite the same as seeing the real thing. Asking an experienced orchardist is very valuable. Seeing a number of good examples of central leader trees was incredibly instructional. Below are examples [...]]]> http://allsortsacre.ca/2010/04/10/pruning-time/feed/ 0