Behold, my first (possibly only) tomatoes

One, one, one li’l ‘Sungold’. Two, two, two ‘Bloody Butcher.’ Three, three, three li’l tomatoes. Well, you get the idea. Considering that this is how they looked when first planted two months ago and then this is how the Sungolds looked in mid-August, that’s worth singing about. And with the unprecedented dry spell of August-September […]

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The humble face of hope

C’mon, little tomato flower (our first one). We’re rooting for you. You can do it! online pharmacy buy wellbutrin with best prices today in the USA We have faith. And, do you know what? No matter what happens, all we ask is that you do your darnedest. That’s what counts. Way to go, little ‘Scarlet […]

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The taste of a fresh beet: Unbeetable

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Tomato problems: Curly Top Virus

This is one of Sarah’s tomato casualties, which I think we’ve IDed as being felled by beet curly top virus, an insect-borne malady. The leaves have curled upward and become stiff (Sarah says: like rigor mortis for tomatoes), with purple veining on the undersides. The whole plant has become stunted and curled, not older or […]

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Happy to be “have beans” (or almost)

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Our little 0.0018 acre

We have been lucky enough to gain the use of two unclaimed 4×10′ allotment plots in a local community garden. My husband and I haven’t planted veggies on any scale since we foolishly gave up our Leslie Street Allotment plot when we bought our first house 25 years ago. I don’t count an occasional cherry […]

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Discovery: Scarborough Community Garden

Twitter. Wow. Only through Twitter did I learn about online pharmacy buy modafinil with best prices today in the USA a garden a short drive from home – from someone hundreds, maybe thousands of miles away in the United States. Here’s how it happened. Through Twitter links, I won a copy of the book The […]

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Front-Yard Veggies: More views

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Front-Yard Veggies: A garden

Please don’t think I’m all about the flowers. Walking through the neighbourhood today, I was impress online pharmacy buy zithromax with best prices today in the USA ed with this front-yard veggie plot. Unsure if you can see it in the smaller photo format, but this little river of vegetables goes aaaaaaaaall the way back. […]

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Growing veggies: Lettuce be frank

With the sudden spike in temperature expected over the next three days, I might just have left it a little too late to start sowing these lettuce and salad seeds I’d been saving — samples received through my membership in the Garden Writers Association. I hope not. I’ll be squeezing the seeds into some of […]

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