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The Eggling Experience: Update 1

Germination has taken place in both the Eggling and the Real Egg. The Real Egg showed a few sprouts about 6 hours before the Eggling. Sorry about the lack of photo to accompany this update however both seedlings are microscopic in size and I don't have a
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Gayla : November 9th, 2006 : 4 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Seeds, Stuff

Rockin out to Heavy Petal (Interview with Andrea Bellamy)

Andrea Bellamy, of the garden blog Heavy Petal, is hard core about getting dirty. She recently completed UBC’s Garden Design program, freelances as a garden designer and a garden writer, follows organic and sustainable principles, and attributes being her parents for instilling good gardening values in her.
Renee : November 8th, 2006 : 4 Comments
Posted in: Link, Gardeners

Mutant Veggies at the Fall Fair

A friend and I attended The Royal, Toronto's big city attempt at a country fall fair. I was unable to make it over the last few years and forgot how good it is. Fall fairs are like cultural anthropology that happens close to home. There's
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Gayla : November 6th, 2006 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Events

Fall Clean Up: Perfect Timing

This may not seem as remarkable to those of you currently outside of the South Coast of our Canadian shores, but I managed to get in a good three hours of garden clean up this weekend and not get soaking wet. This my friends, almost defies the laws
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Emira : November 6th, 2006 : No Comments
Posted in: Journal, Seasonal, Link

Container Garden Clean-up

Today was a dry and mild reprieve from the awful cold, wet and sometimes windy late fall weather we've been enduring here in Southern Ontario -- a good day to do some garden work. I have found frozen water in the trays underneath the containers on the
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Gayla : November 5th, 2006 : 4 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Seasonal, Containers, Info, Gardening 101

Recycled Garden + Contest

I've started a new contest on the site. The prizes are copies of Tsia Carson's book, "Craftivity." I tend to make contests that are simple to enter but thought it would be fun to do one that is more interactive. I love to
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Gayla : November 4th, 2006 : 1 Comment
Posted in: Link, Ecology, Art/Craft

Does Not Contain Spinach

nospinach.jpg Oh man. I don't know what to make of the level of paranoia we've reached about the recent spinach/ecoli outbreak that has compelled Epic Roots, grower and distributor of mache to go this far in disassociating their product from the maligned
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Gayla : November 3rd, 2006 : 3 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Link, Food

The Eggling Experiment

Eggling I know that this cute little product has made the rounds in the design and gardening world so I know I'm probably not showing you anything new. I have been resisting the charm of the Eggling since I first heard of them
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Gayla : November 1st, 2006 : 3 Comments
Posted in: Herbs, Reviews, Link, Stuff

Fall garden update

Sorry for being MIA the last little while! I got caught up with finishing my Masters over the summer months (what a way to spend the summer!), and am finally kind of getting things back in order now that it's finished... One of the things on
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Ariane : October 25th, 2006 : 4 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Seasonal, Pests & Disease

Falling in Love with Grassland

I am finally accepting the fact that winter is coming and I had better enjoy fall (despite all of this horrible rain) while it lasts. One of the gifts gardening has given me is the ability to look at the landscape and plantlife around me with new
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Gayla : October 25th, 2006 : 3 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Herbs, Seasonal, Info, Ecology, Photography
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