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Succulent Window Box 2006

Growing succulents in the windowbox on the fire escape portion of my rooftop garden has become a tradition -- most likely because they are just about the only plants that can survive the intense sun, heat, and drought. The deck is fully exposed to all sorts of

Gayla : June 7th, 2006 : 9 Comments: Posted in: Projects, Containers, Info, Gardening 101, Gayla's Gardens

Audible Flavor to Savor

I must admit, rather proudly actually, that I am hooked on National Public Radio. I am rarely impressed with top 40 radio, less impressed with the hip hop of late, and classic rock bores me to tears the moment Stairway to Heaven starts up.

Renee : June 7th, 2006 : 5 Comments: Posted in: Flowers, Reviews, Link

Healing with Dandelions

There are a few things I have an abundance of in my garden without trying. They may be familiar to you: dandelions, chickweed and horsetail. And while I curse a blue streak as I remove the horsetail, I can't help but think of my amazing friend Signy each

Emira : June 6th, 2006 : 1 Comment: Posted in: Veggies, Link

Herb Fair 2006

For the third year in a row, I attended the Harbourfront Herb Fair this weekend with some of the You Grow Girls. I think this was the best one yet. There were a few new vendors, some new samples to try (mmm, green tea), and as

Amy : June 5th, 2006 : No Comments: Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Link, Events

The Herb Fair is Coming, The Herb Fair is Coming

My favourite local plant-related event is back! What: Ontario Herbalist Society Annual Herb Fair Where: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto When: Sunday June 4, 2006. 11am-5:30pm If you'd like to meet for plant shopping, exchanging (bring your extra transplants and seeds), fellow herb loving geekery, and more myself and other YGGers

Gayla : June 1st, 2006 : 4 Comments: Posted in: Herbs, Link, Events

Promoting Composting

A little while ago I was wandering around the City of Vancouver's website, specifically the parks and engineering services sections. Seems a little bizzare, I know, but I then happened upon this website. Apparently the City of Vancouver in their effort to cut back waste,

Kelly : May 31st, 2006 : 9 Comments: Posted in: Places, Link, Info

Square Foot Gardening Review

This year, as I was faced with the task of starting up our veggie garden relatively from scratch, I did a bunch of research into garden design, veggie growing, etc and settled on trying the Square Foot method. I did this for two reasons really. The first

Emira : May 30th, 2006 : 10 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link

Roses are Fussy!

Who knew!?! But seriously. Our house came with a number of lovely roses of different varieties. Some traditional pink, very fragrant lovely ones in the front, two of what I believe are dog roses also in front beds and a very prolific climbing rose on the back fence. READ MORE...

Emira : May 29th, 2006 : 7 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Link, Pests & Disease

The Bubblegum Pansy

3 out of 3 taste testers confirm, this variety of "fancy" pansy tastes like bubble gum. We will even go so far as to identify the very specific flavour of Bazooka Joe gum that has been chewed for too long.

Gayla : May 29th, 2006 : 5 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Info

Purple Plum Radishes

I harvested my first batch of 'Purple Plum' radishes this evening from the rooftop garden. I'm growing them in an old wine crate alongside greens.

Wine Crate Filled with Greens and Radishes

Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly

Gayla : May 27th, 2006 : 8 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Veggies

A Tale of Two Lettuces

Two sets of lettuce seeds sown at the same time; the first grown under a plastic take-out container "cloche", the second grown without.

With Cloche

Without Cloche Lettuce growing underneath a cloche

Here it is with the cloche

Gayla : May 24th, 2006 : 10 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Containers, Seeds

They Were Right

"Invasive" does, in fact mean, well, "invasive". I'm always curious when I buy a new plant labelled as invasive, just how invasive can it be, really? That one little starter plant can't really get to be that big in one season, can it? Besides the usual mints,

Amy : May 21st, 2006 : 11 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Herbs, Link, Propagation

Perennial Delight

I survived the UBC Botanical Gardens Perinneal Plant Sale and have lived to tell the tale. It could not possibly have been a lovelier day for it, and I had a fabulous time even if I did end up leaving with only half of the things on my

Emira : May 16th, 2006 : 2 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Link, Events

Botany Photo of the Day

The cool kids at the UBC Botanical Gardens have started up a botany photo blog! The structure of the blog is a plant photo a day, with accompanying info, links and resources. They've already passed their 400th post so there's a bevvy of botanical info stuffed into

Emira : May 11th, 2006 : No Comments: Posted in: Link, Info

Richter’s 2006

The mere mention of the word "Richter's" to my step-mom, Heather, this afternoon meant we were going on a short road trip! It took about a half hour for us to get there, but man was it worth it. Imagine all the plants Richter's brings to Canada Blooms

Amy : May 9th, 2006 : 5 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Link

Eating violets

Yesterday morning you would have found me sitting in my little front yard with a bowl and a pair of scissors. The 9 year olds riding their bikes up and down the street looked at me oddly, as I sat and one by one picked violets.

Amanda : May 8th, 2006 : 2 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Link

Plant Shall Eat Plant

Make Herb Tea Fertilizer Did you know you can make liquid fertilizer for your plants using other plants? Sounds like floral cannibalism but it's not unlike compost when you think about it. Some plants are high in particular nutrients which can be extracted in the same way

Gayla : May 8th, 2006 : 13 Comments: Posted in: Projects, Info, Gardening 101, Foraging

Grow a Crate o’ Mache

I keep hearing that fancy, mega-expensive containers are one of the current trends in gardening this year. To which I reply with a big fat WHATEVER. You can keep your fancy-schmancy urns and leave all of that quality junk for me. I found this discarded

Gayla : May 4th, 2006 : 21 Comments: Posted in: Projects, Link, Containers, Gardening 101

Carrots on your rooftop

Yesterday I was perusing cnn.com for some news and came across a story about how rooftop gardening is becoming more popular here in the U.S. I know that in some European countries, especially Germany, this is quite common. I remember listening to a READ MORE...

Christina : April 30th, 2006 : 1 Comment: Posted in: Link, Info, Ecology

Plant Sales - Mark Your Calendars

I hate to be so Toronto-centric but there are a number of local and very good plant sales coming up that ya'll should know about. They're more bang for your buck, the experience is fun, and often times the haul is of better quality than your typical

Gayla : April 29th, 2006 : 4 Comments: Posted in: Seasonal, Link, Info, Gardening 101, Events

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