We’re well into that part of the season when there is more going on in the garden than I can document. I could do one of these posts daily! This is the garden’s fourth year — a proper walk-through tour is sorely overdue. Unfortunately, I have a tendency to put off proper photos, telling myself …
I’ve known this week’s guest, Derek Powazek, for ages and while he claims to have only become a gardener 7 years ago when he moved into a home with a yard, I can’t recall thinking of him in any other way. In my mind he was always a gardener without a garden; his apartment full …
“Maybe this is what gardening is about: slowly opening the door, a controlling hand making tentative gestures to wildness.” – from The Gardener’s Manifesto by Lorraine Johnson Grow Write Guild Prompt #29: Write about wildness. The Grow Write Guild is a creative writing club for people who love to garden. Everyone is welcome to participate! …
Do you love tomatoes, want to grow tomatoes, or want some advice on new varieties to try? My guest this week is tomato crazy gardener, Kelly Gilliam. Kelly was a regular of the now defunct You Grow Girl forums way back in the day. Back then she was gardening in zone 8b out on the …
A recent Grow Write Guild writing prompt asked you to write about loss, attachment, and letting go. The idea for the prompt came to me as a result of the volume of beloved plants that I lost this spring due to a particularly harsh winter. However, I suspect that there were other losses in the …
Clockwise from Top Left: 1. I bought two dwarf gingko trees last week: Ginkgo biloba ‘Mariken’ and G. biloba ‘Troll.’ Neither grow to be more than 3 feet within 10 years. At their current size they’d only get lost in the foliage of the garden, so I’ve potted them up into containers that are a …
Someday I’d like to have the experience of gardening in another climate. While I certainly haven’t experienced everything this climate has to offer a gardener, I think it would be an exciting challenge to try growing somewhere completely different, where I would have the opportunity to see some of my favourite tender plants come into …
Like everything this year, the garden has been a little slow in producing spring salads fixings. Salad greens and sundry, i.e spinach, mustard greens, cress, lettuce, and radishes, to name just a few — are some of the first crops that I sow directly outdoors each spring. As soon as the soil is workable (meaning …
Big life changes are in motion. My friend Barry Parker has sold his house and is moving away from his garden of 27 odd years. He recently had a sale to raise funds for the move. Barry has gifted me several plants over the years, and my garden holds many reminders of our friendship and …
“I thought, “Gardening requires so much attentiveness that I will feel put out if I do this.” I literally spend 10 minutes a day… It’s become 10 minutes of ME.” My guest this week is Karen Walrond a professional speaker, writer, and photographer. You may know her from her site Chookoolonks, where she pairs her …
Oh hello there! Don’t mind me. I’ll just be over here plucking baby shiso plants from this raised bed for the next 100 years. Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the raised bed with your progeny and govern it. Spill your seed over a 4 foot radius and push out every other seedling that dare try …
My first episode was with a very rural gardener, so I thought I would flip the script for the second episode and talk to someone who gardens under very different circumstances. My interview with Ramon Gonzalez begins with a mutual praise for growing bulbs and even delves into his love of some of the same …