A Word to the Water-wise: Irrigate Well
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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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)
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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 Variegated Cuban Oregano
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 Your Questions Answered: Tomato Thieves
Question: We always love your articles and website. Keep it up!!
In this past weekend article on tomatoes, you didn’t answer the burning question…what did your brother do about the squirrels??????? They have already chomped the small tomatoes that were forming on our one plant and I know
Handy Garden Tip: Pots with Big Holes
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
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
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 Experiments in Garlic Growing
Before I begin, a confession: I did not plant garlic last fall. You are horrified. You are storming away from this website in horror.
Allow me to explain / make excuses. I managed to harvest Together, Let’s Fight the Spread of Invasive Garlic Mustard (and Eat it Too)
Another spring and a new crop of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is setting up camp for the season. We found a few small plants in the street garden cleanup last week and several at the community Welcome and Seeds of Diversity 25th Anniversary
Hello fellow gardeners. If you're coming from today's Globe and Mail article, the full story about the tobacco gardener is here. If you'd like seeds, I've got loads (I'm not going to grow them) and am happy to pass them on She Never Met a Cactus She Didn’t Like
The title is a quote from this video. No truer words have been spoken.
Spring must be in the air because I bought two cactus plants this week. The first is some kind of barrel Growing Food on a Windowsill - Microgreens
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 Lucha Libre Fighter Seed Collection
This should be the last list for the season, unless something else catches my eye. It's time now to shift to the serious work of getting my seeds started!
'Ancho Gigantea' Hot Pepper
'Negro Azteca' Tomato
'Aztec 10' Tomato - An entire crew of luchadores.
'Fireball' Tomato
'Texas Wild' Tomato
'Ring of Fire'
Seedy Saturday Haul 2009
Well, another Seedy Saturday has come and gone. And really, I could just cut and paste last year's post, or the one before that, or the one before that, because frankly, it's pretty much the same Olde Thymey Seed Collection
Having been through an awful lot of seed catalogues I can say with a certain authority that the people who create varieties love an olde thymey name. Either that or they name the varieties after themselves or a great, great aunt and it just works out that way.
Filed Under “UMMMMM… HUH?” Seed Collection
Why is it always the bush beans and the tomatoes with the most absurd names? Some variety names are just plain confusing. And weird. Possibly a little bit embarrassing.
'Kung Poo' Sweet Pepper - The description reads, "Very red. Nice flavour." And they got 'Kung Poo' from that?
'Black
All of the Double Entendres
I'm thinking about picking myself up some 'Hookers'.... sweet corn that is. Har!
No, but seriously. While perusing the Seeds of Diversity 2009 Member Seed Directory I stumbled upon 'Hookers' Sweet Corn, a variety that is described as great for containers and small spaces with kernels that
Seed Organizing
Miracle of miracles! Not only have I managed to begin my seed purchasing and acquiring process on time this year but I also spent a few hours the other night organizing them all. Ironic that the Getting My Seeds Lined Up in a Row
It feels like I'm going to be able to be more forthcoming with the garden projects I've got going on this year so I thought I would take advantage of the freedom by posting all the Fondling the Beans
Whenever I get a new pack of bean seeds I am always immediately compelled to open up the packet and inspect the beans. I used to play out this ritual with all seeds but years of seed
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