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A small garden and nursery growing garlic and perennials. In the garden we grow garlic and a variety of vegetables and flowers. And we hope you will too.
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At Pottery Road Heirloom Garden we want to make it easy for people to be as connected to their food as possible. In our small-scale nursery we grow perennial plants, shrubs, herbs and flowers for you to transplant into your own garden. Our nursery stock is sold from the farm on special plant sale days and by special order appointment – we focus on perennial edible, medicinal and insectary plants

and trees. Garlic is sold direct by special order with pick up in August. We are a small farm garden working to be part of a big change in our food production systems and encouraging people to grow some of their own food. Our natural approach to w**d and pest management includes systems of composting, mulching, cover cropping and crop rotation to manage the health of our soil and plants. In short, at Pottery Road Heirloom Garden…We Grow Good Food!

09/21/2024

🌼Seeds available in the carport today.
I added Red Orach seeds because many of you were interested in it this spring - it is an easy and enthusiastic edible self-seeder.

09/14/2024

Yes, seeds are available in the carport this weekend during the daytime. See last pic.
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Flower photos to show a few of the flower varieties that seeds were collected from. 🌸
🌱If you are looking for plants feel free to message me. Thanks.

09/11/2024

🌸Seeds are available in carport today.
🌱Last 2 photos show one of the perennial green onions I grow - this one is often called Welsh perennial green bunching onion. Photo shows it after a long thirsty summer. 😜 It gives abundant green onions every year ( a slightly thicker green onion than the Egyptian walking onions). Seed heads available today.
🌰 As well as other perennials, I have a few recently potted Hazelnut shrubs available ( shown in second picture). Great time of year for transplanting. Message me if interested. Thanks

09/09/2024

🌱I have seeds available in the carport this week.
I don’t do seeds the “ normal” way ( I know…when have I ever done anything the normal way 😜). You will notice that some are still in pods or on seed heads - basically you will get a lot more seeds for the cost because I am not spending much time separating and cleaning. 🙂 I have not sealed the bags ir envelopes in case you want to peek in to see what you are getting.
🌸I have also been potting more perennials like lavender, feverfew, purple coneflower, etc. so message me if you are still looking for plants as I will have some available for a couple weeks. Autumn is my favourite time for transplanting! 🌸

07/20/2024

Spending early mornings until early afternoon working in the gardens. Mulching, giving plants drinks of worm or w**d “ tea”.

🌸Photos to show the two colours of Hollyhock for which I will have seeds available in the autumn ( mixed).
🍅 First tomatoes ripening and the bush beans have started as well. Zucchini is in full swing. 😋 What’s ripening in your garden?
☀️I hope you are managing to find ways to enjoy your garden in this heat and that you have lots of delicious homegrown veggies on the go. 🥬

07/17/2024

🧄A reminder to all the garlic-lovers that I didn’t grow garlic this year.🧄
☀️I have to say that I’m not missing harvesting garlic in this heat. 🥵 Instead I’ve been w**ding in the shade, mulching, snacking on jostaberries and raspberries and making “ treats” for the chooks - rye cover crop that I left to grow so they could eat the seeds and I discovered they love grated zucchini mixed with their food. 😜

07/13/2024

💛 Rudbeckia & Echinacea flowers together!
At the beginning of the week I re-mulched the front garden with a homemade mulch mix - woodchips (from a dead tree we had taken down last fall) that had been composting since then with deep litter from the chook coop…and then bags of used coffee grounds mixed in. Plants seem happy with it. 😜
🌼I have large size Echinacea , Rudbeckia & Lavender available today. 🌸

07/10/2024

A photo of 🐝s enjoying the Borage flowers. This is another enthusiastic self-seeder. Flowers are edible and the leaves can be used in a number of ways. A beautiful and useful plant. 💙

🧄A note to let my usual garlic customers know ( or to remind those of you who I have already seen and spoken with) that last year I decided not to grow garlic for market anymore. I am taking steps to simplify “ life on the farm” and this felt like a big one. After about 12 years of growing it, I was ready for a break. 🙂
🧄 There are several other folks growing garlic in the North Okanagan and garlic is usually available from vendors at the Farmers Market as well. Thank you for being a supportive part of my garlic years. 🙂

07/06/2024

Picking, picking, picking…such a delicious time of year. Especially love the golden raspberry. 💛
Also shown is the first tayberry of the season. 😜
Strawberries, blackcurrants, red currants and the Saskatoons are starting to ripen as well ( those are mostly treats for the birds here).
Now to think of some more ways to use the abundance of blackcurrants…thinking about making a blackcurrant vinegar concentrate to use as a refreshing drink.

07/05/2024

I may have a tendency to “ overseed” in my gardens 😜…and it definitely seems to be the case with poppies this year.
🌸Each year I collect loads of my seed heads thinking that I will get around to selling them in the springtime…and each springtime I get busy with potting up plants and other gardeny thing and forget to. The 🐝s are going crazy over the poppies just now. Folks often ask me if I sell potted poppy plants when they see my gardens. I find them a bit tricky to transplant so I don’t sell the plants but I think this autumn I will have little bags of the seed heads available for sale so that folks can “ overseed” them in their own gardens. Sowing seeds in autumn is my favourite way to grow many perennials - I find it much more successful than spring sowing. 🌸

07/04/2024

I have more gallon size Anise Hyssop potted up and available. First photo below ( from last year) shows how it will look when it blooms soon. 🐝s love it.
Also have more large Rudbeckia and lavender potted up and available as well as a few daylilies left - shown below in my garden in bloom now. 🧡this easy plant.
Pm me to order and arrange a pick up time. Thanks 😊

07/03/2024

🌱Started picking my blackcurrants yesterday. Most of them will be put in bags in the freezer to be used in the winter or processed later as I sometimes like to mix them with elderberries once they are ready. I have 3 potted plants available still and I may pot up more as time allows. Pm me to order a shrub so you can grow your own. A fantastic and easy shrub to grow- I also use the leaves in teas and tinctures.
🌸I also have pots of good size Echinacea plants ( purple coneflower) - a beautiful and very useful plant. I use it in tincture making as well. 🌸

07/02/2024

🔥 Herbal friends- if you are wanting to make your own fire cider every year but haven’t started growing your own horseradish yet, I have 5 potted plants left for sale which would produce for you to make next year’s batch. PM me to order one. 🔥

07/01/2024

🌼Taking advantage of the cooler, wetter days to pot up more plants. Getting more gallon size Lavender , Rudbeckia and Anise Hyssop potted up. As well as smaller pots of Feverfew, lavender, catnip, hyssop, golden oregano and more. 🌼
I don’t have the stand out anymore so pm me if you are looking for plants. 🙂

06/29/2024

Some photos from the garden.
🌱Potting up more Golden Oregano, Feverfew & Chives so if you wanted some and didn’t get any feel free to message to get some today. I potted up more large pot Rudbeckia too and may have a few blanket flower soon.
💚Yesterday I spent some time with my compost piles ( main composting area shown below but I have several more around the property). It seems that I can never get enough composting space. 😜 Pondering adding another wooden bay.
🌱I’ll put current plant list 👇 in comments.

06/27/2024

Feverfew. 💚

06/25/2024

Every morning starts with harvesting a big bowl of salad makings to use in dinner prep. 😋

🌸I don’t have the plant stand out anymore but…I do have plants available. Do feel free to message me to arrange a time to see/pick up. Thanks!😊

06/11/2024

Some white flowering pics this morning. First three show Red Osier Dogwood blooms - one of my favourite easy shrubs to grow - and once these flowers turn to berries it is also a favourite of my chooks and the wild birds.
Mock orange shrubs blooming and smelling delightful.
Feverfew bursting into loads of little flowers.
A few of each available in stand today ( along with an assortment of others) or message me if you want to see all the choices. 🙂

06/10/2024

Stand is open today and for a few more days ( after that I will take a little break and then plants will be available by order - it gets too hot to have them in the stand in their pots).
My mock orange shrubs are blooming on the property and the scent is divine! I have a few small potted ones available - easy care, drought-tolerant shrub. My feverfew is blooming and I have more available again in little pots. Still time to get blackcurrant shrubs planted if you want to add an easy fruit to your yard.
🌱I will put the plant list below.👇 PM me if you want to order some for pick up today. Thanks 😊

06/09/2024

Stand is open today. An assortment of everything. If you’ve been wanting to add an easy fruit to your yard, I find blackcurrants simple to grow. There are some available still and some have fruit forming on them. 😋
A few pics - currants on shrubs in stand, lavender about to bloom in my garden ( have lots of plants available in pots). Yarrow blooming, the lamb’s ear I planted last month settling in ( still have some small pots available) and a little wasp nest I found back by a Linden tree ( a few pot sizes of Linden trees available) blown out in the wind.
Feel free to message if you want to arrange a plant pick up today. 🌸

06/08/2024

🌱Stand is open.🌱
Pics below - I have feverfew available again - mine in the garden is just starting to flower. Yarrow just about to flower too. Columbine still going strong. Mock orange first blooms opening now -have some of these shrubs available as well today. Also show - valerian in bloom ( a few babies in stand), Egyptian Walking onion pic in my herb garden ( only one left in stand) and golden oregano with sage in flower in background.

🌸A reminder that even drought-tolerant plants need extra watering through first couple weeks of transplant stress.

06/07/2024

Yes, stand is open. Or message me to arrange plant appointment. 😜
This morning as I give some comfrey “ tea” to some shrubs I am admiring the beauty of edible plants. I 💚 including edible plants in all my gardens. Shown below- Orach and red Orach with chives blossoming. Garden Sage in flower, golden oregano and thyme as ground cover.

06/05/2024

🌸Stand is open🌸
I’ve added some Valerian and borage starts and more Grandpa Ott’s morning glory. I will put plant list below 👇

06/04/2024

I haven’t sold any Valerian plants before but this year I have a few extra pots available- if there is any interest I can put them in the stand today.

06/03/2024

Even though we sometimes have deer on the property, and I have been seeing a lot of evidence of them ( nibbled trees and plants) lately, it was still a surprise to look up from my washing up after dinner to see this fellow out the kitchen window. They don’t usually choose to rest so close to the house.

06/02/2024

🌸Stand open🌸
I have lots of purple coneflower (echinacea) in small and large ( gallon size) pots.
Message me if you want to get some today. Thanks. Pot sizes shown below.

06/01/2024

Who likes “ before” and “after” pics?
Yesterday my husband found a photo that I had taken of one side of the property from 8 years ago ( second photo below) when I had just started my “ hedgerow “ planting, so I just had to go take a photo from the same spot to record the difference. Sometimes…in the work of growing, planting and maintaining it can be easy to forget how far you have come. Even I was surprised to see the old photo. 8 years on you can see the difference ( in first photo below). My suggestion if you want to transform a property- keep on planting! 😜
Third pic shows Amur maple in bloom right now - ❤️ this drought-tolerant tree, as do the 🐝s. Fourth pic shows Red Osier Dogwood- another favourite shrub that I use A Lot on this property- birds love the berries ( as do my chooks) and it grows easily and is drought tolerant.
Stand open today with a little bit of everything. PM me if you want something particular set aside for pick up today. 🙂

05/31/2024

🌱Stand is open🌱
🌼Some photos from last year because I know people like to see what the plants will look like once they flower.🌸 Click the pics to see.
🥧 Rhubarb available today by preorder of bulk orders of 10 lbs.

05/30/2024

🌼Stand is open🌼
Some photos below to show what certain plants will look like once they are flowering.
🌼First 4 pics to show the Rudbeckia colour varieties.
💜 Then English lavender, daylily, yarrow, anise hyssop, and (self-seeding annual) Grandpa Ott morning glory vine.

05/29/2024

Potted up more currant shrubs yesterday (blackcurrant and red ) so I have more available again - at the stand or pm.
Shown below - Goji berry shrub flower (purple). And an unruly Goji berry shrub in next photo.
Picture of part of my “ forager’s garden -with eye-catching golden oregano almost glowing. The newly potted blackcurrants, a hazelnut tree in my yard and a baby potted hazelnut grown from nuts.
All available at stand or pm ( if you want to see all available).Thanks.

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I may have a tendency to “ overseed” in my gardens 😜…and it definitely seems to be the case with poppies this year. 🌸Each year I collect loads of my seed heads thinking that I will get around to selling them in the springtime…and each springtime I get busy with potting up plants and other gardeny thing and forget to. The 🐝s are going crazy over the poppies just now. Folks often ask me if I sell potted poppy plants when they see my gardens. I find them a bit tricky to transplant so I don’t sell the plants but I think this autumn I will have little bags of the seed heads available for sale so that folks can “ overseed” them in their own gardens. Sowing seeds in autumn is my favourite way to grow many perennials - I find it much more successful than spring sowing. 🌸