Strawberry fields forever

Gelli print of a laser print of my mothers concert ticket for the Beatles in Vancouver in 1964. I've been experimenting with Gelli printing and acrylics, this was my first somewhat of a successful transfer.

It is Mother's Day. I spent the morning digging out the grass under our apple tree and planted 10 crowns of Strawberries - Everbearing Hecker. Around the apple tree I seeded Sonota Cosmos, and against the window some sugar snap peas. I filled a planter with Bijou and Patio sweet peas, and indoors I seeded a basil pot with Queen Siam, Holy Basil and Sweet Basil. While digging, I found an old toy Sheriff Hot Wheels car that must have been lost and buried years ago when the kids were younger... it made me smile. I'm certainly feeling this transition to a new phase of life – my first Mother's Day without a living mother and the youngest nearly a teen. I'm reading "What do I want to be when they grow up" by Karen Johnson and pondering a few ideas.

Ink sketches of seedling of onion, celeriac, herbs, peppers and ground cherries

Garden sketch journal

I really should have just published this in March when I uploaded the sketch. I don't know where April went, but now we have hit manic May for gardening, so I would really like to start keeping an online record of the gardening I am doing. My general

Close up of onion seedlings poking up some half bent and one with soil and seed shell on its top.

The onions are up! Early March

We sprung the clocks forward an hour early this morning. I woke up to a beautiful spring like day, the sun was shining, the grass was brown with puddles, it really felt like a March. I thought, maybe, I would do a Woman’s day run. Well running against the

Stained glass of orange/yellow and red flowers with green leaves. Sun is shining though and there are cracks in the glass.

Welcome

So is this really going to be a gardening blog? I'm not sure yet. An interest in plants and gardening is a thread that runs through my whole life, though. It is that time of year when I'm going through my seeds and making plans for the spring.

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Garden sketch journal

The onions are up! Early March

Welcome