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Repurposed for the Garden: Flag Highlighter

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved When the folks behind this product sat down to envision a highlighter/post-it flag hybrid, I hardly think they knew they were creating a useful tool for gardeners. Students, office managers, and anal retentive note takers?

Repurposed for the Garden: Forceps

forceps_tool.jpg The other day, while shopping in the plant section of the Montreal Botanical Garden's gift store I came upon a long pair of forceps that a staff member must have forgotten, left sitting among the cacti. In that moment it occurred to me, aha,

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

Two Inspiring Cookbooks “Moro East” and “The Kitchen Diaries”

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved A few months back I decided not to do reviews anymore. Not that I did many in the first place, but the decision lifted a huge load off of my shoulders. It's the difference

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

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

The Annual, All That Money I Spent at the Parkdale Horticultural Society Plant Sale, 2009 Edition

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved The title says it all. Although, taking the Street Garden out of the picture this year significantly reduced the opportunity to spend more. I could completely disregard most flowers, bushes, or bedding plants, focusing instead of

Terrain at Styers

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I spent Arbor Day weekend in the countryside outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, speaking and conducting workshops at Terrain, the new garden center opened by the company that owns Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, among others.

Fiskars Telescoping 12-Foot Tree Pruner

Photo by Davin Risk All Rights Reserved Fiskars, makers of the famous orange-handled crafting scissors and assorted gardening pruners, among other things (turns out they make boats too. o-kay), recently sent me their Power Stroke Telescoping Pruning Stik 12-Foot Tree Pruner as a

What It Is

You all made some great guesses and invented some interesting products while trying to guess what was underneath the many miles of bubble wrap. I'll take the seed bomb launcher, the combine for a container wheat field, or the automatic garden weeder, please. One guess

What in the Heck is It?

A small and rather diminutive package arrived via Fed Ex this afternoon and we thought it was so absurd that it should be documented. I do not envy the person whose job it was to mummify this creature in bubble wrap. Care to venture a guess at what lurks beneath the packaging?

On My Gardening Bookshelves

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I recently did an interview with Mari Malcolm of the Amazon blog about the garden books I keep on my own bookshelf. It was a fun interview to do. I love, love, love books and

NEW Gardening Stuff!

gardeningfor_poopowered.jpg We've produced some new products for spring, both of which are a LONG time coming. I've been using "Gardening for the People" as the You Grow Girl slogan for years now (in case you're curious the first slogan used back in 2000 was

Free Back Issues of Organic Gardening

organicgardening_free.jpg Hell, yes. here's something to help you... or... ummm... me... get through the last days of winter. Eighteen back issues of Organic Gardening magazine, dating from 2005 to 2008 are available in their entirety for free viewing on Google books. I love it

The Impending Arrival of Seed Starting Season

Seed Starting Season Seed starting season is just around the corner. It happens every year and every year I yell to no one and everyone that I'm not ready and could I please just have another day or a week, but it comes anyways.

Handmade Gifts for Gardeners

Handmade Gifts for Gardeners I didn't intend to write another post about Holiday gifts this season but I realized that when I wrote the first post I left out the handmade items I found in my search. There's some really great stuff there

Gifts for Gardeners (To Make): Music to Garden To

Remember mixed tapes? The format is all but dead but I'm still keeping a tape player on hand and have hoarded a box full that were given as friendship letters from loved ones over a decade ago when it was still our favourite way to say we cared.

Holiday Gifts for Gardeners 2008

Holiday Gifts for Gardeners 2008 Please note that items are listed in U.S prices. 1. Botanicalls DIY Plant Twitter Kit - $99.00 How many of us really need this? I don't really need this. I know when to water my plants. All I have

Ella’s Botanicals - Healing Skin Salve

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved This little pot of Healing Skin Salve by Ella's Botanicals is currently saving my life. When I last wrote I was suffering from a bandage-related allergy but the actual tattoo wasn't too bad -- a

Gardening Mama

gardeningmama.jpg I just heard through my partner Davin that Taito, makers of the game "Cooking Mama" are about to release a similar version of the game called "Gardening Mama"! I rarely talk about products or get all covetous on this site
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