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‘Gezahnte’ Tomato

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Behold, the first of the non-cherry, indeterminate tomatoes that has reached maturity for 2009. And it's a beauty. Incidentally, I've managed to grow several ruffled tomato varieties this year purely by happenstance. Well, that and

Mulching with Fresh Kelp

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

‘Mini Purplette’ Onions

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Every year I go a little nuts growing large crops of onions such as 'Egyptian Walking' over at my community garden plot. Onions grow easily in the ground, but they tend to take up a

A Word to the Water-wise: Irrigate Well

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Roof Garden Tour (June 2009)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Click the image to see full-size. I'm long overdue to present a mini roof garden tour this year, let alone a garden tour of any kind. As always I'm behind, which inevitably leads to thoughts that things

Handy Garden Tip: Pots with Big Holes

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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. READ MORE...

Somewhat Creepy Baby Doll Buggy with Mint

Photo by Davin Risk All Rights Reserved One of our weekend projects was turning this vintage doll buggy into a mint planter. The plants inside are, from left: 'Orange' mint and 'Ginger' mint. I bought the buggy last fall. It cost 5 bucks at

Growing an Edible Strawberry Pot

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Growing Food on a Windowsill - Microgreens

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Winter is slowly coming to an end around here and it is nearly time to start lettuce outdoors. Until then I've been growing and harvesting small batches of micro-sized greens on my windowsill as a way

Overwintering ‘Oregano’ Thyme

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Over the years I've made an experiment of trying out new plants to overwinter on my windowsills. These experiments keep me amused over the winter months and provide the first-hand experience with specific varieties required to

My Brother’s Garden

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Hey Internet, Remember when I helped my brother make a container garden on his balcony? Behold, it LIVES! Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved He's done really, really well for someone with

Unique Container Idea: Planter Cart

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I came upon this shopping cart planter the other day while riding my bike along College Street here in Toronto. The planter sits outside a restaurant located at the corner of College and Clinton, perched up high

Garbage Pickin’ and Other Cheap Garden Stuff

parkdalehortsale2_2008.jpg It is a good time of year. We can very nearly say with almost sort-of, closing in on possible certainty that there will be no more snow for a good 6 or 7 months, the plant sales are in full swing, the plant-specific

A Pleasing Combination

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I came upon this colour palette yesterday and had an instantaneous response to it. The pink flowers are magnolia and the red and chartreuse bush on the right is 'Goldflame' spirea (Spiraea x bumalda). Of

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

Your Questions Answered: Thrifty Containers for Tomatoes

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I've got a question on tomatoes. I've recently ordered about nine tomato plants. They're still kind of babies, but it turns out that they're indeterminates, not determinates like was expected. In the book it says that

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

Edible Fall Container Planting

falledibles_20072.jpg During the spring and summer months I grow indeterminant tomatoes (large, vine plants) in large garbage bins like this one purchased for $10 each a number of years ago at the local Ikea. The flat grey colour has faded significantly over the years but

Over-wintering Hot Peppers (Part 2)

variegata_pepper.jpg Earlier this Fall I wrote about bringing your hot pepper plants indoors for overwintering. I've put together a short 2 minute clip showing how I dug up a 'Variegata' hot pepper plant from my community garden plot and transplanted it into

Purple and Gold Fall Container

gold_purplecontainer.jpg I spotted this lovely gold and dark purple seasonally appropriate container combo at Fiesta Gardens recently. While I am generally not a fan of the traditional seasonal mixed container, this one is a simple concept with a limited colour palette incorporating unusual plants
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