Weekend Gardening Highlights
It was an insanely busy working weekend. Come Monday morning and I was desperate to unwind from the weekend, not the other way around. I still managed to get some time in most of the 
It was an insanely busy working weekend. Come Monday morning and I was desperate to unwind from the weekend, not the other way around. I still managed to get some time in most of the 
Lilactree Farm
I've got several deadlines on tap, a chipped filling that has exposed something that should not be exposed, and a bad case of writer's block, so today's post will be nearly wordless. These photos were taken 
Making More Herbs
About a month ago, I wrote a guest post for Apartment Therapy/Re-Nest on propagating herbs by cuttings. This is how I quickly double my basil harvest every summer at no extra cost. Basil grows easily 
Growing Sweet Potatoes in a Bag
My most recent Globe and Mail Kitchen Gardening article is on sweet potatoes and chronicles an experiment I took up by chance, growing sweet potatoes in a shopping bag.
While in Dominica I learned that 
Yes Virginia, There is a Blue Tomato
And I am growing it!
Back in February a secret somebody, whose identity I will not reveal (pinky swear), gifted me a package of seeds of the only open-pollinated (OP) blue tomato to have been 
A Bit of Light Summer Reading
As usual I'm acquiring books faster than I can read them, although I have placed a light moratorium on cookbooks. Last year I mentioned a sudden and insatiable craving for cookbooks. A year later and I have no where to put them! Update on the Morelle de Balbis
When I wrote about the Morelle de Balbis (Solanum sisymbrifolium) last it was on April 30, 2010 when the seedling was still living in the greenhouse. It had just begun to produce its thorns and 
Garden 52
The other day I realized that I am in a garden everyday during the growing season, enjoying some pretty fantastic things that never show up on this site. It's not uncommon for me to visit a 
