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Sonia Day November 25, 2011

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Saute chard leaves with garlic or onion and serve with meat or fish, or try them in a stir fry or vegetable soup.
The Real Dirt: Chard’s a champ Sonia Day  

Cheerful chard (or Swiss chard, as it’s often called) thrives virtually anywhere — in poor soil, in a container, in sun, in...

Tomatillos need sun all day to produce lots of fruits.
The Real Dirt: Tomatillo, tomato? Sonia Day  

The tomato and the tomatillo have a shared heritage. But the similarities end there.

Michele Semin's yard at her home in Lincoln, Neb. Her friend, designer Chris Murphy, created the outdoor design using coloured glass.
Waves of coloured glass make unusual refuge Jennifer Forker  

It would be an unusual backyard anywhere — especially, perhaps, among the cornfields and tall grasses of Nebraska.

Sun-dry extra tomatoes for winter preserves Sonia Day  

What to do with torrents of tomatoes? Make your own sun-dried tomatoes.

|Homegrown garlic is gorgeous Sonia Day  

Visit the Stratford Garlic Festival this weekend for some plump and luscious homegrown garlic

Baby veggies can be easy to grow in your garden Lee Reich  

Many gardeners aspire to grow a humongous pumpkin or head of cabbage. And many of the same people are also attracted to...

Cullen: Britain is great at growing food Mark Cullen  

Mark Cullen reflects on a tour of British gardens, where he learned a thing or two about growing fruits and vegetables.

Thinking small can pay big veggie dividends William Hageman  

For most gardeners, the dream is to be out there with a big patch of land, growing all manner of vegetables.

How to gardening book addresses gender divide Sonia Day  

A new Canadian book called No Guff Vegetable Gardening addresses the differences between male and female gardeners

Grow sweet corn in your own backyard Lee Reich  

Rumour has it the place to grow sweet corn is in a farm field. Backyard gardens, the reasoning goes, generally are not large...

Spice up your salad greens Sonia Day  

Arugula. A-ROO-GOO-luh. What a delicious word, rolled slowly off the tongue. And this trendy Italian salad green tastes pretty... Comment Count(0)

Simple steps for starting a vegetable garden Lee Reich  

Planned correctly, the most basic vegetable garden takes little time or effort. Here’s how to plan and plant this most basic...

Climbing onion both pretty and easy to care for Lee Reich  

Would it pique your interest in a houseplant if I told you it had no leaves?

Potatoes a bountiful harvest, but require attention Dean Fosdick  

Grow bags and potatoes make the perfect pairing.

Raised beds key to vegetable garden success Norman Winter  

There’s a good chance you are among the multitude that’s considering planting a vegetable garden in 2011. If so, you may find...

Day: Little-known native fruit grows in the GTA Sonia Day  

Pawpaws taste so yummy, they're becoming the morel mushrooms of the fruit world — snapped up by those-in-the-know the moment...

Berry plants a feast for the eyes and the palate Dean Fosdick  

Berry plants are flavourful favourites in many kitchen gardens, but their ornamental value is all but ignored.

Pumpkin is a sexy sequel to turkey Sonia Day  

If you’d like to add spice to your love life, grow a jack-o'-lantern. Then bake a great big pumpkin pie with it and invite...

Make your 100-mile pledge at Veggie Village Sonia Day  

This is yet another story about the joys of growing food in the city.

Make your 100-mile pledge at Veggie Village Sonia Day  

This is yet another story about the joys of growing food in the city.

Day: Tomato experiment results are in Sonia Day  

The real dirt by master gardener Sonia Day: Time to talk tomatoes.

Day: This squash blows its own horn Sonia Day  

Whoo hoo! Sound the trumpets! This is proving to be one of the best summers in years for getting squashed.

Sonia Day: Backyard spuds are super simple Sonia Day  

Sure they're cheap at the supermarket, but potatoes are also an easy garden grow, even for urbanites. With a Blue Box, some...

For big, tasty harvest, the time to thin fruits on trees is now Lee Reich  

Snowballs of bloom followed by miniature fruits tell of branches soon to be bowed by the weight of large and luscious peaches...

Cullen: Growing your own incredible edibles Mark Cullen  

The phenomenon of growing veggies in your own yard just gets bigger.

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Cullen: Treat yourself to locally grown produce Mark Cullen  

Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began a one-year experiment in local eating and they wrote a book about it called “The One...

43 things an urban gardener can plant for homegrown food Sonia Day  

In her new book, columnist Sonia Day picks plants for small, urban gardens.

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