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Stevie, Not Wonder

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved My epic trip has come to an end and I've been back in the freezing north for a few days. Brrr.... It's time now to begin processing the experience for myself as well as find a

Let’s Learn About the Historical Origins of Herbs, Fruits and Vegetables

originsoffruitandve.jpg Have you ever heard of sea cabbage, a wild cousin of the domesticated brassicas? Did you know that edible bananas are a primitive plant thought to be related to some of the first trees of the primeval forest? I didn't either until

Mutant Veggies at the Fall Fair (2009)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Extending the Harvest

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Rubble Gardens

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Experiments in Garlic Growing, Part 2

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

‘Gezahnte’ Tomato

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

‘Mini Purplette’ Onions

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Grow Great Grub

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Mid and Late-Season Planting

My latest Globe and Mail Microfarming article came out on Saturday. I've included the text below. My editor sent a photographer out this time so there are some pictures in the printed version not taken by me, and one of me planting arugula online.

Your Questions Answered: Watermelon Radish

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Handy Garden Tip: Hair Bobble Tomato Tie

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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