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Amy: Ontario, Canada

Bio: Amy Urquhart is a freelance editor, and gardener based in Bowmanville, Ontario. She has worked in the publishing industry for 6 years. When she's not handling seedlings or digging a new bed, she's reading, trying a new recipe, blogging, or renovating the home she shares with her husband, Graham and their cat, Farley.

Email: amy@assertagirl.com

URL: http://www.playinginthedirt.ca/

Rooting Begonias

This morning on my blog I wrote about how we're getting crowded out of our dining room by the sheer number of plants in there, so it seems only natural that the next thing I did this morning while drinking my coffee, and in my housecoat,

Amy : February 21st, 2007 : 1 Comment: Posted in: Projects, Houseplants, Info, Propagation, Gardening 101

$2 Gardening Porn

I want to talk about one of my favourite gardening books. It's called "New Kitchen Garden" by Adam Caplin. I bought it as a bargain book for $9.99 but in all honesty it might would have been worth the original price. (Holy moley, Chapter's

Amy : February 13th, 2007 : 1 Comment: Posted in: Reviews, Link

Kitchen Birds

One of our cat's favourite things these days is to hover around the sliding glass door in our kitchen and chatter at the birds that feed outside that door. Although I didn't see any birds this morning, I could hear them outside the house somewhere, and Farley

Amy : February 8th, 2007 : No Comments: Posted in: Journal, Seasonal

Grow-op Set-up

There have been some whispers in the Forums about starting seeds already. Some of the members of You Grow Girl live in areas where it's already the season for growing. Here in Southern Ontario, though, we're still experiencing snow and wind chill warnings. I've

Amy : February 6th, 2007 : 11 Comments: Posted in: Seasonal, Seeds, Propagation

Winter Growth

The weather has been remarkably warm this winter, so far here in Ontario. Today I was out in the back yard for a few minutes. I just wanted to get some fresh air and it was sunny out and the yard is still fairly green.

Amy : January 13th, 2007 : 2 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Seasonal, Seeds, Propagation

Community Input on Pesticide Use

The municipality where I live is posing a question to us, the residents: How can we develop "a program to preserve human health and environmental quality, at the same time respecting the residents of the Municipality of Clarington"? I love that the word "respect" appears in this question/statement. There

Amy : January 9th, 2007 : No Comments: Posted in: Places, Link, Ecology

Grinding Herbs

Today I got around to grinding up my dried herbs. Why? Because I found a great deal on a coffee bean grinder at Loblaws...$9.99! It worked really well. Each weekend lately I've been harvesting from the garden whatever edibles I can. I managed to bring

Amy : October 15th, 2006 : 7 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Seasonal, Link, Food

Canadian Organic Growers

My husband and I recently joined a local organic community garden, and were pleased to find when we paid our seasonal rate for the plot, that we had also acquired membership in Canagian Organic Growers--the national information network for organic gardeners, farmers and consumers. The local group meets

Amy : September 23rd, 2006 : No Comments: Posted in: Journal, Link, Ecology, Gardeners

Foraging in the City

This article in today's Toronto Star is interesting. It's about people harvesting from neglected or owner-less trees in the city. It made me think about an apple tree that is sitting off the side of the exit ramp I take every day on my way home from

Amy : September 17th, 2006 : 5 Comments: Posted in: Link, Fruit

Entering the Fall Fair

Last year we visited the Uxbridge Fall Fair and I especially enjoyed looking at all the fruits and vegetables that were entered into the fair. I'm thinking of entering this year. These are the categories I'm considering: Pepper - hot, 3 on a plate...Scotch Bonnets Pepper

Amy : August 28th, 2006 : 3 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link, Events

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