#veseys

Here I am acting like it's the 1900s and ordering my fall bulbs from a catalogue 🤣 I know it's not environmentally friendly but it's so much more fun and easier than going through their website (or any website for that matter). I only gave myself $100 budget to experiment with since I do not have any experience with bulbs. I mostly ordered pinks and yellows coz I want my spring garden to look extremely gae 🏳️‍🌈 So exciting! For my fellow Canadians out there who want to buy some fall bulbs, Veseys coupons are available till August 16th. Notspon.

Yes, you read that right! This is about our 2024 garden! I get regular emails from Veseys, promoting their products, and got a very interesting one today. On following the link, I knew I had to place an order! They had Canadian saffron crocuses available! From the description: “Exclusively Canadian, these bulbs are produced in Quebec. “ Okay, to technically they are a zone 4 bulb, but so is…

YAAASSSSSS THE VESEYS BULBS BE HERE!!!! And a week early at that too! Done a tally and I even ended up getting more Tulipa tarda than ordered (18 bulbs instead of just 8!!!)

Now with them here the new thing to figure out:

April 19, 2026

It’s that time of year again. The sun is shining. Early frosts are fewer, heat fluctuations between day and night are occurring, the snows that come melt within the day.

Time to get my peas in!

It used to be I would have to order deep root trainers from the UK.

Lee Valley Tools sells the deep root trainer pots and Veseys sells the whole kit (currently on sale).

Today, our first seed order arrived in the mail! It’s just a small order, but I wanted to make sure I had the yellow onion and shallots seeds in, since those need to be started indoors so early. I still have to place an order for the Red Wethersfield onions I want to try again, since they utterly disappeared after being transplanted, this past year! With all the seeds we have left from last…

Yes!!! The garlic is in! On my way home from running errands yesterday, I was able to stop at the post office and found our garlic order had come in earlier than the tracking information has said, the last time I looked. Since I then ended up going to my mother’s to get her to a dentist, that meant the garlic went into the ground today. Before I get into that, though… I followed up with my…