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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

URL: http://www.yougrowgirl.com/book/

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First Sighting in the Wild & Ten Years!

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved It's a big week over here as my new book, "Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces" (I'm already an expert at saying the title super fast) hits bookstores TODAY! Except that we spotted

Fresh Coffee Bean

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Garden Tour: Erika’s Small Apartment of Small Plants

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Yesterday afternoon I was invited into the apartment of a fellow Parkdale resident to check out her collection of fascinating and unusual plants. The visit brought the plant junky in me out in full force. I went

Worm Food

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Sometimes, when I'm feeling too lazy to hand chop, I give dinner's assorted vegetable scraps a quick whiz in the food processor before feeding the gruel to the worms in my kitchen wormery. I liken

Cosmos Sulphureus at Scotts Head

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Annatto Pod

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Grow Great Grub: Twitter Giveaway

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Hey, guess what? My new book, "Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces" hits stores in less than a week! To commemorate its impending release, Clarkson Potter has agreed to do a pre-launch giveaway

Foodcycles

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Back in August 2009 my friend Laura asked me if I wanted to take a quick jaunt out to the burbs to take some pictures of the Foodcycles farm. At the time we had

Crown of Thorns

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First Seed Roundup for 2010

rareseeds_purplesmudge.jpg Photo of ‘Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge’ Tomato: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds If you've been reading this site over the years, you can probably make a pretty safe guess as to where I am right now in the areas of seed starting and garden planning

Experiencing Fresh Cacao: The Sequel

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Two years ago I wrote about my disappointing experience eating fresh cacao in Cuba. Cacao (Theobroma cacao) is the tree that chocolate comes from. The fruit is a big pod that forms directly on the trunk

Torch Ginger Flower

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Banana Flower Close-up

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This is How Bananas and Plantains Grow

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Giant Granadilla Flower

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David’s Orchid (Spathoglottis plicata)

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Standing in the Shadow of a Massive Euphorbia

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Can you believe the size of this thing? Me neither. I have not seen a euphorbia of this size before or since. This photo was taken at the Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Bathsheba, Barbados.

Green Golden Apple

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Cinnamon Tree

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A Swell Fencing and Privacy Screen Idea

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved While in St. Lucia I was given a tour of Jade Mountain eco resort. I'll save the interesting gardening and botanical design features for another day; however, take a look at this simple, yet elegant
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