Growing Corn

Vancouver does not have the ideal climate for growing corn, yet this garden in East Vancouver has an entire border of corn in its front yard, still looking surprisingly green on November 20.


On December 7, I spotted these brown cornstalks in the front yard of a house on the west side of Vancouver. There appears to have been a vegetable garden here. A more fastidious gardener would have removed the stalks, but that would have prevented the view of the corn stalks in the snow of December 24.

Spinach Lover's Garden Under Snow

You can barely make out the ridges of snow over the rows of cloches that are protecting the spinach. The gardener probably did not expect such a heavy snowfall to occur and to remain for so many weeks in Vancouver. Typically there is rain in December. Let's hope that the spinach survives! (Refer to previous blog: Spinach Lover's Garden Under Development.)