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 […]
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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 […]
Peterborough Saturday Farmers’ Market
booth all set-up & ready to go in the lovely early morning sun plants are selling quickly! view from behind the table out to market … now only two tomato plants left! one little allegory sunset plant left!
Saturday Market Prep
Here’s the first batch of seedlings getting ready to leave the nest & head to my customers home’s & gardens. You can find urbantomato at the Peterborough Saturday Farmers Market March – June.
Frozen delights
I had almost forgotten that in the peak of harvest/ seed collecting season I froze three bags of whole cherry (& some others) tomatoes as well as a bag of roasted tomatoes. Tomatoes freeze so well, they still look so perfect & are not even really frozen together. The roasted ones smell so amazing as […]
Growing Heirloom Seeds & Tomatoes Demo
Drop in & visit us anytime between 11-2pm – 165 Sherbrooke St. …. I will be bringing some of my little planties as well. Here is a shot from my lovely day spend at Avante Garden
Scadding Court Community Centre Seed Exchange
Here is some shots of the urbantomato booth at the Scadding Court Community Centre Seedy Saturday on March 3rd 2012. Nice to see so many folks that I only get to see once a year! box of seeds
Find urbantomato at Scadding Court Community Centre (TO) this Saturday March 4th 2-5pm
Packing seeds & making buttons
Spending lots of time in my home office making buttons & packaging seeds getting ready for seed exchange and market season: Buttons lining up My old 8-track box is filling right up with packaged seeds! packing my striped cavern seeds
My tomato seed collection
I have been collecting tomato seeds for over six years! wow what fun it has been. this is my chronological collection. starting in the front with some seeds given to me, then my 2006 & 2007 collections in the tines, 2008 small box, 2009 box with red flowers, 2010 bigger box next to that, and […]
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