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Promoting Composting

A little while ago I was wandering around the City of Vancouver's website, specifically the parks and engineering services sections. Seems a little bizzare, I know, but I then happened upon this website. Apparently the City of Vancouver in their effort to cut back waste,

Square Foot Gardening Review

This year, as I was faced with the task of starting up our veggie garden relatively from scratch, I did a bunch of research into garden design, veggie growing, etc and settled on trying the Square Foot method. I did this for two reasons really. The first

Roses are Fussy!

Who knew!?! But seriously. Our house came with a number of lovely roses of different varieties. Some traditional pink, very fragrant lovely ones in the front, two of what I believe are dog roses also in front beds and a very prolific climbing rose on the back fence. READ MORE...

The Bubblegum Pansy

The Bubble Gum Pansy 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.

Purple Plum Radishes

Purple Plum Radish 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. Wine Crate Filled with Greens and Radishes Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly

A Tale of Two Lettuces

Two sets of lettuce seeds sown at the same time; the first grown under a plastic take-out container "cloche", the second grown without. gayla_lettuce_cloche.jpg With Cloche gayla_lettuce1.jpg Without Cloche Lettuce growing underneath a cloche Here it is with the cloche

Free Fence Idea

Free Twig Fence 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

Garden update

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

They Were Right

"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,

Today I went searching for farmers

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

Perennial Delight

I survived the UBC Botanical Gardens Perinneal Plant Sale and have lived to tell the tale. It could not possibly have been a lovelier day for it, and I had a fabulous time even if I did end up leaving with only half of the things on my

Green Minds

I need your help finding subjects for a project I'm starting this spring/summer. I'm looking to photograph gardeners in their gardens. What is a garden? My concept of a garden is very open-ended. It can be anything from a sprawling lush paradise to a single plant growing in a

Eek! Mother’s Day!

Well, here it is, the Friday before Mother's Day. This means that there is no way the card that I don't even have yet is going to make it to my mother's address by tomorrow. Being the procrastinator that I am makes these kinds of 'holidays'

Botany Photo of the Day

The cool kids at the UBC Botanical Gardens have started up a botany photo blog! The structure of the blog is a plant photo a day, with accompanying info, links and resources. They've already passed their 400th post so there's a bevvy of botanical info stuffed into

Gallery Exhibition

It's not at all related to gardening but I will be showing 20 of my photos in a group show alongside 3 other photographers entitled PHOTOGRAMMETRY opening this Friday at Harbourfront Centre here in Toronto. What: An active public space exhibition of urban photography. When: May 13-July 9 (Opening

Impact According to Ones and Zeroes

Free Soil Artists for Beyond Green utilizes the world wide web to educate users about the environmental impact of the fresh produce industry through cheerful graphics, friendly web design and interactive wells of knowledge.  At first glance, their animated leader of activism appears to be something straight out of Hello Kitty's universe, but scroll over the

Richter’s 2006

The mere mention of the word "Richter's" to my step-mom, Heather, this afternoon meant we were going on a short road trip! It took about a half hour for us to get there, but man was it worth it. Imagine all the plants Richter's brings to Canada Blooms

Musings on Plants

Today I was eyeing the plants at my grocery store. We all know not to ever expect much from the grocery store plants, as they're usually completely neglected, dry, and limp looking if not half (or totally) dead. However, the grocery store plants are the closest

Break Open Your Piggy Banks

I've been looking forward to the UBC Botanical Garden's Perennial sale since... well since last year when I missed it. It's coming up this Sunday here in Vancouver and I've been following Gayla's advice and preparing in advance as much as possible (must find granny cart before

Eating violets

Yesterday morning you would have found me sitting in my little front yard with a bowl and a pair of scissors. The 9 year olds riding their bikes up and down the street looked at me oddly, as I sat and one by one picked violets.
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