City Gardening

a gardening journal by Lorraine Flanigan

Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’

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. [...]



Potted Potager

By Lorraine • 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 [...]



7 of 10 Ways to Get Through Winter

By Lorraine • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Dig in, Spring

7. Start sowing seeds. After poring over seed catalogues all winter, the natural next step is to start sowing seeds once orders start arriving in the mail. Last year I picked up a seedling of Oxheart, an heirloom tomato that’s just about the tastiest I’ve tried. It grew high and wide (how was I to know [...]