Fiddle Creek Farm

Fiddle Creek Farm Naturally grown mixed vegetables and cut flowers, Comox BC. Subscription boxes available, or join our weekly email order list.

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

Thought these flowers deserved a spot on the grid. Some of my favourite bouquets to date! Also, softneck garlic is now i...
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!

Week 29 field updateFirst planting of sugar snap peas is now finished, the last section is being saved for seed, includi...
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 ☺️

This week’s Summer Salad Club: carrots, kale, cilantro, broccolini, micros and salad mix. Coming soon: beans and cukes!W...
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!

Week 28, scenes from a midweek harvest day on the farm, produce and flowers for our Salad Club, Chad, Jill, and the Wolf...
07/07/2026

Week 28, scenes from a midweek harvest day on the farm, produce and flowers for our Salad Club, Chad, Jill, and the Wolfhounds shop, Comox Valley Farmer Collab, Marc-André Dubois, GIGI’S OYSTERS, Tidal Café.

Fresh bed of mixed baby mustard greens for our salad mixes.

Broccolini and lots of herbs this week.

Zucchini is starting to produce well.

A total fail year for carrots over here, due to poor germ on a few early beds and total purslane takeover on some May and June plantings. The one beds of carrots we now have is becoming ever more precious goods. We’ve got some planted for fall now. but we have some serious rust fly pressure here so the success of those beds is very much tbd.

Some sweet peas and other fresh cut flowers for bouquets heading to Chad, Jill, and the Wolfhounds shop. I’m totally not keeping up with the sweet peas this year, so it looks like I’ll be collecting a lot of mixed sweet pea seed 😅

Flowers for drying. Pictured here is some larkspur, dahlia, snapdragons, strawflowers and more.

Market day! Lots of salad greens, herbs, micros, broccolini, carrots, edible flowers and cut flowers, juicy peas, plants...
07/04/2026

Market day! Lots of salad greens, herbs, micros, broccolini, carrots, edible flowers and cut flowers, juicy peas, plants and seeds for your garden.

Comox Valley Farmers' Market

Harvest days were quite enjoyable with the bit of drizzle and cloud cover at the end of this week. Now that we’re in the...
07/04/2026

Harvest days were quite enjoyable with the bit of drizzle and cloud cover at the end of this week. Now that we’re in the summer season, we’ve got double markets every weekend! Courtenay Saturday 9-1 and Cumberland Sunday 10-1. Hope you see you there 😊

I am personally loving the current palette of flowers in bloom and we’ve got lots of herbs and greens as usual.

I’ve started drying edible flowers for sprinkles again and looking forward to making some fun colour combos there too.

It’s July, there’s lots going on! Beds are constantly getting flipped from one crop to the next and some fall crops will be going in soon too, believe it or not!

Week 27 field update The peas have completely overgrown their trellis like they do every year. They are at least somewha...
07/02/2026

Week 27 field update

The peas have completely overgrown their trellis like they do every year. They are at least somewhat more contained this year. Leeks and shallots coming along.

Perpetual leeks from Michalina | Perennial Vegetable Seeds going to flower.

Garlic is nearly ready to be harvested. Still a couple weeks to go, I reckon.

Broccolini took a long long time to get going this spring, but is now producing well. Lots more planned for fall!

Golden beets and lettuce heads alongside this row of field cukes.

Lush stand of buckwheat cover crop.

Bean canopy has filled out and tiny beans are forming. Soon!

Rudbeckia starting to bloom. The patch is getting a bit dense (as well as the feverfew in the bed behind it) so will need to do some dividing this fall.

All the lush colours of yarrow and snapdragons showing off.

✔️Got some very much appreciated help from friends this week and managed to get somewhat caught up on the ever growing to do list.

💛 Farming really demands a lot of your mind and body and while it is very rewarding and meaningful work, it is really a struggle to find balance. I’m trying to be much more intentional this year about setting boundaries and scheduling in at least one non-farming activity a week. We live in such a beautiful place, it’s a shame to not be able to get out and see the sights and do the things in the summertime.

Week 26. It seems I’ve only taken photos of flowers this week, so that’s what you’re getting haha! The first juicy snapd...
06/26/2026

Week 26. It seems I’ve only taken photos of flowers this week, so that’s what you’re getting haha!

The first juicy snapdragons are here, sweet peas are going gangbusters, some bright and cheery bouquets for the market, orders, and Chad, Jill, and the Wolfhounds shop (and some for home).

Trying to get more flowers dried for fall projects too before the garlic comes in to take over all the space.

Week 24 update from the field. It’s hot hot hot. We’ve been trailing some new irrigation (sumi soaker) to help with even...
06/13/2026

Week 24 update from the field. It’s hot hot hot. We’ve been trailing some new irrigation (sumi soaker) to help with even coverage and mid day misting to help cool down all the greens. So far, looking good! Will be switching over our wobblers to sumi lines soon. More than half the farm is on drip irrigation, some is on overhead (where we grow the greens) and a small section is an unirrigated dry plot.

Some real big bok choy coming out of the field. This is my first time growing it, and I’m loving it!

Peas are nearly there, hopefully just a week away.

Stock for bouquets and edible flowers. Sometimes I love the smell and sometimes I hate it.

So many lettuces right now. Swimming in lettuces!

Zucchini just around the corner too. Yay!

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