Fiddle Creek Farm

09/23/2026

09/11/2026

Field update week 37

Fall cover crops are getting established in a few beds now, scattered all around. Some will be planted into garlic in a few months, some will be left to winter kill and act as blanket for the soil over the winter. Other beds will soon be sown in winter hardy cover crops that will do their real work in the early spring.

A few seed crops this year, gradually coming in. Sugar snap, pole beans, a few different flowers, herbs.

Dahlias and sunflowers are the shining stars this time of year, bringing some vibrant colour while the rest of the farm slowly morphs into just shades of green and brown.

Fall planting of broccolini is a small patch but it’s looking really nice. These were transplanted into a bed following the first round of sugar snap peas.

Fall beets are coming along. These were direct sown after garlic. I’ve found beets to be quite hit or miss for me here, so fingers crossed for these guys.

Purple sprouting broccoli, a first for me, I don’t even know if I’ve ever eaten it before. Very interested to see how it fares through the winter and excited about the prospect of early broccolini in spring. This bed was spring planted in something I’ve now forgotten, but I do know that it failed, so it went into a summer cover crop then this overwintering broccoli.

09/02/2026

Rainy day means time to hunker down and make some garlic braids!

I have a lot of fun making these, but it’s so hard to find the time in this late summer-early fall season, so I’m definitely happy to have the opportunity to work inside today.

Pictured here is a 2lb softneck garlic braid. Very limited availability, so please reach out if you’re interested. Hardneck bunches are up next and will be available in 2 sizes. Find them at the Comox Valley Farmers' Market , Chad, Jill, and the Wolfhounds shop, or send us a message for farm pickup.

09/01/2026

Tomatoes still chugging along, just a few more weeks to go before these all come out and we plant the beds into fall & winter greens.

08/31/2026

We can definitely feel the transition to fall, goodbye August!

We lost almost all of our summer carrot plantings, but the fall crop is looking niceeee

Lots of clearing beds now and racing to get some late plantings in for fall greens, herbs, overwintered crops and cover crops too.

Hoping I’ll get some time this week on rainy days to make some garlic braids. Thank you all for your inquiries and your patience. I am indeed making them again this year and they are coming soon!

08/26/2026

Shallots! This was a fun trial this year, possibly more alliums in the plans for next year 😊

07/30/2026

This week’s salad club box is full of summer goodness. The first cherry tomatoes, baby leeks, cilantro, stir fry mix, spicy salad mix, and salad turnips.

07/23/2026

Thought these flowers deserved a spot on the grid. Some of my favourite bouquets to date!

Also, softneck garlic is now in thanks to the generous help from some pals. Hardneck is next, hopefully in the coming week. I need to take down all the dried flowers to clear out some space for them, we’ve got lots of garlic this year!

07/17/2026

Week 29 field update

First planting of sugar snap peas is now finished, the last section is being saved for seed, including a few scarlet runner beans that either over wintered or self seeded from last year’s crop in the same bed and I let grow out amongst the peas. The rest of the row was taken down, trellis removed, bed cleared of pea vines and weeds, amended, and some pea vines placed back on top as mulch. Clear plastic to solarize for 1-2 sunny days, then will plant fall-winter broccoli into the mulch.

Some sunflowers in the foreground doing just fine in a dry bed, unirrigated as the line that serves this bed would also reach the garlic beds and we are avoiding watering that now as we get close to garlic harvest time. Next bed is some recently sown cover crops (buckwheat and mung beans, because those are the seeds I had on hand). Next bed shows a terminated buckwheat cover crop with purple sprouting broccoli transplanted into it. Another cover crop mulch experiment that is new to us this year.

Garlic nearly ready. We aim for 5 still-green leaves, which means 5 layers of wrappers on the bulbs. This year we will trial removing (at harvest) the first greenish-brownish leaf that hasn’t totally dried up, for easier cleaning down the line. We like to trim the roots at harvest too, much easier to do when they are fresh and pliable than when they’ve dried after curing.

Kale is looking happier after mulching and receiving some liquid ferts (fish emulsion, kelp extracts and a bit of blackstrap molasses).

Kale seeds, slowly drying up and maturing. Another new experiment. These were planted late last summer and overwintered well in the field, we harvested lots of shoots in the spring, but still have lots of flowers and now seed pods. I learned a lot about seed farming from the fine folks at Heather & Simon but definitely still lots more to learn. I think these will be ready in just a couple more weeks.

Sweet peas doing their thing. I haven’t been cutting as much for market bunches this year, as I just haven’t had the time. I really don’t mind having a big wall of sweet peas in the middle of the garden though, lovely to work around some flowers ☺️

07/08/2026

This week’s Summer Salad Club: carrots, kale, cilantro, broccolini, micros and salad mix.

Coming soon: beans and cukes!

We’ve got lots of space in our fall subscription! Details on our website.

Summer subscription is currently running, but we do have a couple of spots open, please send us an email/DM if interested for the prorated price. Thanks!