Monday, August 20, 2012

Garlic Festival 2012 @ The Sharing Farm

Yesterday morning we parked the car at Spul'u'kwuk's Elementary School.  Isaac checked out the school playground (he loves exploring new places) and had a lot of fun.  After we walked over to the Sharing Farm in Terra Nova Park to attend the Garlic Festival.

There were some booths set up in the front, a vegetable/garlic/plant market, garlic ice cream, some cooking demonstrations, and some music performances.  Isaac made a bee-line for the garden in the sharing farm and walked to the end.  Daddy and Isaac walked on through a field to watch airplanes take-off and land.  There were picnic tables and benches in the "viewing area".  He also had a chance to pet a grasshopper.  I walked back to check out the market and picked up some bok choy plants and a gai lan.

Daddy and Isaac tried out the garlic ice cream.  Isaac exclaimed that it was "Delicious", but Daddy wasn't so keen on the flavour.

Today, I picked up a couple of planters/pots for the vegetable plants.  We potted the avocado seed and transplanted the vegetables into a planter and pot.  Isaac helped to water the plants.  I think it's too chilly for the avocado to stay outside, so we're keeping them inside, but the vegetables are staying out on our balcony.  I damaged some of the bok choy roots when I was trying to transplant them, so we'll have to see if they'll survive.

Update: August 25th - One of the gai lag leaves look like it's withering.  And some of the bok choy leaves are flopping over/ going limp.  I have them on the balcony under the sun.  I've been watering them about every other day.  I don't know if they need more or less water or something else.

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