Mutant Veggies at the Fall Fair (2009)
Turnout in the mutant vegetable competition at The Royal Winter Fair was disappointingly lackluster this year. I don't know if it was the poor weather this season, or a waning lack of interest in growing
Turnout in the mutant vegetable competition at The Royal Winter Fair was disappointingly lackluster this year. I don't know if it was the poor weather this season, or a waning lack of interest in growing
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
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
I like all sorts of gardens, no matter where they are made. Here are a few gardens, including a few edible plants, tucked into crumbling concrete crevices in a local alleyway (around Niagara St and Tecumseth
Let us turn our minds back four months (almost to the day by coincidence) to April of this year. Way back then, in a season that felt not so much unlike this one in many ways, what
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
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
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
As I mentioned earlier today it's been a L O N G year. Actually, it's been a long year and a half. Or two years. Where am I?
I've mentioned it briefly here and there but was Botanical Photography by Gayla Trail
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