Earlier this Fall I wrote about bringing your hot pepper plants indoors for overwintering. I've put together a short 2 minute clip showing how I dug up a 'Variegata' hot pepper plant from my community garden plot and transplanted it into 
I spotted bags of Colchicums, a fall-blooming bulb plant that looks a lot like crocus, while perusing the bulb section of my local garden shop a few weeks back. I've long admired the delicate alien beauty of 
While out on the Leslie Street Spit this past holiday weekend, I noticed that most of the tansy flower heads were turning black. I don't grow tansy in any of my gardens and have never observed this detail while out walking the railroad 
I took this photo of a field of Gaillardia growing on a hillside on the Leslie Spit back in July before The Worst Drought in Fifty Years took a hold and sent lots of plants into hiatus on a short term or 
I recently became an official card-carrying member of Seeds of Diversity, a move that was a long time coming. Okay, to be honest there is no actual membership card but there really should be -- I am a proud nerd who loves 
My favourite tool bag at my community garden plot, October 4, 2007. I forgot to bring a harvest bag and had to cram everything into the top of the tool bag. I'm currently harvesting lots of dandelion greens for boiling 
I spotted this lovely gold and dark purple seasonally appropriate container combo at Fiesta Gardens recently. While I am generally not a fan of the traditional seasonal mixed container, this one is a simple concept with a limited colour palette incorporating unusual plants 
Dear Fellow Humans of the Internet,
How do I remove black Sharpie from the surface of a white 'Lumina' pumpkin? Is there some kind of Home Economics meets McGuyver solution that I can employ that is also wholly non-toxic?
Thanks in advance,
Gayla
Dear Favourite Local Garden Centre,
Why 
What a pleasant surprise discovering that the 'Fatali' Hot Pepper I started from seed in the Spring of 2006 (1 1/2 years ago) finally produced those adorable little wrinkly peppers I couldn't wait to see. 'Fatali' is supposed to be one of the 
Break out the apple cider and make some treats, Fall is officially here.
And while the weather is happily still very late-summer-like the signs of autumn are everywhere, especially in the harvest. One of the farmers had pie pumpkins at the 
Panoramic of the Roof Garden July 21, 2007.
The following was found in my archives and is dated for July 14.
Lately, I have been receiving emails asking me to talk more about the community garden. I will admit that I am so horribly behind in writing about progress there that it's been difficult to know where to begin. So this morning 
I had a TV crew here for about 2 hours one scorching hot and humid afternoon in August shooting a segment on heirloom vegetables for a show called "Living in Toronto." There are other "Living ins" across Canada however the first 
With both the gardens and the Farmer's Market in abundance these days, it's become canning central around here. I'm on a personal mission to find a use for just about everything. Last weekend was the whole 50 pounds of tomatoes insanity 
Because I woke up this morning and said to myself, "Self, you do not have enough tomatoes. Must. Get. More. Between the bowls in the fridge, the bowls on the counter, the bowl that was just roasted, the bowl that was 
And earlier this evening we enjoyed Homemade Oven-roasted Heirloom Tomato Soup.
How To:
It's so simple you'll be asking yourself why you didn't make it before. Cook longer in the oven or heat it up afterwards in a pot and you've got sauce good 
Whomever says tomatoes can not and should not be grown in pots has not witnessed some of the surprising discoveries I have made over the years. While out biking yesterday afternoon, I happened upon this fully mature, volunteer cherry tomato growing up from 
The bottoms of all of the 'Purple Calabash' tomatoes are so bumpy and mishapen that they are morphing into cartoonish grumpy old man faces as they ripen and mature. Today a friend remarked that we are so programmed to accept perfectly smooth-shaped produce
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