CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)

@canadianchick

The godless Canadian liberal baking & gardening accountant you were warned about. Team Cobra Chicken. Slava Ukraini. She/her.

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CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 13

I’m not sure this is actually a dwarf tomato, on day 225 😂😂 It has been heavily pruned a few times. I suspect it is growing so much because I have been way too busy (and uninterested in) hand pollinating it, so it just keeps growing. J’Adore, bred by Karen Olivier

Two tomato plants in an Aerogarden which have grown twice as tall as the hydroponic unit itself. It is in front of a window and sprawls across and up the expanse. They are covered in small yellow flowers and you can see a couple of small fruits on the lower right.

Two small heart shaped tomatoes. One is ripe and striped green and red. The other is unripe and striped in two shades of green.

The display on an aerogarden showing it is day 225 since planting.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 13

I was at a memorial on Saturday. The deceased was a lifelong rock gatherer. So as part of the service we were invited to grab a rock that spoke to us, and if we chose, label it with its origin, as her son did not know the origin of any of the rocks she had. My chosen rock.

A roughly oval shaped dark red rock. It seems lightly polished with lots of pits and veins of lighter coloured unpolished stone.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jun 21

More from my community garden plot - a corner of my “chaos bed”. Yarrow (the big umbels), cornflowers (the blue, purple and pink starbursts) and fading chive blossoms (purple tufts).

An unwieldy tangle of flowers above a bed of green. The leaves are a mix of long and thin, feathery and small strappy shapes. There are large umbel heads of yarrow in bright red, mauve-pink and creamy white in the centre (mostly) surrounded by small starbursts of blue, dark pink and purple cornflowers. To the left are fading purple tufts of chive blossoms.

Behind all of it you can see some more orderly brassica plants.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jun 21

King’s Ransom sweet peas burst into bloom today.

Two sweet pea blooms on a background of green leaves. The flowers are an ombré of deep coral pink through pinkish cream.

Two sweet pea blooms with a background of straw mulch and blurry green & orange marigolds. The blooms are a dark coral pink at the calyx and fade to a pinkish cream at the edges.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jun 20

Pimm’s Cup on my balcony

A tall ice filled glass with a green straw is shown balanced on my leg. Behind it is a screen of lush green plants. The drink in the glass is a Pimm’s cup - it is orange-red in colour and has lemon, strawberry and cucumber slices in it

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jun 11

Timeline cleanse - my yarrow is starting to bloom

Dark pink yarrow flowers above green foliage. The flowers are in an umbel shape and each head is made up of dozens of tiny five petalled flowers

An umbel of vivid red yarrow flowers above green foliage with blurry blue and purple flowers in the background. Some umbels are barely open.

A close up of the tiny five petalled flowers on the red yarrow

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Apr 15

Four paperback novels by Andrew M Greeley - Happy Are The Merciful, The Bishop And The Three Kings, The Bishop In The West Wing, and The Bishop and the Missing L Train.

The books are part of the Father Blackie Ryan series, which features a Catholic priest in Chicago who solves “locked room” mysteries.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Mar 6

Timeline cleanse - seedlings and baby plants on my kitchen table. Snapdragon babies, some water propagated and potted on coleus plants (left is 4th generation, right is 3rd), a seed snail of coleus seedlings and finally, two tall root trainer cells of zinnias, yarrow and cornflowers. #gardening

Baby snapdragon plants in a cell tray. Each plant is just getting its first true leaves.

Two small coleus plants. One has diamond shaped leaves that are mostly red with a light yellow green border. The other has more standard shaped leaves that are mostly yellow-green, but blotched with red.

There are other tiny seedlings in tall plant cells behind them.

A spiral of white packing foam sheet filled with soil and vermiculite. 6 tiny seedlings of coleus are just beginning to show.

Small green seedlings in black cells. The seedlings range from tiny new growth close to the soil to larger seedlings showing signs of true leaves

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Feb 16

Yeah, no Arctic air here - this is my garden a week ago in the Vancouver suburbs :)

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jan 25

I needed to do something positive and forward looking today. So I started my onion seeds. #gardening #vegetablegardening #seedstsrting

Two white poly “snail” rolls filled with potting mix are standing upright in a green gardening tray. Behind them is a silver aerogarden with two tomato plants.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jan 1

No complaints :)

My 2026 word, thanks to Merriam-Webster is picturesque.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Nov 16

My neighbour (@janikiu on Insta) has a Yule Cat painting I love! www.instagram.com/p/DQ-sPW0kcD...

A painting of a winter forest scene at night. A giant black cat with yellow eyes looms over a snow covered cottage in the forest. The lights inside the cottage glow warmly. A small orange cat is looking up at the Yule Cat in awe.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 21

Thanks - here’s one for you!

This zinnia (part of the Joy mix from Windfall Flowers in Kamloops BC) has three rows of Ray petals that shade from magenta near the centre to orange on the ends. The deep pink centre is surrounded by a halo of bright yellow pollen florets.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 19

This particular tomato (Purple Pear) has a tendency to throw a lot of oddly shaped fruit - double or triple bodies are not uncommon. This one cracked me up. Is it a bunny? Or a longhorn steer? A proto-cephalopod? Does it just want a hug?

A pale pink oval shaped tomato with two appendages or outgrowths from the stem end that curve out and away from the body.

In this photo the tomato is on its side with the appendages pointing up like bunny ears or a longhorn steer’s horns.

This is the same as the first photo with bunny ears, but a side view

In this photo, the tomato is upside down so the appendages look like legs or tentacles attached to an oval body

In this photo the tomato is upright with the stem up, and the growths are reaching toward the camera like arms opened for a hug

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 19

I’ve got two plants who are turning out head-sized tomatoes as well. (Kim’s Civil War Oxheart). (I harvest at breaker stage to avoid losses to pests, including the two legged kind)

A large green tomato with pink blushing sits on a scale. The scale reads 1 pound, 10.7 ounces

A large green tomato, blushing with pink on one side sits on a scale. The scale reads 1 pound, 8 ounces.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 15

According to Elections Canada, if the intention is clear, a mis-spelling will be ok. Voters are given a candidate list. The long ballot people could have done something amusing here… www.elections.ca/content.aspx...

Screenshot from elections Canada - the text shows a sample ballot and has the following text:

How do I vote using the adapted ballot?
The adapted ballot will have a blank space where you write the name of your candidate of choice. A list of candidates will be provided to you.

What happens if I spell the candidate's name wrong?
As long as your intention is clear, your vote will be counted, even if you misspell the candidate's name.
However, if you write only the name of a political party, your ballot cannot be counted.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 15

In Tomato News, I picked a few pounds of tomatoes this afternoon. (At breaker stage, they will be a deep deep pink when fully ripe) Two. I picked two tomatoes. This is “Kim’s Civil War Oxheart”. The largest is badly catfaced, so it won’t all be useable, but that’s still a pretty chonky tomato!

A very large heart shaped tomato, still green with coral pink blushing. It fills my entire hand.

A large, but slightly smaller heart shaped tomato, mostly green (the blushing is on the other side). It fills up most of my hand

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 10

Timeline cleanse. Look at this enormous tomato from my garden. It’s a Kim’s Civil War Oxheart. I harvested it at “breaker stage” to avoid damage from pests (including thieving humans). Fully ripe it will be a deep pink. Haven’t tasted one yet, but looking forward to it!

A giant tomato that completely fills my hand. It is an “oxheart” type, which means it is shaped like a heart with a blunted pointy bottom. It’s about half ripe, pink-orange on the bottom shading up to yellow green on the shoulders

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 3

Sunday #FlowerReport - buzzy bee edition

A bumblebee working on a vibrant dark red sweet pea (Reknown is the variety)

Bumblebee butt on a pale blue cornflower

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 3

They start green, turn black from the shoulders down, but will stay a little green on the bottom until they hit breaker point and go orange ish and then rose.

Small baby tomatoes on the vine. They are dull and opaque with a little fuzz on them. There is a purple blush starting at the shoulders on down

A cluster of more mature black tomatoes. They appear almost fully black and are very shiny.

The underside of a cluster of tomatoes , where you can see the bottoms are still very green, even tho most of the tomato is a shiny black

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Aug 2

Fully ripe they are deep pink on the bottom and under the calyx.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 15

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CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 13

Also a few pics of the garden entrance, and one from the side.

The entrance to a garden plot on a hot sunny day with a vivid blue sky. There is a grey wood framed gate on a chicken wire fence. The garden opens to a natural cedar pathway that leads to a round metal flower bed. On either side of the gate are huge tomato plants.

The opening to a garden plot with a natural cedar pathway that leads to a round metal flower bed. On either side of the gate are huge tomato plants. You can also see pops of pink, yellow, red, orange and white from the flowers and some large yellow onions on the right

A side view of the garden plot at eye level. It is very lush and filled with plants in every shade of green, tall tomatoes and bright coloured flowers. It is a sunny day with a vivid blue cloudless sky.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 13

Warm rain this week has caused the garden to go berserk! Harvested garlic ahead of the rain this week, all heads were bigger than standard grocery store size, but some were massive (they will shrink as they cure). Had four onions starting to bolt so I harvested them as well.

A very large head of Red Russian garlic with stem and root attached and covered in dry dirt. It fills the palm holding it completely.

Three heads of garlic of good size, covered in dirt, with stems and roots still attached.

A very large yellow onion that covers the whole palm of the person holding it. It still has some roots and stem attached.

Four freshly pulled onions in a grey and orange harvest basket. Three are small to medium grocery store sized. One is quite a bit larger

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 9

Here’s a butterfly in my garden

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 9

Also - car flowers! I started bringing a screw top container with water and a little plant food in it when I go to the garden. Lets me rest a bit when I get home before arranging them. Bonus is using the cup holder to bring them home! Scabiosa, snapdragons, zinnias, strawflowers and sweet peas.

Interior of a car. In the cupholder by the gear shift is a blue and orange container with a big bunch of flowers arranged haphazardly. The dominant colour is pink, from snapdragons, sweet peas and small zinnias,
, but there are pops of orange and white zinnia, yellow snapdragon and burgundy scabiosa.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 9

Pulled my garlic today, just before the rain. Was gonna wait another week, but some early signs of rust showed up in the last couple of days , so time to pull these beasts. Russian Red, pulled 18 heads.

An orange and grey silicone basket is filled with freshly dug garlic heads. The heads are still on long green stalks with several dried yellow leaves near the dirt-encrusted heads. 4 heads are visible, but there are 18 in the basket.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 5

Timeline cleanse. Lil harvest basket. Flowers (cornflowers, sweet peas, snapdragons, zinnias), mint, tarragon, celery, a handful of snap peas, some kohlrabi. Kinda wanted to pose with those like a dude with a fish 😂

An orange and grey basket holds a container of mixed flowers, some green herbs and celery. The flowers are shades of yellow, pink, red, blue and burgundy.

Two green kohlrabis being held up by their leaves. The backdrop is a flower and vegetable garden.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jul 2

My garden is my therapy. In the winter I can plan it while eating meals made with things I dried, canned and froze. In late winter and spring I can start seeds, and then comes all the transplanting and direct sowing and harvesting. And the preserving.

A garden plot in a community garden with a chicken wire fence, containing several beds of plants and cedar mulch path. The beds are full of tomatoes, brassicas, onions, celery, flowers, herbs and more.

CanadianChick (aka SkepCdnChick)@canadianchick· Jun 30

In case you missed my post - these are the Chantilly snapdragons in my garden plot.