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Early Days at the Community Garden Plot

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Last fall I decided to participate in a national growing experiment called, The Great Canadian Garlic Collection, wherein hundreds, possibly thousands of gardening nerds are growing garlic, recording their results, and then pooling the data so

Thrifty Ugly Bucket Camo

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved The discussion around inexpensive containers for indeterminate tomato plants in a recent post has brought up a good point regarding how to conceal the clinical blandness of food industry buckets. The conversation in that post reminded

Winter is Cold, News at Eleven

Photo by Davin Risk Photo by Davin Risk Sigh. This view of my roof garden from the door feels a million miles away today. Remember summer? Yeah, me neither. If not for photographic evidence I would have to assume these so-called memories are in

Grow Where You Are Planted

Organic Gardening Magazine So I was gonna hold off on this one until it hit new stands but it looks like Organic Gardening Magazine let the cat out of the bag early and has published an article I wrote for the Feb 2008 issue

The Horribly Late Roof Garden Clean Up That Never Was 2007

I desperately need to clean up my rooftop garden. Desperately. Double desperately. It's horrible how long I've let it got this year really. The warmer Fall temperatures were wonderfully evil and I just went with it pretending that Fall would continue forever. I rewarded myself

Planting and Growing Garlic (Allium sativum)

garlic_hardneck.jpg Garlic Shown: Stiff-neck which tends to be hardy and stores well over the long term. Sitting down to write this, my first thoughts are to apologize for the slow down in updates recently. I consider writing to assure you that the slow down is

Windowsill Plants

The plants were so lovely in the window today on a sunny November afternoon. I could not help but grab a camera to capture the moment. Variegata Pepper (photo by Gayla Trail) This is 'Variegata' hot pepper, a gorgeous and edible heirloom variety that has READ MORE...

No Basil Left Behind

withbasilharvest.jpg Proudly cradling the basil harvested from my community garden plot. Varieties include: 'African Blue', 'Purple Ruffles', 'Sweet Basil', 'Genovese', 'Columnar', 'Spicy Globe', 'Mrs. Burns Lemon Basil', 'Dark Opal', and 'Pesto Perpetuo' (a variegated variety). I reluctantly harvested the remaining basil plants from my community garden

The Great Canadian Garlic Nerd Fest

garlic_great.jpg I recently became an official card-carrying member of Seeds of Diversity, a move that was a long time coming. Okay, to be honest there is no actual membership card but there really should be -- I am a proud nerd who loves

Inside My Tool Bag - October 2007

pinktoolbag.jpg My favourite tool bag at my community garden plot, October 4, 2007. I forgot to bring a harvest bag and had to cram everything into the top of the tool bag. I'm currently harvesting lots of dandelion greens for boiling

Rooftop Garden (July 2007)

1roofgarden_panoramic_jul07.jpg Panoramic of the Roof Garden July 21, 2007. The following was found in my archives and is dated for July 14.

At the Community Garden

1cg_aug07.jpg Lately, I have been receiving emails asking me to talk more about the community garden. I will admit that I am so horribly behind in writing about progress there that it's been difficult to know where to begin. So this morning

Living in Toronto - Growing Heirloom Vegetables

1mydeck_cbc.jpg I had a TV crew here for about 2 hours one scorching hot and humid afternoon in August shooting a segment on heirloom vegetables for a show called "Living in Toronto." There are other "Living ins" across Canada however the first

The Continuing Epic Saga of the Street Garden

Yesterday afternoon, while working on the garden, a woman stopped to chat and mentioned that she had seen my sad and pathetic sign (my words, not hers) and knew who had destroyed the day lilies. It was the dudes who change the advertising on the large

Easily Amused

tomato_purplecalabash.jpg The bottoms of all of the 'Purple Calabash' tomatoes are so bumpy and mishapen that they are morphing into cartoonish grumpy old man faces as they ripen and mature. Today a friend remarked that we are so programmed to accept perfectly smooth-shaped produce

Poised to Be the Best Tomato Harvest Yet

whitecat_tomatoes.jpg Aside from several handfuls of 'Whippersnapper' tomatoes that started ripening over a month ago there have been tomatoes here and there but not in the numbers we're starting to see on the roof and over at the community garden plot. Despite a

Food That Hardly Travels at All

rooftop_foodcontainers.jpg A friend pointed me to this opinion piece in the New York Times that looks at the Eat Local concept as a way to mark environmental impact in food production. The article describes a New Zealand study that challenges the assumption that

Mexican Sour Gherkin

mexicansourgherkin.jpg Adorably teeny tiny Mexican Sour Gherkins (Melothria scabra) are starting to pop up all over the vines I've got growing at my community garden plot. The fruit in the picture is about half and inch or so and should be approximately 1-2" when

Monster Vegetables

zucchini_hands.jpg I made a quick trip to my community garden plot yesterday where several large zucchinis and cucumbers were quickly expanding into over-sized monster vegetables. I had been gone for 6 days and Davin was unable to get into the garden with a poorly

‘Miniature White’ Cucumber & Pink Zinnias

july20_07.jpg ...Because I had to post something a little more optimistic. Both of these polaroids were taken this morning on my rooftop deck. The 'Miniature White' cucumber variety is a lot less yellow then as seen in this photo as the
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