Kashi is building and supporting community gardens across Canada and encouraging Canadians to grow their own food. In partnership with Evergreen, Kashi is helping to increase access to fresh, healthy, locally grown foods for urban communities across the country.
Members of the Toronto Kiwanis Boys & Girls Club kicked off the Kashi Plant it Forward initiative by attending a planning sessions facilitated by Evergreen’s urban gardening experts, tilling the soil and sowing seeds.
How can you plant it forward at home? Gardening expert Tara Nolan shares her tips on growing your own edible garden.
Here are 6 Tips to Grow an Edible Garden:
1. Plant Your Grocery List: While it’s fun to grow a variety of fruits and veggies, think about what your family likes to eat the most. If you make a lot of pasta sauce or salsa, for example, grow lots of tomatoes and herbs.
2. Eat The Flowers, Too: Plant edible blooms like violets and nasturtiums, which look lovely as a garnish in salads or to add some pizzazz to an ice cube.
3. Grow Up: If you have a small growing area, maximize space by choosing vining crops such as peas, squash or cucumbers. Use trellises or stakes to train the plants to grow upwards.
4. Grow Salad Bowl: Lettuce is a great cool-season crop that you can plant now. Fill a bowl (be sure there are holes in the bottom) or old colander with soil and sprinkle with lettuce seeds. Lightly rake the soil to cover and water regularly.
5. Keep It Contained: Be wary of voracious spreaders like mint and chamomile, which can take over your garden. Keep these types of plants in pots and out of the garden.
6. Hang It Up: Another way to maximize growing space is to plant certain fruits and veggies in hanging pots. Strawberries, for example, do well in hanging baskets. And keep an eye out for upside down tomato planters.
ENTER TO WIN
To support this initiative, we’re pleased to be giving away a Kashi Plant it Forward prize pack which includes:
· A selection of new Kashi Cereals and snack offerings
· Kashi Plant-it Forward Seeds
· Colours of California Rainboots
Please use the Rafflecopter below to enter this giveaway.
Good luck!
33 Comments
I do garden, and I find tomatoes really easy to grow!
WE are setting up a little garden in our backyard this year. We are hoping to grown some tomatoes and carrots
we plant many things – beans, peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, kale, etc as well as flowers
I do not garden, but my favourite vegetable is the carrot
I would love to garden more but we have no space to do so! Fave to grow would be strawberries
I dont garden currently but if I do again I would likely plant Broccoli because I love it so much.
We do garden and my favourite thing is fresh basil and I really enjoy tomatoes as well.
Read your entire article and not able to find a video to share? I have shared the giveaway on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/belinda.mcnabb.7/posts/564019673716907
I like to grow tomatoes
I moved last September. No spot for a garden new place.
Yes. I love to garden I grow Carrots, spinach, tomatoes and some herbs
I don’t grow fruits if veggies, just flowers…
I don’t garden currently, but am thinking of starting.
I garden very little, but I love growing tomatoes and beans!
I love to grow potatoes,carrots,onions,strawberries
I garden alot- onions, beets, zukes, cukes, pumpkin, watermelon, tomatoes, peppers and beans.. can wait to eat them all in the fall
I don’t garden but my sister is an avid gardener and plants everything from blueberries to onions.
I don’t currently garden, I just have plants and a bonsai tree.
I do garden – I couldn’t pick one favorite veggie, as I grow so many 🙂 I do love garden cucumbers though! (also entered my instagram name incorrect: should be sbabij )
I like to grow tomatoes and jalapenos
I do garden and love to grow my own tomatoes
I garden but I’m not an expert or anything. I love home grown cucumbers the best!
I want to grow some green peppers
We do have a garden with corn, potatoes, carrots, beets, cucumber, squash, peas, beans, and several other veggies!
Yes I do. Tomatoes and some herbs
Yes. some herbs and onions.
Yes, I garden. My favourite veg to grow are mustard greens since they are easy and delicious and you can’t buy them at the store.
This is a great idea. I really do not like how they use the word ‘real’ instead of ‘really’ in this video. Adverbs are our friends.
My favourite things to grow are my herbs like chives, dill, and parsley!
i love growing kale and tomatoes
I do not garden but my wife does1
I don’t garden but I will be starting this year. Most looking forward to growing spaghetti squash.
Oh my word! It gets worse each time I listen to it. I think she said ‘real easy to blender’. Blender is not a verb. I guess I am not the target market for this commercial. It irks me.
Still, I do enjoy Kashi and I am all for supporting urban gardens.