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.

Frost dates. They dictate many of our actions in the garden. What are they? How are they calculated and most important, when are they?

It is a no equipment method of seed starting that doubles as a cold moist stratification. The reasons I rely on it year after year: Limited indoor space and once you try it, you will to!

Whenever we step into the role of gardener, we are either directly or indirectly mimicking nature. If seed starting fails to, start… we can look to how that seed would be grown in natural settings to find the answers.

You hit the internet and found loads of information on what to get for starting seeds and what steps to take.. but where in Toronto, can you find these items?!

Learn everything you need about your property’s microclimates, so that you can maximize your spaces potential. 

Not all evergreens or pots are created equal. Read on to get the scoop on how to keep potted ‘Christmas trees’ alive year after year.

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.