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Category: Veggies

Seed Ratios

As I've mentioned before I've taken the Square Foot Garden approach to my veggie garden this year, and am so far growing and harvesting a fair crop of our most regularly consumed veggies. I've been taking advantage of the very mild climate of the West Coast here and
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Emira : June 19th, 2006 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link, Seeds

Healing with Dandelions

There are a few things I have an abundance of in my garden without trying. They may be familiar to you: dandelions, chickweed and horsetail. And while I curse a blue streak as I remove the horsetail, I can't help but think of my amazing friend Signy each
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Emira : June 6th, 2006 : 1 Comment
Posted in: Veggies, Link

Square Foot Gardening Review

This year, as I was faced with the task of starting up our veggie garden relatively from scratch, I did a bunch of research into garden design, veggie growing, etc and settled on trying the Square Foot method. I did this for two reasons really. The first
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Emira : May 30th, 2006 : 10 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Link

Purple Plum Radishes

Purple Plum Radish I harvested my first batch of 'Purple Plum' radishes this evening from the rooftop garden. I'm growing them in an old wine crate alongside greens. Wine Crate Filled with Greens and Radishes Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly
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Gayla : May 27th, 2006 : 8 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies

A Tale of Two Lettuces

Two sets of lettuce seeds sown at the same time; the first grown under a plastic take-out container "cloche", the second grown without. gayla_lettuce_cloche.jpg With Cloche gayla_lettuce1.jpg Without Cloche Lettuce growing underneath a cloche Here it is with the cloche
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Gayla : May 24th, 2006 : 10 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Containers, Seeds

Phase 1 Complete

Phase 1 of "Project Deck Garden 2006" was enacted yesterday afternoon. It was inspired by a sunny day and a headache that wouldn't quit, which not surprisingly, was abated after a few hours in the fresh air. I won't bore you with the details as Phase
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Gayla : April 19th, 2006 : 15 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Veggies, Seasonal, Containers, Seeds, Gayla's Gardens

Getting My Seeds Started, Right

This year will go down in history as the year I not only started seeds on time, organized all seeds by category (direct sow, indoor starts, and never-going-to-grow-it-so-trade-it-already), AND managed to draw up some kind of "plan" beyond casual (and quickly forgetten) mental lists. I rule.
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Gayla : April 8th, 2006 : 4 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Projects, Info, Seeds

Seedy Saturday 2006

I spent the day selling t-shirts and books at the Toronto Seedy Saturday event this weekend. It really is growing bigger and better every year (see a pic here). The aisles were packed with excited gardeners from 10 am on and I got to
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Gayla : March 19th, 2006 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Seasonal, Seeds

The Problem with Seedlings

Uh oh, now I worry that I’ll be giving them a complex. “Problem children? She’s calling us PROBLEMS?? Oh, we’ll show HER problems….grumble…” Oh yes, the seedlings have minds of their own, have no doubt about that. And there’s the crux of the matter….the seedlings are a hard
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Tasha : March 13th, 2006 : 6 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Veggies, Seeds, Fruit

End of summer wrap-up

Hey everyone! Hope the rest of your summer has been going well! As you may or may not recall, things got off to an incredibly slow start this year due to all the rain that we got out west. But, as it's better late than
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Ariane : September 11th, 2005 : 13 Comments
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