Tag Archives: seasons

Bring on spring! And fiddleheads!

Posted on May 6, 2017 by bloomingreverend

Yes, I know it’s raining. Still, spring is the best. From where I’m sitting I can see the beautiful white blossoms on my neighbour’s trees and the buds of my backyard lilac bush. Everything is lush and green–even my groceries! … Continue reading →

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Jesus kale and its eight million seeds

Posted on August 3, 2016 by bloomingreverend

Last year I grew two garden boxes of kale: one was Curly Blue Scotch and the other was Red Russian. Everyone I knew, including my friends at the local fresh food bank, received big bouquets of it (whether they wanted it … Continue reading →

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Is it good luck to plant seeds while wearing your bathrobe?

Posted on March 18, 2016 by bloomingreverend

I have heard that you can ensure greater garden success by planting during certain phases of the moon (who knows? I can’t say I’ve tried it). This morning, however, when I was out in the early morning sunshine, I wondered what … Continue reading →

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Isn’t “winter garden” an oxymoron?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by bloomingreverend

This year for the first time ever I managed to stretch my growing season into October and I had bok choi and lettuce to harvest along with a few onions and some very persistent kale. Now, of course, I am not in the … Continue reading →

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I am on my way to becoming a medieval monk

Posted on September 8, 2014 by bloomingreverend

Remember that mud-pit of a backyard from last summer? The transformation is finally finished! (Well, it’s mostly finished anyway. Gardens are too full of life and growth and change to ever be really “finished”.) At long last my little corner … Continue reading →

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St. Cuthbert’s Way Day 7: I’ve got rhythm

Posted on May 5, 2014 by bloomingreverend

For everything there is a season: a time for sun and a time for rain, a time for solitude and a time for community, a time for walking and a time for falling down…. Today I was ready to be … Continue reading →

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I have five hundred new friends but they are rather quiet. And wiggly.

Posted on March 3, 2014 by bloomingreverend

Well, I haven’t actually counted, but I am told there are about five hundred in a half pound of worms. They are Red Wigglers and they are small and squirmy. I bought them on the weekend. My love of worms … Continue reading →

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Inconvenient, breathtaking beauty

Posted on January 6, 2014 by bloomingreverend

The Advent and Christmas seasons are an intense time for clergy. Here in Ontario, December also brought severe winter weather, difficult travel and widespread power outages. Still, there were incredible moments in which God’s beauty took my breath away. Blessed … Continue reading →

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If you got a Christmas present you don’t really like, read this.

Posted on December 30, 2013 by bloomingreverend

Some years ago for Christmas I received a gardening book. Normally, that kind of a gift is perfect since I love books and I love gardens. But this book seemed, well, not quite my thing. “Seed sowing and saving” it … Continue reading →

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Convenient beauty on Trafalgar Road

Posted on September 26, 2013 by bloomingreverend

South Oakville is a beautiful place. But the neighbourhood wouldn’t be the nearly as beautiful without Bong’s Variety. The corner store is surrounded on every side by loveliness. Some of the homes there are over a hundred years old and … Continue reading →

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