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‘Black Pear’ Tomato

Black Pear Tomato I would love to bring you more hard-core gardening experience type information but I am completely emersed in the harvest season and relishing the fruits of my labour. I just ate lunch -- a fried egg sandwich on spelt toast with

You get the bug then the bug gets you

They got me. I knew they would but I didn't want to pay attention to the warnings. I wanted to believe green meant go. I wanted the large, luscious leaves to be a sign of solidarity: me and them. I wanted the

Feed Them to Assorted Mammalian Creatures

Eggplant Carnage My first response is a loud string of expletives followed by a very long and drawn, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" tomato_bite.jpg 'Black Cherry' tomato with chunk extraction. Oh the humanity. A mysterious mammalian creature has been visiting the rooftop deck and taking nibbles out

Another Reason to Compost

I discovered another cost of garbage, both economical and environmental, while watching a segment on solar powered trash compactors on Daily Planet. I don't know why this didn't occur to me, but of course fuel is needed to operate the garbage trucks that haul garbage off

EcoForms

EcoForms (photo from EcoForms.com) The world of gardening containers is a sad carnival of ugly. I grow A LOT of plants, therefore requiring A LOT of pots. Unfortunately, the few stylish containers out there fall outside of a price range affordable to the

The Scented Garden

dahlia and lilyWith summer in full swing most of my garden work these days is about maintaining: watering, weeding and reseeding the odd head of lettuce. For the past week or so these chores have been particularly lovely as a few of

At last…

So after leaving my little garden back 600 KM away in Vancouver, I'm left wondering "what does it look like now? Has it been mowed over, or is it being nurtured?" Either way, I'll never know so it's time to drop it. I've secured myself a living domicile here

Gardening for Climate Change

"As weird weather and record-high temperatures continue to afflict much of the northern hemisphere, the natural flora around us — and what we can grow in our gardens — is slowly changing." Read the rest here, at the Toronto Star.

California Giants

I'm currently in Northern California for the Blogher Conference. I've been to these parts once before but the massiveness of the plants, most especially the invasives really stand out this time. Monster Nasturtiums I assumed this patch of renegade nasturtiums was a random fluke.

Deconstructing the Shed

Several years ago, London's Victoria and Albert Museum hosted The Other Flower Show. Ten renowned artists were invited to transform a museum-provided garden shed into a work of art. The result was an exhibit conceptually based around the method of gardening rather than the garden itself. The
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