Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Starting the process of turning 2026 garlic into 2027's. 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Feels like the lake is expressing strong opinions on something tonight. 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sowed the turnips after harvesting the garlic and that timing seems to work really well, as we head into stew season. 051
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Grateful for some rain after a pretty dry September. 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 30/09/20261. Receive an Ontario Health reminder letter to book a screening test 2. Book test 3. Arrive at clinic to be told it hasn't been long enough since my last test for me to have this one Come on, Ontario Health. There must be a more efficient way of doing this. 110
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My first piece of archival work in Canada has just turned up as part of a donation to the archives. Feeling a little old. 130
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My compost bins always seem to attract baby animals. This year it was some tiny but indignant milk snakes. In 2009 I found star-nosed moles. 131
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Went out cycling with a plan of picking up acorns to germinate. Didn't find any, but did gather some shagbark hickory nuts. I'll have a go at growing these, instead. 010
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Worked on improving the soil in one of the raised beds. Step one: sifting out stones. 200
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Shelling the pole beans: Big Mama black beans and a new one this year, Pellegrini. 101
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The garden is full of colour and life at this time of year. 012
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Tonight's harvest included interesting dried beans (Tiger's eye and Jacob's cattle) and two more giant stealth cucumbers (straight onto the compost heap). 100
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I may have solved the Mystery of the Underproductive Pickling Cucumber Plant. 211
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Starting to pick the late summer fruit: Clapp's Favourite pear and Chester blackberries. 161
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Eggplants coming along: Listada de Gandia is the stripey one, the other is Rosita. 041
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Toby-dog used to steal ripe tomatoes. Lily has developed a taste for under-ripe pears. 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The strip of wildflower meadow I sowed in November 2022 continues to mature. This year it is full of bee balm and prairie coneflowers for the first time. 021
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Roasting tomatoes into sauce. A much better crop than last year. 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Reading about the loss of parish registers from Greenland when the MS Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg in 1959: Wikipedia share.google/Jg1NPyYDqtQt...share.googleMS Hans Hedtoft - Wikipedia 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Goldenrod crab spider on a coneflower. The pink stripes are a good match. 030
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I only have one sunflower and something has taken a huge bite from the top of it. 100
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026And this is after I gave five away yesterday. Cucumber is now a compulsory accompaniment to every meal. 010
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A later-than-usual garlic harvest, this year. Yesterday's rain made the job a bit easier than it has been in the past. 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A few moments of peace, just me and a Great Lake. #EarlyMorningBikeRide 000
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Might get to pick at least one eggplant this year. 010
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Found a piece of automotive history on today's #EarlyMorningBikeRide 000
Reposted by Amanda HillPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Here’s a thing I wrote for Monocle for the summer. Cheers, Tom monocle.com/design/beaut...monocle.comGreetings from the past: A look back at postcards serving as snapshots of historyHow much can holiday missives from decades past tell us about the world? Volumes, says this postcard collector and author. 714125
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This coneflower starts off looking like a regular pink one, then turns boldly different. Admirable. 120
Reposted by Amanda HillMARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you're a GLAM institution and are already being dinged for "compliance issues," maybe don't carry manuscript collections around with you to random people's houses and look at them while drinking coffee 2493
Reposted by Amanda HillInternet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Happy Canada Day! 🍁 Over one million items — 550 years of Canadian history, in ~90 languages — are free to explore at archive.org/details/toronto. Parliamentary debates, opera libretti, 15th-century incunabula, and more, built by libraries across Canada. internetarchivecanada.org/2026/07/01/w...archive.orgInternet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 0125
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I first noticed Butterfly weed at the Hampton Court flower show back in 2012. Finally got round to growing it from seed last year and it looks like the flowers might open soon. #plantsforpollinators 141
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Blackfly have found the broad bean plants, but it looks like the cavalry has arrived. 040
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Helped an archives visitor today who was born in 2012. 2012! 220
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Poppies have appeared (uninvited) in the garden. I think I'm looking forward to seeing what they look like when they open up... 220
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Turning the garlic scapes into frozen cubes of pesto. 221
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A week is a long time to be away from the garden in June. Spent today dodging showers and sowing cosmos and fennel. 061
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I've been here a week and the cats are still glaring at me. 140
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A thoughtful gift of roses from my late brother's garden. 150
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Got a chance to do a country walk in the Surrey Hills and soak up some of the English things I miss when I'm in Canada. 110
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Staying with my aunt and her somewhat menacing cats. 030
Amanda Hill @mandahill.bsky.social · 06/06/2026At the airport: was surprised to hear an announcement that circus animals were permitted in the terminal. Slightly disappointed to hear the French version which only talked about service animals. 121
