Magic Herb Garden

It’s time to start the seeds for my balcony vegetable garden. This year I’m using the 12 planter Gourmet Garden system from H’Urban Garden.

I’m not bashful about this one. I love seeds. I love growing annuals from seeds and perennials from seeds and vegetables and even now I love starting trees from seeds. ...

By taking a vegetable that you already love and growing a unique version of it, you’ll not only have the pleasure of picking your own food right from your planter, you’ll be able to treat yourself to something that you wouldn’t otherwise have a chance to enjoy.

Actually, for what it’s worth – here are the plants that I think are best suited to balcony vegetable gardens:
Beans, peas, some cucumbers, some sweet peppers, hot peppers, tomatoes, some eggplants, salad greens but not many cabbages and most annual herbs.

Living in Toronto, it’s easy to be jealous of someone in the south with a growing season that seems to me to last all year. But you live where you live and ...

It was around 1992 when I became irrevocably hooked on growing plants from seed. I was the proud, often exhausted and overly ambitious owner of a large perennial garden and far ...

Bonsai is a wonderful hobby. It combines art and nature, requires patience, develops skills (and more patience) and it adds something that I find quite beautiful to your life. Bonsai trees ...

So where do free radicals come from? There are two main sources of free radicals – one source is the outside environment – think of pollution and cigarette smoke and the host of toxic substances that we inflict on our bodies. And then on the other hand there are the free radicals that are made by our own bodies.

As an original idea, a bonsai is a wonderful example of a gift with lasting appeal. It is a gift with meaning and a history. It is more than just a piece of art. It might be the start a lifelong hobby.

Container gardens, hydroponic gardens, growing vegetables – everything helps to relieve stress, even when it’s not exactly perfect.