You Grow Girl™

...or rather, they've finally moved *away* from the building. For about 2 months now, I've had trays of seedlings against the back of my house, all in various stages of hardening off. First it was the tomatoes, and then when I finally got all of those planted and/or

Thinking upon the last weekend of May, there are words that spring to my mind. Words like ?triumph? and ?omnipotent? and ?whupass?. For yes truly, as the phoenix doth rise from its ashes so too is my garden no longer a cover candidate for ?Crackhead Landscaping?. What

I know y'all are dying to know what happened to Chia Screech. I'm sad to say that he is now with the Big Chia in the sky. Sniff. It's my fault. I murdered him. I gave him too much water and he started

Hello, my name is Schleprock, and I have the amazing ability to effect major climatic shifts in the environment. All I have to do is decide to go nutty with tomato growing, start hundreds of plants from seed, nurture and coddle them until they're ready to go outside....and

I?ve decided June 1 is New Year?s Day at least when it comes to gardening. It certainly doesn?t make much sense to go with January 1. In June I can get outside, take some action and not indulge in any whimsy. For whimsy and wishful thinking have ruled the

Wow! It's been a long time! I guess a lot has happened in 6 months. Or maybe not since it is quite possible that I have forgotten what I wanted to write about. Anyway...we had a pretty mild winter and about 20 seconds of snow.

Usually around this time of year I just start buzzing with anticipation. Hell, usually I'd have my containers/plot ready, my seeds already being sprouted, and I'd be making my first trips to the greenhouse to get some early-blooming plants. This year, however, I find myself it a very

What's the first thing you do? For me it's pruning the roses. I know this should really be thought of as part of last year's gardening, but it's the first time-critical job that comes up after Christmas. Usually a couple of months

Last Saturday I attended the Seedy Saturday event here in Toronto. The turnout seemed to have grown since last year and of course so did my purchases. Where I will be gardening this year is up in the air so I have tried to hold back