Tips, advice and articles for new and advanced gardeners. Photos and plant profiles featured regularly. Discusses gardening in a Canadian Zone 6b (USDA Zone 5b) garden - based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Can you believe that I still haven’t finished putting my garden to bed for the winter? Ok it’s not that bad … we only have a little bit of gardening work to do, but still … it’s almost the end of November and we could have our first snow fall...
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It was a beautiful weekend! I think we might have had a very late Indian Summer here in Toronto! The temps got up to 17 C or 63 F and tomorrow’s going to be warm for this time of year too.
Of course, the warmer weather probably isn’t doing my...
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It’s hard to believe but November is here. It’s starting to get colder and the leaves are falling off the trees and my garden plants. It’s time to start putting the garden to bed for the winter.
As far as gardening goes I dislike this time of...
Now that Autumn has arrived and the garden is winding down it might be time to think about the health of your lawn.
Here in Toronto there’s a ban on pesticide and insecticide use (not that I used them on my garden or lawn anyway as we are fully...
On Tuesday I spent some time outside in the garden with my husband. It was a nice Autumn day reaching about 16 Celsius (60 F) – warm compared to the last two weeks!
My husband was busy fixing a storage area and I’d come outside to take some photos of...