Green Gardeners Ecological and Organic Landscaping Toronto

Thank you for visiting our site, we are revamping the site to better describe what we do as well as aiming to provide a more enriching experience for you, our visitor.

As the name implies, compost tea is made by steeping compost in water. It’s used as either a foliar spray or a soil drench, depending on where your plant has problems. Why go to the extra trouble of brewing, straining, and spraying a tea rather than just working compost into the soil? There are several reasons. First, compost tea makes the benefits of compost go farther. What’s more, when sprayed on the leaves, compost tea helps suppress foliar diseases, increases the amount of nutrients available to the plant, and speeds the breakdown of toxins. Using compost tea has even been shown to increase the nutritional quality and improve the flavor of vegetables.

How to make Compost Tea:

• First start with good compost, you can use your own home-made compost, buy compost from your local garden supply store or use worm castings.
• In a 5 gallon bucket use 1 quart of compost
• use an aquarium pump to aerate (not necessary but very helpful)
• add molasses to increase bacterial activity (good for grasses)
• add liquid seaweed and/or fish emulsion to increase fungal activity (good for woody plants and shrubs)
• Let steep for 24 hours and then strain.
• This mixture is safe enough to apply to any part of your garden.

We can apply compost tea that we’ve made same / next day from being bubbled. Order now
Happy steeping!

Also, we would be happy to include compost tea capacity building option for our fall makeover specials

Summer Time    

We are taking advantage of the Summer to review how the Spring Season went and to plan for Fall and Winter Phases of the Year

Hoping to post some new photos on the projects we have been working on this year.   

Stay Tuned Getting Ready to launch, project ground nut through Green Oasis on Broadview

From heirloom vegetables to edible flowers and herbs, Green Gardeners now has a wide selection of specialty seeds available for you online.  Take a look at our seed catalogue online and order through via email.  Nows the time to get those seedlings started!!

Seed Catalogue pages 1-3 : Arugula Rocket – Lettuce (Selway)

Seed Catalogue pages 4-6 : Little Finger Carrot – Zuchinni Black Beauty

To order seeds: Browse through our seed catalogue and send us email to info@greengardeners.ca with your mailing address and a list of the names of the seeds and the quantity you would like to order.   Don’t forget to inquire about all the other services Green Gardeners has to offer!

RiverSides and Green Gardeners Community Collaborative Inc. are pleased to announce a workshop for green landscapers and those who are interested in greening their services.  The workshop will benefit Toronto’s watersheds and introduce contractors and businesses to ideas about how to compete in a greener and more cost-conscious marketplace.  It will help to build understanding of the benefits of linking environmental issues to client solutions for home and garden.

Join us on February 19, 2009 at Northern District Library, 40 Orchardview Blvd Room 200 from 1 to 4.30pm.

The landscape industry is rapidly evolving as larger ecological concerns become more pressing and the regulatory environment shifts. New certifications are becoming available for organic landscapers, and key indicators and ratings systems like LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) are setting the bar for meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements.  A key component of all certification/rating systems includes onsite management of water – pollution and run-off prevention, site stewardship and ecological practices that contribute to improved urban water conditions. 

At the workshop landscape contractors will learn how to add value for clients through rain and water saving programs. Case studies and hands on demos will introduce cutting edge developments in on-site management of stormwater, including rain/bog gardens, rain barrels, rainwater harvesting and other solutions.  This is especially relevant in light of the City of Toronto’s 2007 downspout disconnection by-law which requires all Toronto’s residents to disconnect their downspouts from the sewer system. Homeowners in the combined sewer area of Toronto will be responsible for managing stormwater on their properties using rain barrels and/or other landscape solutions.

Participants will have a chance to network with  Each participant will receive an information and resource kit to take home.