Growing North

07/04/2024

Come grab some of the plant babies that remain! And also some tasty treats from Witchy Kitchen !

Make your plans to come out to our OPENING DAY this Saturday, July 6 from 9:30 to 12:30. Weather will be great! 🌞 Vendors are looking forward to seeing you!

07/01/2024

That’s a wrap for the 2024 garden babies season! You have until midnight to grab some special or fun little garden seedlings. Convenient ordering and pickup through

https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/products

06/28/2024

Happy Canada Day long weekend! Last few days to grab your Growing North plant babies, and almost everything is 50% off online!! Super easy convenient pickup from the depot on your schedule.

06/22/2024

Cute has started! Bunnytail grasses and Micro Orange Hat tomatoes are getting their blooms :)

Lots still available through

06/21/2024

Don’t worry if your peppers and tomatoes look a bit small. 1) The season felt early but we’re actually right on schedule and plants probably feel like they’re smaller than they are 2) it’s been cool, everything will grow faster and bigger once it warms and the evening don’t drop as much 3) celebrate the cool for your lettuce and spinach and cold crops! They’re loving this.

06/16/2024

Sad to say, there is now chances of thunderstorms, so the in-person shopping had to be cancelled 😿. But the plant babies are still available online through from your nice dry home and even at midnight.

06/15/2024

UPDATE!! CANCELLED!!!

Fingers crossed for good(ish) weather! Why not come browse some more plants on Father’s Day? I have a few hundred plant babies still, plus I get to borrow the Square reader from .tbay so tap-to-pay TOTALLY accepted.

Piles of tomatoes, peppers (including Scotch Bonnet and King of the North), eggplants, squash, cucumbers, and a few lavender, borage and sunflowers. Yup, even the red sunflowers.

Please comment, share, like and all the things so META stops burying my posts 🙂. And so your friends who totally want something to do can also come by and visit.

See you tomorrow!!

06/14/2024

Weather might cooperate! Which means I’m going to try for an in-person shopping day at Growing North this Sunday Fathers Day.!

Stay tuned for times.

06/13/2024

The micro Orange Hat tomatoes already have their itty bitty flower buds. Soooo cute. Still many available. Or if you want huge tomatoes, try the Russian Romas. Delicious

www.myLocalism.ca

06/11/2024

Sunflower babies have been loaded to myLocalism!! Go grab yours now for your summer/fall flower show :)

06/07/2024

Yup! There are Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper plants available!! Listed with all my plant babies through

“Scotch bonnet is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o’ shanter bonnet. It is ubiquitous in West Africa and the Caribbean. Like the closely related habanero,

Scoville heat units (SHU): 100,000 - 350,000 SHU

Suggestions: Peppers need a warm soil and night temperature to prosper. They will stunt under 10C. Location should be sheltered from the wind and soil should be kept reasonably moist. Be sure to harden off the seedlings to reduce transplant stress. Harvest fruit early and often. The more you pick the more they will produce. Do not pull off fruit, rather cut from stems.”

https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/hot-pepper---scotch-bonnet-young-plant/137438-342336

06/06/2024

The young Astia zucchini looking fantastic! Gotta love container varieties 🙂 Available through

“Astia is a well-bred French bush zucchini variety, developed especially for container growing and planting in small space gardens. These non rambling, compact squash vines are also highly ornamental with big silvery-green, deeply indented leaves. Early bearing and productive, Astia bears abundant zucchini near the base of the plant where they are easy to harvest…

https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/squash---astia-container-zucchini-young-plants/137438-894527/

06/05/2024

Micro tomatoes. Need some in your life? I have these and many more unique varieties on

Why grow the same old you can find in the store? Have fun with your garden. SO MANY unique different things to try in myLocalism right now!!

“Orange Hat Tomato - Extra dwarf bush plants reach just 6-9 inches in height but the plants are wildly prolific, offering oodles of tiny orange orbs that burst with fruity sweet flavor. This is the perfect indoor or patio tomato, comfortably fitting in a 6-inch pot. Try these colorful and compact plants as an edible ornamental, mass planted in beds or borders or in mixed containers.

Determinate (non-vining)”

https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/tomato---orange-hat-micro-young-plant/137438-728106

06/04/2024

Looks like someone who picked up their plant babies today might have dropped one 🥺 If it was you please send me a note 📝

06/03/2024

A pile of the 2024 plant babies are now loaded onto MyLocalism.ca! Have fun shopping!

06/02/2024

Hoping to start loading stock to the website by late Sunday. Plants are a tiny bit smaller this year, not much, but are looking healthy! I also have a smaller stock this year due to “life” so here’s your chance to browse myLocalism and add things to your favourite lists. Fingers crossed everyone can get what they want once they have their stock added! (When I start adding, it will be item by item, not all at once)

**NOTE** some plant babies like white sage, tomatillos, strawberries will be added later as they come ready.

05/29/2024

Baby Orange Hat tomatoes are always soooooo tiny and adorable. Cannot wait to be able to open sales for folks. Almost there, hope to know a date by the weekend (fingers crossed)!! Baby pepper plants, squash, cucumbers, tomatoes all strengthening up for you.

05/26/2024

Wow!! These second year Munstead Lavender plants sure are ready and looking for new larger growing spaces. Overwintered and sprouting out into their fresh greenery, they should expand amazingly once they have the room (disturb/ loosen the roots from their bound-up mass when planting as they have been cramped a while).

Just listed my limited qty for folks to grab!



https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/products

05/23/2024

Slightly longer post:
As for many of us, the last year has been an extreme struggle for myself and family. Between life’s many many curveballs and family loss I’ve had to pick and choose how much I can give to “all-the-things” from the little time and energy left each day.

Which means I’m still making Growing North seedlings happen for all of you amazing folks, but they will be a little closer to June, and there will be a little less than in previous years. So I do apologize and I wish I could have made everyone’s favourites happen. I am still working to have all the options visible to add to your favourite lists, and I hope you will all still find new and amazing things to try when the stock is loaded to in a couple weeks for ordering.

I am always blown away by your support, and I’m sad if anyone is disappointed for 2024. Fingers crossed that all goes to plan and I can be back to full throttle for 2025 :)

Thank you for being with me for all these years 💕 here’s to fantastic summer gardens and delicious veggies 🤞

05/15/2024

Just added a few more to the website!

https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/x-large-everbearing-strawberry-plant---ltd-numbers/137438-495231

05/08/2024

I have a lovely abundance of very healthy Everbearing Strawberry plants at the moment. Who would like some of these listed up for Mother’s Day?

04/01/2024

It’s starting!

I’m slowly loading the hundreds of plant babies, in prep for late-May 2024.

And that means you can start browsing around and creating your favourite lists for launch night!

Also, you can choose get emails, or texts (!) or both to know when anything on your favourite list goes back in stock. How cool is that!!?

Check back often to see what else if popping up on my little corner of the AMAZING myLocalism world (this many plant babies take me a bit of time 🤭). And when you are there, seriously check out all the other awesome local businesses and products to be found. Or grab a Gift Certificate! Can be used for me, or for any of the items you see and fall in love with.

Have fun browsing!!

https://mylocalism.ca/growing-north/products

04/01/2024

Happy Easter! First strawberry of the season in the greenhouse.