I hope to get some pics up soon, but the garden is growing strong.    We’ve harvested a bunch of radishes and lettuce, and everything else is making the garden look like a jungle.  Beans and tomatoes are starting to flower, cucumbers and squash shouldn’t be too far behind.  The radishes are up like 8 inches, expect I’ll have to pick the rest of them shortly and plant some more.

We had a problem with slugs eating the beans.  The solution?  Corn meal.  Place a couple teaspoons in a can and lay the can on it’s side in the garden.  No more slugs.  No idea how the corn meal kills the slugs, but it works well.

While we’re eating great organic vegetables now, fresh from the garden, we occassionally get to eat ‘organic’ meat as well.  IMO the very best is wild raised (and properly conserved and managed!).  I went fishing on the Rideau Lakes this weekend with my good friend David Ross, as we do for one weekend every year.  Caught some bass, a crappie, and a couple of pike.  Not only is it a lot of fun, but you can’t get better, fresher meat than right out of the lake – chemical free.

We got stopped in the middle of the lake by the conservation boys, checking our fishing licenses.  While I’m not a big fan of fishing licenses (they’re not a license – they’re a tax since it’s only money, there’s no training or requirements to become licensed and there should be) but I want to give a big shout out to the conservation folks for doing a great job.  In most places in Ontario we have more fish and wildlife, sustained, than we’ve ever had in my memory.  Rideau lakes has bass just about jumping into your boat.  Walleye (Pickeral) and perch in Lake Erie are off the charts; we frequently go perch fishing in Lake Erie and catch plenty when years ago anything you caught there would’ve had 3 eyes and a fused spine.  And I’ve seen wild turkey from Windsor to Ottawa and further north than Barrie.  Wild turkey was actually extinct in Ontario and now they’re commonplace.  Same with deer – they’re everywhere in SW Ontario.  While we don’t hunt ourselves, if you want natural born and raised game, even if you live in an urban area of SW Ontario, it is available to you.  And that’s due in no small part to the efforts of the conservation folks.