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Growing More-erer Food

Because I am afflicted with the disease commonly known as "Can't-Walk-Past-Plants, Most-Especially-Plants-on-Sale"-itis and because an entire kitchen garden that was non-existent a few days ago doesn't seem to be enough today; I done went and bought me some pathetic-looking transplants. But wait, they were only fifty cents!
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Gayla : July 11th, 2006 : 7 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Veggies, Seasonal, Gardening 101, Gayla's Gardens

Project “Grow More Food”

It's time for me to face the cold, hard truth; my plot at The Parkdale Community Beer Garden is officially crap for growing veggies. With every new year I have found that while my soil continues to improve, the light on my tiny plot has been slowly
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Gayla : July 9th, 2006 : 6 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Projects, Seeds, Summer, Gayla's Gardens

Versus the Squirrels (Part 2)

Well it turns out that the squirrels just up and left of their own accord. I have no idea why they would want to leave considering the cornucopia of delights waiting just outside their front door, but I'm not about to complain. And with their
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Gayla : July 7th, 2006 : 1 Comment
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Seasonal, Containers

Abandoning the Plot

Yesterday as I looked out on my little garden and picked out the weeds, it occured to me that I won't get to see the fruits of my labour this year. In about three weeks I'll be gone, off to another city. The finalization of this happened only
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Kelly : June 24th, 2006 : 8 Comments
Posted in: Journal

Growing Hard Beans

Last week, said friend and I were having a drink and discussing the ups and downs of local eating. He happens to be something of a literal expert on the subject and is a true wealth of info on all foodstuffs local. In my dream
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Emira : June 22nd, 2006 : 5 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link, Seeds

Seed Ratios

As I've mentioned before I've taken the Square Foot Garden approach to my veggie garden this year, and am so far growing and harvesting a fair crop of our most regularly consumed veggies. I've been taking advantage of the very mild climate of the West Coast here and
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Emira : June 19th, 2006 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link, Seeds

Herb Fair 2006

For the third year in a row, I attended the Harbourfront Herb Fair this weekend with some of the You Grow Girls. I think this was the best one yet. There were a few new vendors, some new samples to try (mmm, green tea), and as
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Amy : June 5th, 2006 : No Comments
Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Link, Events

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
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Emira : May 30th, 2006 : 10 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link

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...
Emira : May 29th, 2006 : 7 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Link, Pests & Disease

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.
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Gayla : May 29th, 2006 : 5 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Info
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