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Category: Seasonal

Seedy Saturdays

It is no secret that Seedy Saturday is by far my very favourite gardening event of the year. It's a great way to trade and purchase local, organic and heirloom seeds and support small gardening and seed suppliers. It is also a turning point in
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Gayla : February 19th, 2007 : 5 Comments
Posted in: Seasonal, Link, Seeds

Toasty Pot Coaster

Like many apartments mine boasts poorly insulated windows and baseboard electric heating. Yep, it's a keeper. With the weather being in the high My Ass is About to Fall Offs I've been scheming ingenius ways to keep the plants that are stuck enduring their fate on
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Gayla : February 16th, 2007 : 5 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Seasonal, Projects, Houseplants, Art/Craft

Is It Springtime Yet?

ophiopogon.jpg You know you're suffering some major mid-winter gardening itch when you set out to spend a few minutes on a sunny Sunday morning bathing orchids and watering African violets... and then the next thing you know 4 HOURS have passed!! In
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Gayla : February 11th, 2007 : 1 Comment
Posted in: Journal, Seasonal, Houseplants

Kitchen Birds

One of our cat's favourite things these days is to hover around the sliding glass door in our kitchen and chatter at the birds that feed outside that door. Although I didn't see any birds this morning, I could hear them outside the house somewhere, and Farley
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Amy : February 8th, 2007 : No Comments
Posted in: Journal, Seasonal

Red Mulch

It's really far too early to start getting supplies or thinking about tomatoes but with the weather outside being in the minus kill-me-nows I can't help but start peaking at the Lee Valley catalogue. I've already decided that I'm going to sacrifice a couple of my
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Gayla : February 8th, 2007 : 6 Comments
Posted in: Veggies, Seasonal, Projects, Link, Stuff

Grow-op Set-up

There have been some whispers in the Forums about starting seeds already. Some of the members of You Grow Girl live in areas where it's already the season for growing. Here in Southern Ontario, though, we're still experiencing snow and wind chill warnings. I've
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Amy : February 6th, 2007 : 11 Comments
Posted in: Seasonal, Seeds, Propagation

Catalogue Pressure

I gave into a seed catalogue yesterday. It was about time, really, with all the spring-like weather we've been facing. I'd been scanning catalogues bit by bit, but the bad graphics usually turn me off, and ones with stock images don't get a
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Renee : January 19th, 2007 : 4 Comments
Posted in: Veggies, Link, Seeds, Stuff, Winter

Winter Growth

The weather has been remarkably warm this winter, so far here in Ontario. Today I was out in the back yard for a few minutes. I just wanted to get some fresh air and it was sunny out and the yard is still fairly green.
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Amy : January 13th, 2007 : 2 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Herbs, Seasonal, Seeds, Propagation

Full Disclosure

I think it's important to go against the grain of traditional gardening magazines that focus on hyper-perfect fantasy garden porn and show you that there is no shame in a less-than-perfect garden. Here is a photo of the street garden taken just last week. Keeping up with the
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Gayla : January 10th, 2007 : 14 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Winter, Gayla's Gardens

Amateur Phenology

So. Ummmm. Who's a little freaked out by this crazy weather? They say Canada is totally backwards especially for an El Niño year with the west coast all wet and wild and the east unseasonably warm and snow-less. I've heard that things are also a
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Gayla : January 5th, 2007 : 7 Comments
Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Seasonal, Link, Info, Ecology
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