Gayla: Toronto, Canada
Bio: Gayla is the founder of this site and the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening. She splits her gardening time between a rooftop deck, a community garden plot, and a formerly barren patch of public land on a busy urban corner.
Email: gayla@yougrowgirl.com
Repurposed for the Garden: Forceps
The other day, while shopping in the plant section of the Montreal Botanical Garden's gift store I came upon a long pair of forceps that a staff member must have forgotten, left sitting among the cacti.
In that moment it occurred to me, aha, Caladium ‘Thai Beauty’
Click title to see full photo. February at the Community Garden
We popped over to the community garden yesterday afternoon with a frozen pail of compost. I thought I would take some pictures so you can see what it looks like in the middle of winter.
As you can Upcoming Grow Great Grub Events in Toronto
I've got a very busy week ahead. The best gardening event of the season, Seedy Saturday, is taking place this coming Sunday, February 21st followed by the Grow Great Grub Book Launch Party on February 24th.
Let's start with Seedy Saturday, which is held on a Sunday
Field Trip to Richters Herbs
Last Friday, a friend with a car (THANK YOU JOHN, I hearby bequeath my first born to you. The cat is also an option.) drove Davin, myself, and another friend on a field trip to READ MORE...Grow Great Grub Book Giveaway Winners
Winners of my new book Grow Great Grub have been selected using a random # generator and they are:
Gina, who is inspired by "...The heirloom tomatoes at the San Francisco farmers market: 10th Annual Montreal Seed Fair
I hear that snowstorms have hit many of you, and that a bunch of snow is set to dump all over my region sometime late this week. What better time to get excited about seedstarting?
This weekend marks Montreal's 10th Annual Seed Fair (aka Seedy Saturday & Sunday). It's
Caladium in the Lawn
You know, I've never much cared for caladium. They've always been a "whatever" plant in my book, a humdrum bit of foliage most often seen crammed into decorative baskets and seasonal greenhouse exhibits. Who cares? (Perhaps This Week’s Inspiration
Yesterday I posed the question, What is inspiring your edible garden this year? I think it is only fair that I join in and divulge my current inspirations for the 2010 growing season.
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