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You Grow Girl Seedling Growing Collective Year 2

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Remember last year when I invited local site readers to come out and grow seedlings together in a local greenhouse? Well, it's seed starting season and the greenhouse has kindly offered us some space again

Peperomia rotundifolia

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Oxalis Corymbosa

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Snowdrops (Galanthus)

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The Little Book That Could

It's been a month since my new book, "Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces" hit stores and a whole heck of a lot has happened during that time. I won't go over everything -- I just want to mention a few highlights for longevity. The

Winter Aconite

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Witch Hazel (Wide)

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What’s on Your Windowsill? (Plus Giveaway)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved A visit to Erika's apartment a month back has inspired a new sense of excitement about my own windowsills. The morning after the tour, we experienced a rare winter treat here in Toronto: sunshine!

Witch Hazel

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Ackee Tree

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Repurposed for the Garden: Flag Highlighter

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved When the folks behind this product sat down to envision a highlighter/post-it flag hybrid, I hardly think they knew they were creating a useful tool for gardeners. Students, office managers, and anal retentive note takers?

Descending into the Valley of Desolation

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Land Turtles

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Grow Great Grub Toronto Book Launch Party

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Last Wed, Feb 24 I hosted the official Toronto Grow Great Grub book launch party. Thanks so much to everyone who made it out to help me celebrate the launch of my new book,

Spiral Ginger (Costus)

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Amomum

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The Requirement to Garden

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved This is a long one. I suggest you make a cup of tea and a snack before starting. "And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your

Echeveria ‘Doris Taylor’

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Beehive Ginger

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More Seeds and Such That Will Need to Be Stuck into Some Soil, Somewhere

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Last week I traveled to Montreal to speak at the Montreal Seed Fair and sign copies of the "Grow Great Grub" book in support of the collective food gardening group, Action Communiterre. Toronto's
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SPEAKING TO A NEW-STYLE GARDENER

You Grow Girl was launched by Gayla Trail in February 2000 and has grown into a thriving online community that speaks to a new kind of gardener, seeking to redefine the modern world relationship to plants. This contemporary, laid-back approach to gardening places equal importance on environmentalism, style, affordability, art, and humour. - More

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday February 2, 2010

Grow Great Grub Book
Gayla's new book, “Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces” (Clarkson Potter/Random House) hits bookstores across North America!
Learn how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.

Tuesday February 2, 2010

Martha Stewart Living Radio Show
Morning Living
8am EST

Saturday, February 13 & Sunday, February 14, 2010

Montréal Botanical Garden / Jardin botanique de Montréal
Montreal Seedy Saturday
Montreal, Canada
There will be free workshops and seminars, a seed exchange table and garden author Gayla Trail will be launching her new book, Grow Great Grub.
Contact: Julie Richard animation@actioncommuniterre.qc.ca

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Grow Great Grub Book Launch Party
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Canada
6:30-10:30pm
FREE Admission!
Come out and help celebrate the launch of the book! Door prizes, book giveaways, seed starting station, nibbles, and music by DJ General Eclectic (Footprints, Uma Nota).

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Canada Blooms
Toronto, Canada
5pm
Stage/Lecture Room – Salon 105, Hall A
Set it and Forget It (Well Almost): How to build a self-watering container for finicky squashes, tomatoes, and other water-loving edibles using recycled materials.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

East York Garden Club
Toronto, Canada
7:30pm
Gayla will be presenting on the topic of City Gardening.

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Your Questions Answered: Tall and Floppy Seedlings

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Give Me Tomatoes

Tomatoes aren’t the easiest food plant to grow but they are the most rewarding.

Thrifty Containers for Tomatoes

Foraging for curbside gold and other free or cheap container options suitable for tomato growing.

Tomatoes to Grow in Containers (Or Anywhere Else for That Matter)

Find out about some of the best varieties for containers and why.

Plant Shall Eat Plant

Did you know you can make liquid fertilizer for your plants using other plants? Sounds like floral cannibalism but it’s not unlike compost when you think about it.

Tomatoes Like Milk

Water your tomato plants with a dash of milk to keep disease away.

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