Lotus in Bloom
I made my first visit to the Montreal Botanical Gardens about nine years ago. It was early August and the lotus flowers in both the Japanese Garden and the Chinese Garden
I made my first visit to the Montreal Botanical Gardens about nine years ago. It was early August and the lotus flowers in both the Japanese Garden and the Chinese Garden
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
Question: I am in South Mississippi and my Mother wants to know where you get the pink watermelon radish seed and how she can get some? - Betty
Hi Betty,
Watermelon radish are a fairly unknown winter radish that
I've never been able to determine why borage (Borago officinalis) flowers, which are typically blue, sometimes turn pink. Some books mention the possibility of pink and even white flowers but don't account for why they appear.
I don't
A friend gave me a pack of these "I Double Heart Jesus" hair bobbles years back and I've been trying to find an excuse to keep them ever since.
I lived the bulk of my life with
These gooseberries aren't from my garden, although judging by the chewed up state of its leaves I'd hazard a guess that they have suffered a similar plight.
A week or two back, what was supposed to be
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
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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
Yesterday, I found this variegated Cuban oregano plant for only a couple of bucks at a small parking lot nursery. Isn't it gorgeous?! I wish the internet had smell-o-vision and you could get a whiff of this | M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
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