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Whether you are already an organic gardener or perhaps you are looking to get started I’m sure you’d find it helpful to find out what other organic gardeners are doing and perhaps incorporate some of their tips into your own gardening routine.

I practice organic gardening and my big secret is that I use Alfalfa tea (or compost tea) on all of my plants at least twice during the growing season. It’s like organic miracle grow. Honest. My roses absolutely love it and you guys have seen pictures of my plants, don’t they look happy?

Here’s what a few other Organic Gardeners are talking about this week:

Five Cheats For The Lazy Gardener: How To Hack A Garden

The crunch of carrots, snap of snow peas and ripe juicy tomatoes are all appetizing images. However, unlike many gardeners you may not have the time or energy to devote to growing. Don’t worry! If you have just one day to […]

Pests in Organic Gardening? No need to worry

If you’re into organic gardening, there are a number of things that you need to consider and one of them is a very interesting one: if you see a bug, it’s not the end of the world, or in this case your garden, as you know it. …

Partial Shade: Its Vital Role in Organic Vegetable Gardening

For gardeners, they know that shade plays an important role in what they are doing as much as the sun. This is especially true if one is into organic gardening of vegetables. The exposure to sun and its need to be in shade still depends …

The Truth About Organic Gardening

I just finished a great book about organic vs. conventional gardening. It is called “The Truth About Organic Gardening” by Jeff Gillman. Why did I like it? Well, for one it was an easy read. I’m a plant geek, not a bookworm. …

I hope that you get a chance to read one or all of these posts as there’s some good information there about organic gardening! Enjoy.






Picturesque columbines

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My columbines are absolutely gorgeous this year! I took this photo on June 1st and the columbines (Aquilegia) are still blooming and look just as lovely as they did two weeks ago. I can’t believe they survived the heatwave we had last week, nor the storms we’ve had this weekend … but they did.

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I have a beautiful close up of these flowers on my photo blog right now if you’d like to take a look at a really gorgeous photo.

It’s been raining on and off this weekend. Actually we’ve had some mighty fierce thunder storms (Friday and today). I’m hoping that it will clear up soon as I have a few flats of annuals to plant and now that my roses are heavy with blooms they’re drooping – some branches are even touching the ground – so I must get out and stake the roses.

I’m also hoping that it will clear up enough that I can take some photos, because as I said most of my roses are in bloom and it’s just a delightful sight.

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Fringed orange tulips put on quite the display!

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Sorry for the delay posting this weeks GTS post. My Laptop is acting up … everything I do on it takes forever … it’s very slow … so, so much for uploading new photos! Arghhh! I emptied the recycle bin and I’m currently defraging the poor notebook – hopefully that helps.

In the meantime … my lovely orange fringed tulips are blooming. Remember I was just obsessed with them last year? They have such an eye catching fiery color that it’s hard not to become enamored of them.

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These flowers are blooming in my front flower beds and they’re putting on quite the display. They’re also taller this year than last year.

In fact, I think most of my tulips were quite a bit taller this year than in previous years. For example, these orange fringed tulips have a stem that’s at least 2.5 feet long. Might even be 3 feet high. Must have been all the snow cover we had over winter that did it.

Here’s a close up of the top of the tulip and its fringes. Don’t the fringes almost look like teeth? You could mistake this tulip for one of those Venus Flytrap type of plants if all you saw was its fringes!

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I hope you’re having a great weekend. It’s cloudy and rainy here in Toronto, but it’s warmed up in the last week, although today isn’t all that warm.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information. GTS participants remember to check in at As the Garden Grows each week so that we’ll know you made a new post!

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