Potager Pics

Potager Pics

About Tanja

Welcome to my 'other' sustainable kitchen gardening blog.

Some of you may already know me from my main blog The Nitty Gritty Potager. That blog deals with more of the nitty gritty organic gardening details ... what to do, plus when and how to do it.

This blog is a just a titch lighter, a shorter read, though no less informative. I hope that you follow both and enjoy them both. 

This is me, with Little Lilah Loo... checking out my flip flop tanned toes.

About me...

I'm Tanja and I live on the east side of Vancouver Island, with my husband of 30 years, two sweet and lazy English Mastiffs, Ruby Tuesday and Penelope, plus two rescued kitties, Beaner and Lizzie.

We all live happily on 1.1 acres on the outskirts of a small city. Not rural, but not quite suburban either, somewhere in between, kinda like a country-style 'burb ; )

The gardening here is pretty fantastic, a Zone 7 gardening area with mild and wet winters followed by dry, temperate summers.

Growing flowers with edibles... companion planting. 

I LOVE to grow, and I especially love to grow pretty looking kitchen gardens.

In my raised garden beds, I grow whatever the family wants to eat, plus extra to share, and I like to experiment with growing new things, too. You never know when you might stumble upon a new favourite thing!

Heirloom tomatoes are my absolute favourites though, all colours, shapes and sizes. I have been crazy about them ever since I grew Purple Prince for the first time, over 20 years ago. It blew me away with both flavour and vigour, and there was no turning back after that.

Borage in the garden brings in the bees! 

Living The Potager Life is all about growing food in the old cottage style, using poly-culture practises.

Poly-culture is just a fancy schmancy way of saying that I create diversity in the garden by planting a variety of flowers and herbs along with the edibles, for a healthy, happy, bee-buzzing organic food garden.

The herb bed in spring

As a passionate, organic food grower, I not only grow our own food, but also advocate and teach kitchen gardening. I find the Urban Homesteading movement to be one of the very best things to have happened to the world in decades!

It excites me to know that we are slowly but surely getting rid of lawns and replacing them with back (or front) yard gardens, mini orchards, and chicken coops!


My flip flop feet 

This is me, in the middle of the picture, in the middle of my kitchen garden,
picking carrots with a couple of my most favourite little garden visitors. 

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