These aren’t hacks. This is a practical, frugal list of ways to garden. Ontario’s continuous lockdowns to counter Covid have caused supply shortages, price inflations and access inequalities amongst residents of Toronto. Gardening does not need to be only for the affluent and land owners. There are many ways to garden on a budget utilizing things you and your community already have access to.

Time is the most limited resource. You want gardening to be fun, not another task on your already full plate. Taking the path of least resistance or easing into a new activity can help you stay the course and eventually level up your skills. Be kind to yourself and try out some of the easiest to grow vegetables when first jumping into gardening.

The fear and overwhelm is real! There are so many details that go into gardening. You can spend a lifetime and never learn all there is to know. But you know what you can do? Start! And we’ll show you how!

Trying to fit an additional activity into your schedule is hard, but putting aside an entire day or weekend as a parent feels nearly impossible. Before you spend an entire weekend planting all your carefully tended seedlings into the garden and then need another weekend to recover, consider these three factors.

Covid made a lot of thumbs dirty this year, but perhaps yours didn’t clean up into the shade of green you had hoped for. Fear not, with these 5 tips you can create the green thumb you are after and become a better gardener.