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teri says:
June 5, 2011 at 5:08 pm (UTC -7)
Hi Christina,
I met you and your husband briefly at the north van save on foods where i saw those amazing bird seed feeders made with syrup and gelatin….john suggested that i ask you directly for the recipe. I would love to make them with my students,
Thank you
Teri
Christina says:
June 13, 2011 at 4:31 pm (UTC -7)
Hi Teri;
If you’d like to make the bird seed feeders you can see a fun how-to slide show on Garden Wise online. Follow this link: http://www.gardenwiseonline.ca/gw/how/2007/11/29/make-star-bird-feeder-slideshow
Good luck!
Christina + John
Kerri says:
January 25, 2012 at 1:56 am (UTC -7)
Hi Christine, it’s your (really old, dating myself here but we’re talking Jordache Jeans days here), neighbour Kerri from tha ‘Ridge… My folks gave me your & John’s lovely book for Christmas & it is FABULOUS, I am a lovin’ it! I share the same kind of approach to gardening and cooking (something in the Ridge water ?!) HGTV here you come…!
I really enjoyed how you’ve woven your edible to garden to creative projects deftly together, with such simple, creative and dirt cheap (pun intended) ideas that anyone can figure out. The gorgeous pix help too. And now, am a fan of your blog too… Nice work, wish you both much success.
Christina says:
January 25, 2012 at 9:17 pm (UTC -7)
Kerri, of course I remember you! The cool, artistic kid next door… so lovely to hear from you. Thanks for your kind words about our work… we certainly try to put our heart and soul into it. If you are ever on the Sunshine Coast, please look us up, drop by the garden and we’ll raise a glass to Jordache days, Maple Ridge and the glory of dirt cheap delight! All the best my dear…… C
Sarah Casley says:
April 28, 2012 at 9:03 am (UTC -7)
Hi John and Christina! Just HAD to say ‘hi’. I was sitting in my car in Qualicum Beach yesterday having lunch and listened to yr interview on CBC w/Mark Forsythe. As soon as I can, I’m heading down to Chapters in Nanaimo to buy both your books! My partner Mike Wolfe and I live on 10 gorgeous acres in Beaver Creek, Port Alberni, nestled up against the Beaufort Mts. We bought the acreage in 1994 from our neighbours who had 15, sold us 10 and kept 5. It was raw land and we spent 3 months summer ’94 building a little 16×20 cedar cabin out of recycled wood (some of the huge rounds we cut into shakes for the roof actually had old barnacles on them as they were orig floating in the Alberni Canal!) Long story short, we spent almost 8 yrs in that cabin living w/alternate power, as we couldn’t afford to build our dream log-home (yet!) Alligator clips attached to the car battery provided 110 watt power for lights, radio, phone, hand-made woodstove (made by Mike) kept us warm, gravity feed and a tiny wall-mounted propane Bosch “demand” water heater gave us water for dishes and a small shower stall in one corner next to our 8×8 handmade log bed (which also doubled as the “living room” …LOL). We also had a gas-powered generator and sola-panel-power for drawing water for irrigation in our veg garden. Mike also built a 30 foot tower w/platform (looked like a giant 4 legged stool) on top of which was a 1000 litre container attached to a hose for our gravity feed. (Unable to use during frosty weather due to the hose freezing! But then we’d either haul from one of our 2 lovely creeks, or power up the generator attached to a pump in the pumphouse. We also had an outhouse w/no door (didn’t need it because our place is so private) ..open to the mt view. Mike always joked about putting a glass eyeball in one of the cedar knot-holes in the outhouse wall..hahaha! We now live in our small but beautiful log-house, (moved in Jan 2002) a work of “love, sweat and tears” which is still ongoing. The foundation, log-structure and metal roof were done by contractors but everything else we did ourselves, from making windows (4 of them Gothic) out of cedar from our property, kitchen cabinets (alder from property), all tiling, plumping, electrical and finishing. Still not complete, but we’ll get there. We call this place “Horse Heaven” …I have 2 horses and over the years we’ve cleared pasture and paddocks for them, fenced it in and used the trees that we felled for various carpentry projects including stuff in log-house, horse barn, hay shed, pumphouse, boiler house, garden shed, wood shed, and latest… a wood-frame 25×16 greenhouse with beautiful cedar 12×3 workbench down the centre (made w/some of the last of our lumber) and sliding glass patio-doors at either end. It is chockablock full of pots and trays of seedlings right now and our big veg garden is gradually starting to look more like spring… rhubarb, raspberries, carrots, peas, garlic, zuc, radish and lettuce all in neat rows. And today we are transplanting onions and brassicas (broc, cauli, cabbage). We plan to grow our 5 different types of tomatoes in grow-bags – keep some in greenhouse along w/the cucs and sweet basil, and grow more tomatoes outside. Have you ever tried Sungold cherry tomatoes? (Westcoast seeds). They are IMHO the best tomatoes you will ever taste and SO prolific you can’t keep up w/harvest! Little bright orange orbs jammed full of tart, viney flavour! Well …I just had to get in touch with you …you sound like our kind of people. When we lived in the cabin, we had SO many craft-projects on the go… from leather goods to carpentry to gardening. No TV. If we wanted to watch the occasional movie, we’d haul our tiny portable TV/VCR out from under the bed and go fire up the genny, pass the extention cord through the window and settle back on the giant bed! Sometimes we’d have to re-start the genny part-way through the movie! Now we live like everyone else on the hydro-grid and whenever there is a power-outage due to windstorm, Mike says “we have less power now than when we had NO power!” (When we lived off-grid in the cabin, we never even KNEW when there was a power-outage in our area! Too funny!) Well, this is long and convoluted (we’ve often thought of writing a book about our experiences), but wanted to say I will be buying both your books. They look wonderful and jam-full of the type of ideas we both enjoy. Keep up the good work and thanks. SARAH
Christina says:
April 29, 2012 at 5:45 am (UTC -7)
Hi Sarah!
Thank you so much for getting in touch. Wow! It sounds like you have an amazing lifestyle. So many wonderful experiences and projects. Keep up the good work : )We will be coming to Nanaimo next week, Friday, May 04 and I will have the event up on our list soon (it’s just been confirmed!) So perhaps we can meet you! Take care and happy growing… C + J
Pat McEwen says:
April 30, 2012 at 1:26 pm (UTC -7)
Hi Christina & John,
Just a quick note to let you know I received a copy of Sow Simple today. Surprise! I didn’t realize I was the winner from BC Almanac radio. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
As a new gardener to Comox (we came from Edmonton) I can really put this book to good use! It is amazing to see the stuff that grows here – last week I discovered trilliums in the back yard under the sword ferns – wow! I could do without the deer eating my tender Japanese maple and tulips, but otherwise it’s been such fun.
Anyway, thanks again….you KNOW I’ll be getting inspiration AND information from this book.
Christina says:
April 30, 2012 at 3:25 pm (UTC -7)
Wonderful! We’re so glad it was you, Pat. We love Comox and wish you the best of luck in your garden. Thanks for phoning in on BC Almanac! C+J
Jim Scott says:
May 2, 2012 at 7:43 am (UTC -7)
Hello,
Saw you on morning news today (good stuff) and have a question. We have a lot of pea seeds left over from our spring planting but they have been treated with innocculant and was wondering if they would be o.k. for sprouts if they were rinsed off.
Thanks for your time and have a great day!
Jim
Christina says:
May 2, 2012 at 2:42 pm (UTC -7)
Hi Jim! Thanks for watching – great question… I don’t think you need to be troubled by the inoculant (which as you know, fixes nitrogen via rhizobia, a benefit to legumes) on your peas if you grow shoots or microgreens. With microgreens you don’t actually eat the seed (or any portion of the plant under the soil), you simply eat the shoot or green growth up top. If you were indeed making pea sprouts the traditional way (without soil) and eating the sprout and pea seed, then perhaps you’d want to avoid dusting with inoculant as I am not sure if it is considered edible or palatable… Hope that helps!
Aunty Carol says:
May 5, 2012 at 5:16 pm (UTC -7)
Hey Chris and Jon,
Great work on Global TV. We just got to see it this am as a friend had pvr’d it for us. We were without tv for several days trying to decide what format to use cable or satelitte.
Anyhow we are very excited about the book and while we were watching our friend mentioned that he has no luck growing basil. Any tricks???
Love
Carol
Christina says:
May 7, 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -7)
Thank you so much Carol! We adore Global TV… they’re fun. Regarding basil, we had a listener on CBC BC Almanac with the same issues. Our suggestions: grow basil near a wall or stone surface for extra heat. It loves to grow in dark or black containers for the same reason (absorbs heat). We have had much better luck with the smaller-leaf basil varieties with woodier stems. They are often called Thai basil. The plants are very prolific and seem to be more forgiving when grown outdoors. Our best basil however was grown in a hothouse. I hope those tips help! Good luck!
xo J+C
robert madden says:
May 6, 2012 at 10:05 am (UTC -7)
Please let us know when you guys are at nusery we would love to see you guys , take care hopefulley will conect soon bye robert.
Christina says:
May 7, 2012 at 10:04 am (UTC -7)
We would love to see you guys… We’ll be in North Van on June 02 and hopefully more events in the Lower Mainland through the summer. Cheers, xo c+j
lauri says:
May 12, 2012 at 10:14 pm (UTC -7)
Love your first book!!! saw you on Global and want to try the peashoots. What kind of peas do you recommend? also, is it necessary to have drainage holes in the container?
thanks and keep up thegreat work…..really enjoy your website and blog!!!
Christina says:
May 14, 2012 at 2:42 pm (UTC -7)
Thank you Lauri for your kind feedback! You can grow peashoots with any seed pea. The ones we used on Global were a Russian heirloom variety (a tall one) that we had saved last year. We don’t always bother with drainage holes and it doesn’t seem to make any difference : ) Just don’t over water them and good luck with your shoots!
Rob madden says:
June 2, 2012 at 5:05 pm (UTC -7)
It was sure good to see u guys… say hi to your mom and ken bye for now I hope u success with your new book .
Christina says:
June 4, 2012 at 7:30 am (UTC -7)
Awesome to see you and Justin, Rob! Thanks for coming to our event on Sat! xo C+J
Sarah says:
June 13, 2012 at 9:18 pm (UTC -7)
I recently saw you at Cedar Rim in Langley talking about Microgreens. My sister and I both started over a week ago growing pots that contained peas and purple broccoli. The peas are doing quite well and growing fuller leaves. The purple broccoli is still very thin stalks with small leaves even though they are about the same height as the peas. Is it a problem that they are in the same pot together? Will the purple broccoli mature as the peas are?
Thanks!!
Christina says:
June 13, 2012 at 9:33 pm (UTC -7)
Hi Sarah; Well, that is a neat experiment! You may end up with weaker broccoli if the peas do take over. Peas are generally more robust and quickly turn into bigger shoots, from sprouts. A good rule of thumb if you want to combine plantings is to select and sow seeds of approximately the same size. You’ll find that the sprouts are more consistent that way. I hope it works out for you and even if the broccoli greens are thinner they will still be delicious and nutritious. Good luck!