If spring rhymes with good weather, it also rhymes with sowing. But beware, not all plants are suited to Toronto’s climate, let alone when gardening on a downtown balcony.
Béatrice Lego, coordinator of the University of Toronto farm on the Scarborough campus, offers suggestions to Y a pas deux matins listeners.
Among his vegetable suggestions are chicory and arugula, but also spinach and the whole cabbage family: kale, green cabbage …
” These are called cold cultures, they still like the cold of the night. “
Then there are all the root vegetables, so the radishes, the beets, and the paved ones. Potatoes can also be planted nowhe continued.
Béatrice Lego also discussed some more general issues of urban gardening, such as climate change.
It’s a bit confusing when growing up outside. Like there, it suddenly became 25 degrees. Usually, we are not at this temperature, so certainly for all these plants that come in the spring, it is complicated..
Source: Radio-Canada
