The Birthday; A Delight At Any Age
Touring Hungary, several years ago, I had to laugh as we passed Lake Balaton. Even being used to flowery Hungarian exaggerations, the fact that Hungary is a landlocked nation, and that Lake Balaton is the…
Happy Chanukah, the latke mobile menorah
Years ago, I went to a garage sale and loaded a cardboard box with old kitchen gadgets, pots, pans, and even an old oil tin from the basement of the sale. …
Bull’s Blood Beets
I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, "Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio." They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, "Albino", to the "Bull's Blood" beet…
On the Boulevard: My Front Chard
One of the most beautiful, healthy and delicious parts of my garden is my "front chard". It grows between the sidewalk and the road on a patch about 140 square feet ,which…
Summer Squash: Sunshine
In the third quarter of July, I noticed a little empty space in the garden leading to the house. It was a stubborn piece of earth. In that spot, I had tried…
Too many tomatoes? Let’s play ketchup
The rays of the late afternoon sun are lengthening and what seemed impossible two months earlier is now a reality; there are too many tomatoes to eat and too little…
“Living in Full Color” in Today’s Toronto Star by Vanessa Lu
Living in full colour On a tree-lined street in the Annex, passersby are struck by giant corn stalks, just part of a whimsical, colourful garden that’s the brainchild of…
When the Garden Was Just a Twinkle in the Elephant’s Eye
In the post of August 29th, I was struggling to measure the broom corn with a ten foot pole. I needed a fifteen foot pole to touch the tops of the…
In my garden:The corn is definately higher than an elephant’s eye
The front yard and boulevard have become a destination garden for many. Among the streams of admirer's yesterday an elderly couple remarked, "Your corn is higher than an elephant's eye." Behold the…
Clockwork orange
orange in the garden,caro rich tomatoes,carrots,orange stemmed chard,nasturtiums and marigolds Like clockwork, a year to the day, since our last year's tomato tasting, Corey Mintz shows up at my door…