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Worm Food
Sometimes, when I'm feeling too lazy to hand chop, I give dinner's assorted vegetable scraps a quick whiz in the food processor before feeding the gruel to the worms in my kitchen wormery. I liken Wasp Invasion!
I haven't noticed it to be quite the exaggerated horror film some are saying, but apparently Toronto is in the midst of a yellow jacket population explosion. The increase is thought to be the result of the Slugs and Snails: A Paradox
Why is it that I can crush a slug underfoot, albeit with some trepidation? But when it comes to snails, forget it. They are carefully transferred to another area away from my lettuce and kale.
I'll let a City Chickens!
I went to visit some city chickens yesterday afternoon. Chickens! I have a fascination with chickens, but alas, it is not legal to keep them in Toronto. And even if it were legal, I do Your Questions Answered: Tomato Thieves
Question: We always love your articles and website. Keep it up!!
In this past weekend article on tomatoes, you didn’t answer the burning question…what did your brother do about the squirrels??????? They have already chomped the small tomatoes that were forming on our one plant and I know
Baby Spiders!
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. Mantis Watch 2009: HATCHED!
I woke up this morning to the news that the mantids had begun hatching from the egg case (aka ootheca) and were filling up that little bag.
I honestly didn't think it was going Mantis Watch 2009
As previously mentioned, I bought a praying mantis egg case at the Parkdale Horticultural Society Plant Sale the other day.
It's not exactly the most effective form of pest prevention in the garden for a few reasons: Shifting My Worm Bin
My composting worms are housed in an average-sized bin that we keep in the hallway just outside our apartment door. This spot next to the recycling bin is great three out of four seasons of the Worms for Composting
I ordered a 1/2 pound of red wiggler worms back in May but the sellers have experienced such a boom in orders this year that they were unable to fill my order until July. Encouraging don't you Assorted and Sundry for 08/05/02
Toronto Backyard Chickens Petition - Long-term readers of the site will know I have a fixation with chickens. Keeping chickens is pretty high up on my life to-do list but there are several key issues currently blocking this life goal. 1. I don't have a
Operation Garden Terrorism
The epic saga of sadness and destruction now dubbed Operation Garden Terrorism continues. Today I went outside to discover a patch of plants had been crushed along with two sections of the bamboo fence that we built in the early spring. Starling Co-Parenting
About a week or two ago all of the baby starlings that live in our eavesdrop fell out of the nest -- the nest that was built on the severed and torn parts of many of my tomato plants including the 'Zapotec Pink Pleated' A Public Apology to the Opposum
So.... ummm... how's it going? [Hides metaphorical tail between legs.] Right. So turns out it most likely, for sure, probably, maybe wasn't you doing all that horrible damage to the tomato plants, basil, nasturtiums, pansies, tansy, succulents, etc a few weeks back. Turns
Versus the Possum, Round Two
The ongoing battle of roof garden versus the possom continues. I think I'm making some headway.
Oh what, you can't get past my genius chair barrier* to those delicious plants? Boo hoo.
Gives me the stink eye.
Oh what, you can't get past my genius chair barrier* to those delicious plants? Boo hoo.
Gives me the stink eye. Versus the Possum, Round One
Sure I lost an eggplant last year but I don't even like eggplants and you left the rest of the plants untouched unlike the raccoons that just plow through like tanks and tear everything to shreds so it was like, Okay, no problem, we can live together.
Qualifies as the Strangest Thing Buried By a Squirrel
I spent Saturday doing hardcore gardening work including prepping the fire-escape windowboxes for planting. On Sunday afternoon I purchased a few plants for the boxes and decided to get them planted up rather than wait for additional plants. Check out what I found buried by our
Your Questions Answered: Ladybug Confusion
Question: I just saw my first yellow and black ladybug! I live in Germany, but previously lived in North Carolina. Are the yellow and black ladybugs more common in Europe?
- Kayla
Answer: Yes, yellow and black ladybugs are native to Europe but can be found (although less
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