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Snack Foods for the Apocalypse

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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,

Let’s Make Tiny Vaginas, Each One Beautiful & Unique

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Experiments in Garlic Growing, Part 2

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

‘Gezahnte’ Tomato

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

‘Mini Purplette’ Onions

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Mid and Late-Season Planting

My latest Globe and Mail Microfarming article came out on Saturday. I've included the text below. My editor sent a photographer out this time so there are some pictures in the printed version not taken by me, and one of me planting arugula online.

Currant Worm on My Gooseberries

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

A Word to the Water-wise: Irrigate Well

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Roof Garden Tour (June 2009)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved 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

Hibiscus Drink

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved The rooftop garden is finally set up for outdoor living and the heat has suddenly cranked up, which means it's summer drink time. I've taken to making up bright red batches of roselle, aka sorrel (not

Together, Let’s Fight the Spread of Invasive Garlic Mustard (and Eat it Too)

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Another spring and a new crop of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is setting up camp for the season. We found a few small plants in the street garden cleanup last week and several at the community

My Brother’s Garden

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Hey Internet, Remember when I helped my brother make a container garden on his balcony? Behold, it LIVES! Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved He's done really, really well for someone with

Give Me Tomatoes

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Above image is the July entry from the 2008 You Grow Girl Calendar I LOVE tomatoes. If I had to give up growing all other crops and choose just one I would probably choose tomatoes although basil

Things I Learned While Camping

Photo by Davin Risk All Rights Reserved Homesteading -- the kind that involved living in tents and no machinery -- was terribly difficult. I'm sure of it. Of course I already knew this, camping merely drove that point home in a new way. Simple tasks

And the Winner Is….

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved ....'Beaver Lodge Slicer'. Although I can't be absolutely certain since I discovered some ripe 'Green Grape' tomatoes hidden beneath their foliage later that evening. We ate those straight-away before I could be bothered to get

Waiting for Potatoes

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved A lot of exciting things have been happening in the gardens these days. With summer fully underway I have been harvesting all sorts of goodies. There are new discoveries everyday. Yet none have garnered quite the reaction

Cherry Clafoutis

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I have a longer post about my trip to Columbus, Ohio coming up but until then a station break about cherry season. It's on! While I was away Davin went cherry picking just for me, bringing

Wild Front Garden

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Check out this wild front garden I came upon yesterday afternoon. On just a glance I can identify a couple of poppy varieties, calendula, bachelors buttons (aka cornflower), cosmos, and a host of attractive weeds. I just can't

Vegan Almond Strawberry Jellie

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved I have to admit that I made this dessert BEFORE realizing that it was red and white, the perfect Canada Day summer treat. Americans can add blueberries for July 4. I came up with the idea ages

Roof Garden, Slightly Less Chaos

Photo by Gayla Trail  All Rights Reserved Click the image to see full-size. This is a panoramic of the roof garden taken just this week. There are a lot more plants out there then I was able to get into a composite. Unfortunately
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