Bimble Garden - No Dig Gardening

12/07/2023

While on a long road to recovery it’s great to receive ‘The Whole Seed Catalog’ for 2024 from Rare Seeds to cheer up the day ………. and a few weeks to come 👍

04/25/2022

Results of our marathon garlic planting last fall 🧄

The 'duvet of straw' protecting the 2,400 cloves is slowly being removed to reveal one of our favourite spring crops.

Can you guess how many harvests you can get from just one plant ?

04/22/2022

Almost ready to start transplanting the first veggies of the season, started from seed just a few weeks ago.

Kale, onions, celery root, gai-lan, cabbage, broccoli, broccolini peas, snow peas and lettuce will all be ready in just 10 days to plant out in our ‘no dig’ garden beds.

03/23/2022

' A Greener Future' - Moving Towards Living In a Waste Free Community and Why it Matters '

Join DIG (Durham Integrated Growers) virtual table talk on: Wednesday 20th April @ 7:00pm

Bimble Garden is a member of Durham Integrated Growers 🌱

See below to register 👇

Join us virtually on Apr 20th where Rochelle will discuss her documentary Shoreline, ways to move towards living zero waste free.

Shoreline is available to view here
https://www.agreenerfuture.ca/shoreline

Register by email: [email protected]

Nourish & Develop

03/15/2022

Our March Newsletter is now out

Greetings from our Farm Garden, it's great to get underway with some sowing & growing.

Find out what seeds we are starting in March for the garden.
Our harvest shares are now available to order, with some exciting new additions and we reveal this year's charity campaign called 'Sunflowers of Support' .

02/22/2022

Seedy Saturdays & Sundays are back for 2022

We grow heirloom varieties on our 'No dig' farm garden in Ashburn, Whitby and we are a member of Seeds of Diversity in Canada, promoting seed saving, sowing ecologically producing seeds for growing veggies, food crop bio-diversity, protecting pollinators and promoting local seed libraries

Check out the full list of this years events 👇

As March approaches, more and more and events are popping up. Like 2021, they are different from in ‘normal’ years, but we feel confident they will carry the spirit of what these events are all about - seeds.

Read more about what to expect and what we’ve been doing to support them: https://seeds.ca/d/?t=0028e8a400004295-a744732

02/22/2022

Forks up for Canadian Agriculture 🍴

Raise a fork to the food we love and the people who produce it and celebrate Canadian Agriculture Day. Let everyone know how you feel about locally produced food on your fork

12/12/2021

Really loved my greenhouse 😏

Yesterday's severe winds turned the greenhouse into a pile of twisted metal.

📸. After & Before

11/06/2021

The Shadow Garlic Superhero 😎

It took 4 days to plant next years garlic crop by hand this week, all in nice straight lines.

Just a duvet of straw to put on top before the weather changes in the next couple of weeks

10/17/2021

My favourite heirloom seeds saved just for growing next year 🌱

10/05/2021

🧄 It's almost time to start planting our hard neck garlic from this years no-dig harvest for next summer. We are aiming for 2,000 cloves that will eventually grow into individual bulbs.

How many do you think we will have to plant after cracking ? 🧄

09/13/2021

It's a bumper 🍏 🍎 Harvest

Friends and family gave a hand to bring in the first apple harvest of the season this weekend.

09/09/2021

Our farm garden took a bit of battering from the storm ⚡️🌧 💨

Sunflower stems were broken or bent over, though the birds and bees don't mind this and our okra has been blown down.

08/13/2021

Sunflowers on our farm garden adds a little more joy for the bees.

08/08/2021

If we could just get a nice stretch of sun all the large firmly green fruits on my tomato vines could start to ripen up ☀️☀️☀️

07/30/2021

Our very first harvest of a delicious rare and unique heirloom okra from the Southern US state of Alabama, grown from seed.

This variety has fat, red-tinged 4" pods that are great fried or in my favourite gumbo soup or stew recipe.

We will be saving most of the seeds to grow a bigger crop next year to share with you.

07/26/2021

Our Carolina Reaper Pepper plants are growing our new, un-named hot sauce. 🌶 😬

The 5th in our collection will becoming this fall, what should we call it?

07/15/2021

A trug full of eggplants 🍆🍆
First summer harvest of organic heirloom 'Spanish Listada De Gandia & Black Beauty'.
What do you make with eggplants ???