You Grow Girl™

3 out of 3 taste testers confirm, this variety of "fancy" pansy tastes like bubble gum. We will even go so far as to identify the very specific flavour of Bazooka Joe gum that has been chewed for too long.

I harvested my first batch of 'Purple Plum' radishes this evening from the rooftop garden. I'm growing them in an old wine crate alongside greens. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly

Two sets of lettuce seeds sown at the same time; the first grown under a plastic take-out container "cloche", the second grown without. With Cloche Without Cloche Here it is with the cloche

I came across this low fence made of tree prunings while walking through Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. It's very simply constructed and relies on the v-shape where one branch joins another rather than fussing with string and wire. Mind

We managed to upgrade our plot this year! Last year we had one along the evil bottom row, which has trees along the south side (ie. less sun), and is at the bottom of the slope (ie. really damp). We lucked out and got one along

"Invasive" does, in fact mean, well, "invasive". I'm always curious when I buy a new plant labelled as invasive, just how invasive can it be, really? That one little starter plant can't really get to be that big in one season, can it? Besides the usual mints,

Well, the title says it. Today I went searching for farmers. My organization-- Growing Hope (www.growinghope.net) is helping our local Ypsilanti Farmer's Market attract a greater diversity of customers and more vendors through a marketing campaign... and as part of our efforts to ensure food