There are a lot of dirty jokes you can make about zucchinis, to state the obvious. But somehow it escaped my attention, until very recently, that zucchini plants have male and female flowers – of which the male flowers (above) must pollinate the female flowers (below) in order to make babies. Now, I’ve grown zucchini […]
Top deck veggie patch
Seems like this is the week of Before and Afters (ie. I am finally getting my act together in my own garden). Last year, our third-floor deck was a complete embarrassment due to a lack of access to water. This year, after installing a drip-irrigation system and some raised beds, we’re in business. You can’t […]
Makeshift herb garden
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I love my new fence
It’s such an exciting time in my own garden right now. Not only is everything ripening and in bloom, but we’ve also finally started construction on our backyard project. I don’t blog about my backyard much, and there’s a reason for it: it looks like hell. While I love my front patio, where we spend […]
Couldn’t they just text me?
Maybe this is what we outdoor-only gardeners need — although I wonder if unsatisfactory watering methods are the sole cause of my houseplants’ untimely deaths. I guess it couldn’t be helping. Botanicalls, a system still in the testing stage, is designed to help keep plants alive. Developed by four students at New York University’s interactive […]
Seedball progress
Regular Heavy Petal readers know that I’m really into seed balls, those muddy little balls of floral love. The first sowing I did this year was disturbed by construction, so I recently launched a second attack. The teeny results are beginning to show themselves in these photos. For a more advanced idea of what seed […]
Hogan’s Alley guerilla art
I want to tell you about a really inspiring guerilla art project and accompanying blog. Though I have lived in Vancouver almost all of my life, I’d never heard of Hogan’s Alley until a member of the Vancouver Guerilla Gardening Group put out a call for help with an installation for the Hogan’s Alley Memorial […]
Guest blog: Sustainable Harvest International
Heavy Petal has a guest blogger today: Jessica Schessler, a college student interning for the summer with Sustainable Harvest International, a very cool non-profit organization that helps Central American farmers create sustainable alternatives to slash-and-burn farming. Jessica is helping to spread the word. By Jessica Schessler Becoming green and saving the environment has become quite […]