10,000 Barefoot Bees

12/07/2020

July 12 2020 New Brunswick Garden Mentors Question of the Week: What can you plant in July in New Brunswick? Elaine and Archie gardening mentors 0 This week’s question for our New Brunswick Garden Mentors is: What can we plant in July in New Brunswick? A little note from the editors Our mentors ar...

26/06/2020

Garden mentor question of the week: How have you adapted to weather and climate change?
http://10000barefootbees.ca/2020/06/26/response-to-changing-climate/

June 26 2020 We asked our local garden mentors: How have you adapted your gardening to changing climate? Elaine and Archie gardening 0 This week’s question for our New Brunswick Garden Mentors is: This is shaping up to be a weird year weather-wise for gardening. How have you adapted or changed you...

24/06/2020

A new 10,000 Barefoot Bees film, this one about the joy of making sprouts in a mason jar. It's not a how-to; there are already tons out there.

This is best watched on your phone, full screen and vertical, our favourite way.
https://youtu.be/0dqcccGsAFs

Thanks to Suzanne Babineau Pottery for her wonderful plate she made that has a small but important role here.
Elaine Mandrona

First of all, watch this on your phone, vertical and full screen. We have a love for sprouts and for mason jars. Imagine food sprouting up in a jar that you ...

19/06/2020

Pests are a gardener's nightmare. Our New Brunswick Gardening Mentors share some tactics that have worked for them.

http://10000barefootbees.ca/2020/06/19/pest-advice/

June 19 2020 Pests. You Know They’re Coming. Some Advice from Our Local NB Garden Mentors Elaine and Archie gardening mentors 0 This week’s question for our New Brunswick Garden Mentors is: What are the most common garden pests in your area and how do you deal with them? A little note from the e...

12/06/2020

Just when I think I knoswsomething, these folks teach me more.

Our local Gardening Mentors were asked their #1 tip for composting and soil building.
http://10000barefootbees.ca/2020/06/05/our-mentors-share-some-of-their-composting-tip/

12/06/2020

When and how much should you be watering your garden. Our New Brunswick Gardening Mentors gave us some great local tips.
http://10000barefootbees.ca/2020/06/12/our-mentors-watering-advice/

June 12 2020 It’s Getting Hot — Finally. Our New Brunswick Garden Mentors Share Their Watering Advice Elaine and Archie gardening 0 This week’s question for our New Brunswick Garden Mentors is: Now that the hot weather is here, what is your best watering advice? A little note from the editors ...

05/06/2020

Our local Gardening Mentors were asked their #1 tip for composting and soil building.
http://10000barefootbees.ca/2020/06/05/our-mentors-share-some-of-their-composting-tip/

29/05/2020

What are you doing in your garden this weekend?

Knowing what to do is important. Knowing *when* to do it is even more important. Local knowledge is such a huge part of getting your garden off on a successful path. To that end, what are some of our New Brunswick gardening experts doing this weekend starting May 29.

Karen Rogers
Moving plants around garden and dividing to fill in spots. Completed first pollinator garden for Dr Suzuki Butterflyway Project. Watering greens, kale and bush peas. Hardening off tomatoes, herbs and flowers.

Mario Doiron
Spreading compost and prepping garden beds for first plantings of carrots, corn, beans and northern delight tomatoes. Planting more fruit trees and mulching around established bushes with cardboard and sawdust and then pruning dead wood now that I can see which branches leaf out or not.

Alicia Clarkson
Garden Coordinator PMC Community Garden
Currently, we are preparing the soil for our warm weather crops to get it ready for planting after last frost.

Harvesting the last of our cool spring veggies, and hardening off our summer crops to get them ready for planting!

Also building trellises and caring for our long season plants that are already up and growing (potatoes, onions and garlic)

Bernadette Goguen
Getting soil ready for annual cover crops (buckwheat)...transplanting tomatoes , debudding grapevines... almost time to harvest chives for drying, waiting for chive blossoms to infuse vinegars..gathering spruce tips!! Hardening off tender annuals...and so much more

Go to our website for some background on these experts. They've graciously provided contact info if you need more mentoring.
http://10000barefootbees.ca/