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Winter is Cold, News at Eleven

Photo by Davin Risk Photo by Davin Risk Sigh. This view of my roof garden from the door feels a million miles away today. Remember summer? Yeah, me neither. If not for photographic evidence I would have to assume these so-called memories are in

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

Poised to Be the Best Tomato Harvest Yet

whitecat_tomatoes.jpg Aside from several handfuls of 'Whippersnapper' tomatoes that started ripening over a month ago there have been tomatoes here and there but not in the numbers we're starting to see on the roof and over at the community garden plot. Despite a
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