The other day, while shopping in the plant section of the Montreal Botanical Garden's gift store I came upon a long pair of forceps that a staff member must have forgotten, left sitting among the cacti.
In that moment it occurred to me, aha, 
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 
A sad mess of dessicated branches soon to meet the compost bin is all that remains of my beloved 'Chinese Ornamental' hot pepper plant. I had grown fond of this little hot pepper plant and was 
This piece was originally published in The Globe & Mail over the weekend as a part of my series on kitchen gardening.
Regarding using burlap and burlap sacks: Just to be clear, do keep them 
The other day I happened upon a store that was selling four different types of passion fruit (passiflora) simultaneously. While I have tried some of these types separately before, finding four at once posed an excellent opportunity 
I recently wrote about the nutritional benefits of mulching and fertilizing with sea kelp. A commenter mentioned using comfrey, to which I replied that I am a big fan of comfrey as a fertilizer and 
I traveled to Rhode Island a few weeks ago on what was a whirlwind 24 hour (including transport time) trip to shoot a food gardening segment for the show Cultivating Life. I'll tell you 
Since The City of Toronto is week three into a city workers strike that includes garbage collection, it appears (see above) to be a very good time to reintroduce some resources on small space composting.
One sure-fire, easy 
These gooseberries aren't from my garden, although judging by the chewed up state of its leaves I'd hazard a guess that they have suffered a similar plight.
A week or two back, what was supposed to be 
The following article was printed over the weekend as a part of my food gardening series in The Globe & Mail. Summer has been a late arrival around these parts -- heavy rains and thunderstorms have 
Here's a little trick I employ when the holes in the bottom of a container are too big to hold the soil in at planting time.
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Strawberry pots have a bad reputation in the gardening world. They have poor water distribution and tend to dry out quickly. Sometimes theyre ugly. Or the pockets are too small. Or the pockets don't have 
I've been getting a lot of questions recently from people looking to start a community garden in their neighborhood. What I've included below is by no means a definitive guide, since there are lots of publications on 
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 
While writing the composting section for the new book, it occurred to me that my list in book one was rather incomplete and only covered some of the things we compost at home. There's a surprising 
Above image is the July entry from the 2008 You Grow Girl Calendar
I LOVE tomatoes. If I had to give up growing all other crops and choose just one I would probably choose tomatoes although basil 
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
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