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Just in Time for the Weekend!

Okay, so not all of us are quite. . .ummm. . .physically prepared for the gardening season. One day out planting veggies equals 2 days inside vegging out, sore and slightly grumpy.   Come on, now.  You're thrifty, you're crafty, you're talented, you can do anything! (Except for move your sore tush.)

Paper Houseplants

Paper Houseplants As if gardening with living plants isn't enough to keep me occupied, I've recently become obsessed with plants crafted from paper. Download and construct your own garden of indoor houseplants, from the Epson Hong Kong site. Patterns include ivy, lucky

Phase 1 Complete

Phase 1 of "Project Deck Garden 2006" was enacted yesterday afternoon. It was inspired by a sunny day and a headache that wouldn't quit, which not surprisingly, was abated after a few hours in the fresh air. I won't bore you with the details as Phase

How to be greener

I work at a university that has finally decided to develop a "sustainability initiative." Because I am a librarian, I was asked to create a bibliography of resources to enhance our faculty's understanding of the concept and how they might incorporate it into their departments' curricula.

Pop Bottle Pots

Pop Bottle Pots So they're not very stylin', but these self-watering planters made from junked pop bottles are pretty handy for the well-intentioned but forgetful gardener. The bottom watering system keeps cuttings and seedlings on the right side of moist without

Don’t have room for a garden? Knit Your Own!

So besides being an avid gardening, I've an avid knitter. That means I'm always looking for cool new things to knit up. Today I got the idea in my head "hey, what about knitting plants??" So after a little searching I found these awesome knit plants that you can

Getting My Seeds Started, Right

This year will go down in history as the year I not only started seeds on time, organized all seeds by category (direct sow, indoor starts, and never-going-to-grow-it-so-trade-it-already), AND managed to draw up some kind of "plan" beyond casual (and quickly forgetten) mental lists. I rule.

Spring and fig advice

Since everyone else is doing their spring updates... Well, it's finally getting to the point where I'm not afraid it's going to snow again up on the hill, so time to think about getting back into the dirt! So far, I have renewed the old garden plot, though I'm

There’s Some Livin’ Going On

We've been experiencing unseasonably warm temperatures here in Toronto which have pushed me to get out and do some early-season garden work. I can't recall being this eager to get gardening but I suspect that I am always this excited, it's just the lapse of time between

The Lazy Gardener’s Seed Starting Chart

by Maggie Wang Calculate seed sowing and planting dates in seconds with this even handier version of the Handy Seed Starting Chart. Archived article here

Everything’s Gone Massive

The more I garden the more clearly I understand that gardening is a continuous learning process. The last few years have been excellent reminders of that. Last year's weather was unseasonably grey, cool, and wet and I had to adjust and strategise to work within those

A Slow July

Well, better late than never, here is my review of July--it consisted of more aphid infestation and finally planting the community garden plot (yay!) Just after ridding my herb boxes of the green aphids that sucked the life out of the dill, a new breed decided to take up

Did I Mention It’s Hot?

This has been the hottest, driest summer I can remember in a while. It has been raining around the perimeter of the city on a fairly regular basis, however it has been dry as a bone in my area since June 13! The weather has

Photos of My Rooftop Garden

As promised, a few photos of my rooftop garden in June. In the foreground you can see lemon cucumber, tomatillos, and peppers. gayla_deck_june20_05.jpg - A full view from underneath the gazebo - Facing north. - Facing west - Facing west (closer) - Sweet and

Waiting for the Rain

We've been experiencing a rather long bought of both extremely high temperatures and humidity levels plus drought here in the city. They've been getting rain and other strange weather patterns outside the city, but here in the core it's been nothing but massive heat and humidity with

Garden Update: Side Garden and Deck

This week has been a frenzy of cleaning, selecting plants and planting. As hard as I try, I've got perpetual dirt-under-the-nails. I should have thought to take a picture to show what I mean. gayla_garden_june05.jpg I haven't been up to much in

New garden: Dug!

So I finally got it done - yesterday admist the gloom of a rainy day, I dug my garden. It only took me about 1.5-2 hours, and it's about 4x3 feet (I figured I could always expand it a bit more if I needed to). I

And so it begins.

I took at stroll down to Granville Island (which isn't an island, nor is it on Granville St.), where I happened upon a gardening shop that I had never seen before. Besides all the cool garden supplies they already had a good stock of herb, veggie and

New year!

So I thought I'd finally make another update on this blog since I haven't done so in [insert embarrassing long ago date here]. It's a new year, and with that I'm planning on good things for my garden. Since moving to urban Vancouver I haven't had my little

No, Not My Precious!

A few weeks ago my beautiful blue jade corn was devastated by squirrels or baby raccoons. We're not sure which because both have been spotted on the deck since then. I've been so miserable about the loss I couldn't bring myself to write about it until
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