You Grow Girl™

We popped into the C.N.E last night for a bit of picture-taking and happened upon the Toronto Gesneriad Society table displaying the largest selection of the craziest African violets I have ever seen! Some of the names were just a little bit naughty, and some of

The raccoons may have got a lot, but they didn't get my tomatillos.

A few weeks ago my beautiful blue jade corn was devastated by squirrels or baby raccoons. We're not sure which because both have been spotted on the deck since then. I've been so miserable about the loss I couldn't bring myself to write about it until

What are the Dog Days of Summer? And is the this time of the year that it occurs? Is it when all dogs are tired? I know my dog is. After two and a half months of listening to my two kids bicker and

It's been a mix of work and romantic drama this year leaving not enough time for gardening to conquer my habitual laziness. There's no cow parsley anywhere, I'll give myself credit for that. But the grass is knee deep in places, the shrubs are

Yikes. It's been a long while since I've updated. Obviously an awful lot has happened in my gardens since my last update. The weather has been the strangest this spring/summer of any year I can recall. It has been wetter, cooler and greyer.

I was going to title this “Stupid Evil Dumbass Bastards at the Gate,”(SEDBAGs for short) in honor of the Cucumber Killers next door who have taken to hacking off parts of my tomato plants with a vengeance if they deign to stray from their caged/staked confines for even