Workshops, parties, presentations, and other garden events related to You Grow Girl or Gayla Trail.
UPDATE: You can see the entire conversation over here. 1 hour to talk herbs and edible flowers in the garden and kitchen: growing them, using them, enjoying them. When: Friday, June 3, 2016. 1-2pm EST Where: Facebook.com/yougrowgirl Afterward, I will choose one commenter at random to receive a copy of my book, Easy Growing: Organic …
Next Saturday I’ll be giving a presentation at Plant World in Etobicoke, Ontario (in the suburbs of Toronto) on the topic of Growing Beautiful and Edible Herbs and Edible Flowers in Small Spaces (description below). The store will have copies of my first three books available for sale, including You Grow Girl, Grow Great Grub, …
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages: please refresh your browsers. I am pleased to report that the site has been redesigned! All of the praise goes directly to Davin Risk who is wholly responsible for the work that has been done so far, including the gorgeous illustrations and hand drawn type. In the coming …
The winners of “The Backyard Parables“ by Margaret Roach of Away to Garden have been randomly chosen and confirmed. 2 from the comments: Tina K and Melissa 1 from the newsletter: Joann H You can sign up for my free weekly email newsletter over here. The newsletter has been going now for three weeks. If …
The winners of the five-pack of Italian heirloom seed varieties have been randomly chosen. They are: From the site: Comment #96 Ashley From the newsletter: Member #81 Colleen If you visited early, I have also written about the five varieties that were chosen. I plan to do more giveaways to members of the email newsletter …
For years I published a regular, email newsletter filled with site updates, pictures, contests, stories, and assorted garden-related ramblings… and then I stopped. People wrote to ask where the newsletter went and if I was okay and all I could think was, “It’s in my brain. If only I could will it from my brain …
I spent the day harvesting some of the last vegetables from the garden and photographing them. As this was happening I prepared jars for preserving, had pots of salsa verde and apple sauce on the stove, and packed several jars full of herbed salt. It was a busy day of multi-tasking, but I don’t mind. …
I’m on a staycation of sorts. The last month and a half was overbooked and I’m exhausted. Burned out. Frazzled. Fried. I am trying to relearn that there is nothing noble or brag-worthy about working yourself to the bone at the expense of your health and wellbeing. There is much gardening and preserving to do. …
July was painfully hot and dry. The garden suffered and there were days when I was sure that I would lose a few plants as a result. August, on the other hand, has been wet and somewhat cool. I really can’t complain. I don’t remember the last time I watered anything other than the pots …
It has already been an exciting week full of new prospects and events (there are more to come), but to add to that I am thrilled to announce that in early September I will be traveling to the Berkshires in New York State to conduct a full-day workshop on saving seed and preserving garden bounty …
You may know fellow garden addict, writer, and general all-around badass Margaret Roach through her well-loved books, via the pages of Martha Stewart Living magazine (she was the first garden editor there), or through her superlative website, A Way to Garden. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Margaret and I are in the process …
Yesterday I posted about the Cyclamen coum I was gifted by my friend Barry, and later that day I visited his cold greenhouse where his were in bloom along with many other botanical delights, including these Crocus biflorus ssp. isauricus ‘Spring Beauty’ (aka snow crocus) that he grew in a pot. The dark purple underside …