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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

Variegated Cuban Oregano

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

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

Experiments in Garlic Growing

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

saturdayapril4_09.jpg 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

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

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

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

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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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