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Category: Garden

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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.

Gayla : April 8th, 2006 : 4 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Projects, Info, Seeds

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

Ariane : April 7th, 2006 : 10 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Seasonal, Fruit, Gardening 101

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

Gayla : March 31st, 2006 : 8 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Herbs, Seasonal, Containers, Seeds, Bulbs, Gayla's Gardens

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

Gayla : March 31st, 2006 : No Comments: Posted in: Seeds, Propagation, Gardening 101, Spring

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

Gayla : August 23rd, 2005 : 8 Comments: Posted in: Containers, Pests & Disease, Gayla's Gardens

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

Ariane : August 9th, 2005 : 9 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Veggies, Seasonal, Pests & Disease

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

Gayla : July 11th, 2005 : 10 Comments: Posted in: Containers, Gayla's Gardens

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.

- A full view from underneath the gazebo - Facing north. - Facing west - Facing west (closer) - Sweet and

Gayla : June 21st, 2005 : 8 Comments: Posted in: Containers, Gayla's Gardens

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

Gayla : June 13th, 2005 : 2 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Gayla's Gardens

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.