My Brother’s Garden
Hey Internet,
Remember when I helped my brother make a container garden on his balcony? Behold, it LIVES!
He's done really, really well for someone with 
Hey Internet,
Remember when I helped my brother make a container garden on his balcony? Behold, it LIVES!
He's done really, really well for someone with Underground Organics
I've been meaning to tell you about Underground Organics since buckets of their beautiful flowers first started showing up at my local weekly market, the Dufferin Grove Farmers Market, back in the spring.
Give Me Tomatoes
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 A Conversation: Gardening versus Porn
I am standing in front of a community garden taking photos when a youngish dude (I am not good at guesstimating age) holding a guitar and a large, open bottle of vodka approaches me.
Him: What are you doing?
Me: I'm taking pictures of these beans HELP. Need Bags
I'm working on a project that requires lots and lots of plastic shopping bags. There is only one small problem: I don't have any! Our family committed ourselves to eliminating the plastic shopping bag from our lives and we've done it. Yeah, I know, "Where's my big ass
First Casualty of the Season
... a 'Black Brandywine' tomato taken before its time was up by an unknown mammalian critter. This kind of thing is like a right-of-passage for food gardeners. Unless you're gardening in a sterile bubble, you have probably A Way to Stake: Wall O’ Mesh
I think this method is called, "Using Whatever's Available." It seems to work. I think it's kind of interesting and matches the hodge-podge style of the space although I don't think it would score points for curbside Things I Learned While Camping
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 The ReadyMade Gardening Challenge
They did it once a few years back and now they're doing it again. ReadyMade Mag is looking for contenders for their next Gardening Challenge. Here's the deal: You send ReadyMade photos of your current "garden" space and plans with innovative but And the Winner Is….
....'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
