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Over-wintering Hot Peppers (Part 2)

variegata_pepper.jpg 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

YGG Warm Winter Wear Drive 2007

What: Knit or crochet up beautiful, warm winter gear for The Redwood Shelter for Abused Women. While I know many of you are from all over the globe we've decided to continue to support a Toronto-based organization again because 1. They are doing fantastic work and 2.

Forcing and Growing Colchicums - Freaky Bulbs That Are Actually Corms

Colchicum - Photo by Gayla Trail 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

Blackened Tansy Seed Heads

Tansy 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

Lessons Learned from an Unseasonably Warm Autumn

gallardia.jpg 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

The Great Canadian Garlic Nerd Fest

garlic_great.jpg 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

Inside My Tool Bag - October 2007

pinktoolbag.jpg 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

Purple and Gold Fall Container

gold_purplecontainer.jpg 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

The White Pumpkin | Black Sharpie Debacle

luminapumpkin.jpg 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

Over-wintering Hot Peppers

fatalipepper.jpg 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

Okay, NOW It’s Fall

asters.jpg 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

Summer is NOT Over, Yet. Agreed?

They say that the Autumnal Equinox falls on September 23rd this year -- according to my calculations that's five full days away yet everywhere I go people are talking about Fall like it's here already. It's like as soon as Labour Day is past we head

Rooftop Garden (July 2007)

1roofgarden_panoramic_jul07.jpg Panoramic of the Roof Garden July 21, 2007. The following was found in my archives and is dated for July 14.

At the Community Garden

1cg_aug07.jpg 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

Living in Toronto - Growing Heirloom Vegetables

1mydeck_cbc.jpg 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

Making Low-Sugar Pepper Jelly

pepperjelly.jpg 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

This is What 50 Pounds of Tomatoes Looks Like

50pounds.jpg 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

Is There Anything Else?

tomatoes_shadow.jpg 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

From Out of a Crack… Behold, a Tomato

tomatoes_crack_wool_sm.jpg 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

Easily Amused

tomato_purplecalabash.jpg 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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