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First Harvest at the Community Garden

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved We popped over for a quick mini-visit to the community garden yesterday afternoon. I wanted to bring some kitchen scraps to add to the compost bin on our way to have lunch and run errands.

Touching Tomatoes

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved They say that lightly brushing your hands against tomato leaves stimulates a growth hormone in the plant encouraging radial (aka stockier) growth. I'm still searching for a study that supports this but I chose to believe

Thrifty Ugly Bucket Camo

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved The discussion around inexpensive containers for indeterminate tomato plants in a recent post has brought up a good point regarding how to conceal the clinical blandness of food industry buckets. The conversation in that post reminded

Your Questions Answered: Thrifty Containers for Tomatoes

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I've got a question on tomatoes. I've recently ordered about nine tomato plants. They're still kind of babies, but it turns out that they're indeterminates, not determinates like was expected. In the book it says that

Seeds Brighten a Dull Day

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Just when I thought today couldn't get any worse and that I might waste the day away wallowing in a pity party for one, seeds arrive in the mail. It's amazing how such a small thing

First Look at a New Tomato

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved And the winner in the race to germination is... 'Purple Calabash' Tomato. Because I know some of you will ask, I will just go ahead and clarify that the drops of water on the leaves

Seedy Saturday Haul 2008

Photo by Gayla Trail Another Seedy Saturday Toronto has come and gone and like last year I managed, with great effort, to make it around to a few booths and pick up some seeds. The event was more packed than ever this

In the Beginning, a Seed

Photo by Gayla Trail This is the first package of seeds I have purchased for the 2008 growing season. Of course I have acquired other seeds via trades but this was the first I bought. It has a decidedly Canadian sounding name, no?

Windowsill Plants

The plants were so lovely in the window today on a sunny November afternoon. I could not help but grab a camera to capture the moment. Variegata Pepper (photo by Gayla Trail) This is 'Variegata' hot pepper, a gorgeous and edible heirloom variety that has READ MORE...

Kokopelli Seed Foundation

kokopelli_cover.jpg I want this book! We took a week off last month, staying at the home of an avid tomato gardener whose name I have not sought permission to reveal (and therefore will not). While there she introduced me to the Kokopelli
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