Remember last year when I invited local site readers to come out and grow seedlings together in a local greenhouse? Well, it's seed starting season and the greenhouse has kindly offered us some space again 
Click title to see full photo. 
Click title to see full photo. 
Click title to see full photo. 
A visit to Erika's apartment a month back has inspired a new sense of excitement about my own windowsills. The morning after the tour, we experienced a rare winter treat here in Toronto: sunshine! 
Click title to see full photo. 
We popped over to the community garden yesterday afternoon with a frozen pail of compost. I thought I would take some pictures so you can see what it looks like in the middle of winter.
As you can 
Yesterday afternoon I was invited into the apartment of a fellow Parkdale resident to check out her collection of fascinating and unusual plants. The visit brought the plant junky in me out in full force. I went 
Photo of ‘Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge’ Tomato: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
If you've been reading this site over the years, you can probably make a pretty safe guess as to where I am right now in the areas of seed starting and garden planning 
Our off-time on a recent trip to New York City was spent wandering around soaking everything in and taking pictures. I didn't go out of my way to visit specific gardens or community gardens this time, 
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 
This is how I see canning: making snack foods for the apocalypse. Because in truth, with the exception of the plain tomato jars and sauces, many of the items I put up tend to be condiments, pickles, 
And make our own edible version of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party!
There has been a long and harried internal debate raging in my brain for days over that title. I have avoided making this post, worried 
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 
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 
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 
These gooseberries aren't from my garden, although judging by the chewed up state of its leaves I'd hazard a guess that they have suffered a similar plight.
A week or two back, what was supposed to be 
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 
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
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| « Feb | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | 31 | ||||
Make a donation to You Grow Girl. Any amount will be much appreciated.
