Best Trees for the Local Environment

Hello! I have a backyard in North York area of Toronto with an abundance of trees. The previous homeowners planted numerous trees including magnolias, a plum, 2 mulberry trees, 2 varieties of apples, 2 quince trees and about 2-3 varieties…

Container Vegetable Gardening

This year I’m growing tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini and bush beans in containers. I’m aware of minimum container size requirements for each, just wondering what ratios of medium are best. Here is what I have for a single container: 20%…

Vegetable plant for new gardener

I have a balcony in East York facing south. I would like to start gardening in the container(the size of Home Depot pale). I would like to know what kind of vegetables that are easy to grow.…

When to transplant Leeks outside in Downtown Toronto

The farmers almanac says leeks can be transplanted outside in Toronto M4J 3T1 (Danforth/Pape area) after April 13 until April 24 — many other places say not to put them outside until end of April/beginning of May. We seem to…

Jesuit Pear

A neighbour has grown some Jesuit Pears from seed. They are about 4.5′ tall. He just informed me that he’s going to dig them up and throw them out. Since they are considered a fairly rare heirloom pear I’ve dug…

When to start spring planting

In an oddly warm year such as this 2024- should I start planting in MARCH the seeds that call for “as soon as ground can be worked”.  Because the ground definitely feels like spring – even though it seems much…

Polyethylene row covers for a head start !

Hi, I live in Scarborough Ontario Canada and I will be starting my tomatoes peppers melons etc indoors 1-2 months before planting outside. However I was wondering if I can start planting outside in mid April through the use of…