After more than a decade of biking, driving and hitching rides to my gardens on borrowed land, I am finally growing my very own urban seed farm in my new to me backyard!!! I am so incredibly excited to watch these gardens grow, to expand my business and bring people more high quality, locally adapted, […]
urbantomato will be hosting a PLANT SALE on SATURDAY MAY 30th at the corner of Hunter & Water. If you can’t make it to the plant sale, let me know what plants you would like & I can set them aside for you & make arrangements to get them to you & your gardens! I […]
ECHO empowers small-scale farmers to increase their harvests, and the nutritional diversity of their crops. We educate, equip and share sustainable solutions to hunger! I went to visit my mom for the holidays. Luckily for me (especially considering back home in Canada now amid a three day frigid cold snap!), she lives in Fort Myers […]
cleaned garlic cloves ready to go in the ground some of these cloves are giant. they’re going make great future bulbs prepped bed cloves going in the ground for winter slumber garden cleaned up for the season
lemon squash forming fruit – tastes just like yellow zucchini, but in a cute round package Yugoslovian finger fruit squash. one of the coolest looking veggies I have grown Squash blossoms getting pollinated
if a tree falls in your garden & no one is around to see it; does it make a sound? I don’t know! but i sure did yelp, when i arrived at my seed garden to see this; and breathed quite the sigh of relief when i realized most of my plants were amazingly ok […]
i spent 8 years building this beautiful garden. i added tonnes of amazing plants from friends established perennial gardens, started beauties from seeds, and moved things around to have it bloom beautifully each month of the season. this is what it looked like in July 2012. i think it was my greatest art project to […]
can’t stop photographing this gorgeous drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce. Can’t wait to add it to my urbantomato 2014 seed collection First sunflower. I love having flowers mixed into my seed garden. Sometimes I collect the seeds, sometimes I love the beauty they add, and I always love that they attract pollinators mammoth purple cabbage […]
tomatoes & hot peppers are growing along great! zucchini and cucumbers bloomed quickly and are starting to grow up sprouting cucs & zucs from a few weeks ago. they are growing along great now. i ran out of space for my black cherry tomatoes in my garden. I figure, i should have great isolation here […]
loads of filipendula blooming look what i spotted in the weeds red romaine mustard greens sprouting last years carrot going to seed!!! lupins going to seed proud to say my garden is very pollinator friendly first tomato!! purple cherokee cucumber is flowering i’m excited about this drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce loads of tomato […]
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