You Grow Girl™

Well, it’s been a trying few days here in GardenLand. I now realize just how fortunate I was to have wonderful neighbors for the past 3 years, after I bought this place and moved in. Not only did Ed and Kerri have a cute dog for Hudson to

It's time to start posting updates on my gardens before things get too out-of-hand. Over at the community garden plot I dug in some fresh soil amenders and finished planting quite a while back. Thanks to some rain all the

The following photos were taken on a walk along the railroad tracks in my neighbourhood today. Row1: Unknown, Viper's Bugloss, Coreopsis (aka Tickseed) Row2: Milkweed (open flowers) Milkweed (closed flowers)      

...or rather, they've finally moved *away* from the building. For about 2 months now, I've had trays of seedlings against the back of my house, all in various stages of hardening off. First it was the tomatoes, and then when I finally got all of those planted and/or

Thinking upon the last weekend of May, there are words that spring to my mind. Words like ?triumph? and ?omnipotent? and ?whupass?. For yes truly, as the phoenix doth rise from its ashes so too is my garden no longer a cover candidate for ?Crackhead Landscaping?. What

I know y'all are dying to know what happened to Chia Screech. I'm sad to say that he is now with the Big Chia in the sky. Sniff. It's my fault. I murdered him. I gave him too much water and he started

An article by Karen von Hahn on Gayla Trail and You Grow Girl. "...it's as punchy, quirky and irreverent as its hip young urban audience." "Sanders (Trail) who is slight, intense and wears the statement eyeglasses of the srtistically inclined, also had trouble with the gardening industry's conventional beauty ideal.

Hello, my name is Schleprock, and I have the amazing ability to effect major climatic shifts in the environment. All I have to do is decide to go nutty with tomato growing, start hundreds of plants from seed, nurture and coddle them until they're ready to go outside....and

In keeping with tradition I am posting this year's Herb Fair haul. And in further keeping with tradition I was a complete glutton. This year I got smart and devised a buggy system that would allow me to carry lots of herbs (that buggy was one of