I have recently moved. I lived in the same place for 8 years & had set-up a fairly decent process for growing seedlings indoors using a series of lights & bright windows. trays just waiting for seedlings new place means new set-up. I have resigned myself to the fact that I won’t be able to […]
Archive | Urban Agriculture
october in the seed garden
covering up for frost protection summer squash putting out last little fruits orca beans going to seed nasturtiums are looking gorgeous Harvest
mid august harvest!
my seed garden is really starting to produce. picked my first tomatoes & peppers! lots & lots of beans too
Late July seed garden
I love cucumbers curly q’s Peppers producing fruit Drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce – can’t wait to have this one in my seed collection! lovely basil. smells so good mmm. spicy arugula …. garden from the entrance. hard to see but there is tonnes of veg planted in here about to produce a cornucopia of […]
July vegetable gardens
Despite my late start in getting my garden planted, things are growing along splendidly! My tomatoes & peppers are finally starting to flower. Yeah! late seeded crops are starting to sprout & grow! Some of them are even ready to eat! mmm basil is growing along & smelling great. pesto here i come! My Lift […]
New To-Me Urban Seed Garden!!!
In an incredible and amazing stroke of luck, I just got offered the use of this wonderful space to grow in this season. i have always been blessed by offerings of great land to grow on, but they are always outside of the city. And for this full-time working, non-driving girl, that prospect was really […]
home greenhouse
this year for the first time I used my own home as my greenhouse. some experimenting was done, but it worked out pretty well. my front sunroom worked perfectly as a greenhouse! also used my front porch as a transplanting station once it got warmer out. luckily i have lots of space & i don’t mind […]
winter is coming
but my plants are still growing along great! indoors of course.. Sweet peppers setting fruit peppers & basil blooming against a backdrop of one of our first snows here in eastern ON i love having the smell (& taste!) of basil, rosemary, and lavender There was a gorgeous full moon rising from the east last […]
fall in the community garden
Chard in its last stages Lots of happy kale still Pile of greens harvested on Nov. 9th! Beautiful pink & yellow chard My garden plot put to bed under a pile of straw happy to be in the garden on a mild November day
Liftlock Garden – Aug. 19th
Can you believe all of this food came out of a 20×20 plot!! Beautiful sunset was the backdrop for your meeting Gardeners reaping their harvest Newly dug up plot ready for planting of fall greens Brussel Sprouts in a fellow gardeners plot Gorgeous sky, gorgeous garden Surveying the plot
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