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Gardening Without a Garden
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. The Guardian in the UK have recently started up a new topical gardening podcast series with hosts Alys Fowler and Jane Perrone called, “Sow, Grow, Repeat.”...
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Tumbling Composter Update
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Three years ago the sustainable living company Eartheasy sent me the Jora JK125 Tumbling Composter to try out in my garden. This weekend we emptied and moved...
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The Lost Language of Plants
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. This week I started reading, The Lost Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner. My approach to this book has been non-linear, picking and choosing the parts...
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D.I.Y Tomato Protection
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. According to the charts, we are now past the point of frost danger here in Toronto. Many of my neighbours have already planted out their entire tomato crop. I...
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Recipe: Chocolate Cherry Almond Smoothie
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. I’ve been closely watching the local fruit trees this spring and it looks like it is going to be another, ahem, fruitful year of foraging. We picked...
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Gardening Mad
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. [Just a heads up that I write a bit about death in this one and if that is too morose for you right now then I’d suggest skipping this one.] The other day I...
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Waste Not: Use Up Tough Garlic Scape Ends
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Three uses for the tough, inedible ends of garlic scape stalks that you can use in the home or garden. Read Waste Not: Use Up Tough Garlic Scape Ends on You...
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Big Impact with the ‘Tiny Padhye’ Lily
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. The 'Tiny Padhye' lily is a prolific yet compact variety with maroon and white flowers that was originally developed for container growing. Click through for...
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My Garden Photography & a Garden Tour
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Image Chaser is a website by Nikon USA that features the work of photographers told from behind the lens. I’m thrilled to announce that this week my garden...
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The Peterborough Community Garden Network’s Urban Grain Seed Project
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Way back in the depths of deepest winter I accepted a position with Fiskars Project Orange Thumb® as a member of the editorial board. Project Orange Thumb...
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The Gardener is Sick
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Approximately five months ago, I wrote this piece about the manic, messy, madness of the springtime garden. As I said at the time, every spring is like that...
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Grow Write Guild #32: When the Gardener Can’t Garden
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. A few weeks ago I wrote about an illness that had me unable to garden through the height of the growing season. This experience in being disconnected from the...
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Fiskars Project Orange Thumb is Offering Community Garden Grants in 2016
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Since 2002 Fiskars Project Orange Thumb® has awarded $1.6 million in cash and tools to 180 community garden groups across the US and Canada. In 2016 the green...
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Looking Back at a Month in the Caribbean
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Six years ago today, Davin and I embarked on a month-long trip that took us to 3 Caribbean islands. This trip was a really big deal for me as my maternal side...
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My Month in the Caribbean (Barbados: Day Two)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. Day two of the trip had us heading away from the grounds of the hotel after a morning spent sitting by the ocean. I was worried there wouldn’t be much to cover...
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My Month in the Caribbean (Barbados: Day Three)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. I don’t like being a tourist. I like to see new places, but I’m not especially comfortable in the role of The Tourist. Or perhaps it is that I have been...
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My Month in the Caribbean (Barbados: Day Four)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. December 10, 2009. Growing up, I heard many stories about Barbados’Animal Flower Cave. While there were many other places that I wanted to see on the island,...
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My Month in the Caribbean (Dominica: Day 5)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. December 11, 2009. We landed on the east side of Dominica, our luggage, camera gear, and a pillow in tow, and travelled about 2 hours by cab through the...
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My Month in the Caribbean (Dominica: Day 6)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. December 12, 2009. We woke up in Roseau, the capital city of Dominica, on market day. No matter where I am in the world, I am always drawn to markets. Food...
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My Month in the Caribbean (Dominica: Day 7)
You Grow Girl - Gardening for the People. So far, I have approached each of these looking back trip posts without a plan. Sometimes I can recall exactly what occurred and I start writing straight away....
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