City Gardening

a gardening journal by Lorraine Flanigan

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The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book: City Farmer by Lorraine Johnson

By Lorraine • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Plants, Veggies & Herbs

Geared to city gardeners, Lorraine Johnson’s City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing will be available in April, 2010 — just in time to start sowing! Wanna know more? Read what Greystone publishers have to say about it.



The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book: Incredible Edibles by Sonia Day

By Lorraine • Feb 5th, 2010 • Category: Plants, Veggies & Herbs

Another entry in the Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book, Sonia Day’s Incredible Edibles: 43 Fun Things to Grow in the City is sure to be packed with Sonia’s earthy advice. Her practical, no-nonsense approach to gardening means the pages of her latest book are bound to offer great growing advice for city gardeners.
 
 
 
 
 



Canada’s Food Rules!

By Lorraine • Apr 7th, 2009 • Category: Veggies & Herbs

Just in the last week, I’ve attended two lectures on vegetable gardening, read innumerable blog posts about planting veggies and today, what do you think arrived in the mail? Doug Green’s Guide to Canadian Vegetable Gardening. For a dyed in the wool carnivore, all this talk about vegetable plots is a tad difficult to swallow. [...]



4 of 10 Ways to Get Through Winter

By Lorraine • Feb 26th, 2009 • Category: Winter

4. Read a book. There’s nothing nicer than sitting by the fireplace, curled up with a good gardening book while snowflakes drift languidly outside. Bliss. Here’s what’s on my winter reading list: