Roots & SHOOTS

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What's Happening in the Garden
at Roots & Shoots

Scott Wiskerke

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Garden at Mahle House,  
Nanaimo, BC

Garden at Mahle House

Mahle House Restaurant is located in Cedar, ten minutes south of Nanaimo. It offers fine country dining. The menu changes with the seasons and features locally grown produce. Scott Wiskerke provides the kitchen with vegetables, eatable flowers, and herbs, all grown in the garden at Mahle House.

Enhance your dining experience with a walk through this garden. Flowers, vines, and shrubs make the environment colorful year round. More landscape features, paths, patios and arbors will be added as time goes by.

Examples of what we grow:

  • orange, yellow, and purple carrots
  • up to eight different varieties of summer squash
  • different color varieties of egg plant
  • a mild variety of jalapeno pepper
  • ten different varieties of tomatoes, selected for size, shape, color, and taste
  • a special French variety of bush beans
  • delicious basil

Take a garden tour:

(click thumbnails to enlarge)

french beans, click to enlarge zucchini flowers, click to enlarge squash, click to enlarge
sunflowers, click to enlarge flowers, click to enlarge
tomatoes, click to enlarge pond under construction, click to enlarge basil, click to enlarge

We grow a special variety of French beans which produces very straight, narrow, and tasty green beans. All summer long the basil is kept under a plastic cloche to keep the temperature warm and humid.

To make the garden more attractive flowers such as marigolds are planted in between the vegetables. Sunflowers are also used to decorate tables, plates, and dishes.

More information about our pond project is coming soon.


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Please contact us for a free consultation

tel: 250-618-0008
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