Here is a tomato relative to try out on friends who don’t like tomatoes. Just don’t tell them that it has “tomato” in its name. I have friends who don’t like fresh tomatoes, but love this fantastic fruit! I love litchi tomato for its flavour. But it is prickly. Don’t...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, Ontario on August 5th, 2019— We’re airborne! This year, Harrowsmith introduced a grounded focus for our four issues—the elements. In western culture, these four elements are deemed to be essential to life. Our spring...
So, when I wanted some moss on my concrete I thought it was a no-brainer. Well, check out my interesting moss adventure so you too can figure out how to make moss. That green stuff growing between my interlock pavers has been a bit of an issue. I don’t like weeds or...
Having the run of the garden is an open invitation for a dog to work out.
Dundurn Castle’s secret kitchen garden.
Thankfully some ideas are still safe in my brain have not yet been imitated. An artist can draw inspiration from the strangest places (trust me) so it’s no surprise that the ‘Orbs’, the ‘Geodes’ and the planters have united to become awesome Rock and Concrete Geode...
The physical act of gardening touches on all five of our senses
Peanut; the name makes a lot of sense. Technically, a peanut is a legume, from the fabaceae or pea/bean family, but it looks, tastes and packs all the nutritional power of a nut. The scientific name from the often repetitive binominal nomenclature created by Swedish...
This tomato is truly a wild one. The plant, the production, and the flavour of Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato is out of control! In my previous post I talked about how productive Yellow Currant Tomato is, and this one is a huge producer too. But it’s different. Found...
The Japanese winter is not pleasant. Northern winter winds from the Asian continent whip down the valleys bringing rain and snow, and more often than not, the skies are grey. The trains are packed with sniffling people coughing behind disposable white surgical masks;...
This tiny tomato is the most minuscule I've seen, but it sure isn’t one to disappoint. It produces tons of pea-sized golden-yellow tomatoes. The Yellow Currant tomato has a strong, sweet, and tart flavour, making it great for snacking on all by itself. It’s juicy, and...
In 2016, Paul Eisener’s life was turned upside down by a blood cancer diagnosis. A Program Manager for an automotive supplier His life quickly shifted from a hectic work schedule and frequent travel throughout Ontario, the U.S. and Mexico to blood tests, oncologists...
1. Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, 2012) Founding Gardeners is a fascinating look into the lives of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Together,...
A kitchen garden is a wonderful addition to a garden repertoire and if you have no other gardens, it’s a perfect one to have as the only garden or as the beginning to many others. A traditional kitchen garden is known as a potager in French. The word potager...
I’m hanging up laundry on the balcony on a cold sunny day, when I hear the angry voice down the street. Two men stand beside my garden, one is pointing to my new leaf- mulching box complaining loudly how it touches the cinder block wall that marks his property line....