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Baby Spiders!

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved It's like the wild animal kingdom around here lately. We discovered dozens of these newly hatched garden spiders (Argiope aurantia) crawling all over the sides of the compost bin at the community garden the other day.

Transplant Trade 2009

transplanttrade09.jpg I attended a transplant trade this weekend. I arrived at the trade with two trays of plants and returned home with only one. Success! I exercised a lot of restraint this time around and did not succumb to any descriptions of beautiful tomatoes

Gardening Lessons My Grandmother Taught Me (Unintentionally)

scylla_40.jpg I wrote this piece back in February for The Guardian UK, and am now posting it here in its entirety as promised. You can read my preface to it here. My gardener’s story is atypical. There were no childhood summers frolicking in the garden of a rosy-cheeked matriarch eager to pass on a passion for growing things; however, there was, in fact, a grandmother—a woman who for better or worse certainly left an impression. A woman who taught me about gardening without meaning to, possibly even in spite of herself.

Untitled (A Darker Side to Gardening)

Over the weekend, I decided to read Jamaica Kincaid's "The Autobiography of My Mother" for the second time. Opening the first page, I notice a note scrawled into the top right hand corner in my own handwriting, "pg 143." Turning to page 143 I find

Terrain at Styers

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I spent Arbor Day weekend in the countryside outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, speaking and conducting workshops at Terrain, the new garden center opened by the company that owns Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, among others.

Fiskars Telescoping 12-Foot Tree Pruner

Photo by Davin Risk All Rights Reserved Fiskars, makers of the famous orange-handled crafting scissors and assorted gardening pruners, among other things (turns out they make boats too. o-kay), recently sent me their Power Stroke Telescoping Pruning Stik 12-Foot Tree Pruner as a

Event: Terrain at Styer’s

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Hello Pennsylvania! I'm going to be giving two workshops and a presentation this coming Earth Day/Arbor Day Weekend at Terrain at Styer's in Glen Mills, PA. Where: Terrain at Styer's 914 Baltimore Pike, Glen Mills, PA,

Together, Let’s Fight the Spread of Invasive Garlic Mustard (and Eat it Too)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Another spring and a new crop of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is setting up camp for the season. We found a few small plants in the street garden cleanup last week and several at the community

She Never Met a Cactus She Didn’t Like

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved The title is a quote from this video. No truer words have been spoken. Spring must be in the air because I bought two cactus plants this week. The first is some kind of barrel

You Grow Girl Seedling Growing Collective

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Hey Toronto! Let's grow some seedlings together! I posted about this in the forums but wanted to push it here as well since seed starting season in Toronto is happening NOW. So here's the deal: I've managed to
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