City Gardening

a gardening blog-azine by Lorraine Flanigan

Posts Tagged ‘herbs’

Canada’s Food Rules!

By • 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. [...]



Potted Potager

By • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Containers Forever

In small city gardens, it’s often a challenge to find enough space to grow all the ornamental plants you love, let alone veggies and herbs. And if you live in an apartment, it takes a certain dedication not only to find enough space to grow, but to surmount drying winds and scorching temperatures to bring [...]



Fall is for Herbs, Too!

By • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Fall, Plants, Season-By-Season

Fall is in the air and you probably think it’s time I started writing about fall bulbs. Well, although I promise to do it soon, I’m not quite ready.That’s because I’ve just been re-introduced to the herb garden, which reminded me that fall is also a time for harvesting and preserving culinary herbs such as [...]