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Click title to see full photo. Repurposed for the Garden: Forceps
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, February at the Community Garden
We popped over to the community garden yesterday afternoon with a frozen pail of compost. I thought I would take some pictures so you can see what it looks like in the middle of winter.
As you can 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 A Swell Fencing and Privacy Screen Idea
While in St. Lucia I was given a tour of Jade Mountain eco resort. I'll save the interesting gardening and botanical design features for another day; however, take a look at this simple, yet elegant Letting Go
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 Random Junk Found in the Street Garden Cleanup (2009)
This isn't all of it, just some of the stranger items.
Interestingly enough, the year I decide to give up on the garden is the year Operation Garden Terrorism seems to have come to a halt. Or maybe I just didn't notice the damage Extending the Harvest
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 Fruits of Passion
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 Innocence Lost
Remember a few months back when I said something like, "Let's stop using war mongering language against the critters?"
I can't locate it on the site, but I know I said it. Somewhere. To someone. Was it you?
That 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 Special Order for Comfrey
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 Mulching with Fresh Kelp
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 Mid and Late-Season Planting
My latest Globe and Mail Microfarming article came out on Saturday. I've included the text below.
My editor sent a photographer out this time so there are some pictures in the printed version not taken by me, and one of me planting arugula online.
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 How to Compost and Reduce Waste
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 Handy Garden Tip: Hair Bobble Tomato Tie
A friend gave me a pack of these "I Double Heart Jesus" hair bobbles years back and I've been trying to find an excuse to keep them ever since.
I lived the bulk of my life with Currant Worm on My Gooseberries
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 A Word to the Water-wise: Irrigate Well
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 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
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