Category Archives: Planting

Painted stones and plant markers Spring 2021

Can You Spot the Art?

Our volunteers will be hard at work in May, weeding and preparing beds to start the cycle of food production for the vulnerable families we support. Hopefully, lockdown will end…

Basket of patty pan squash

August Garden Update

Here’s a quick look at what has been happening in the garden in August 2020, and what the rest of the season may bring. The City of Toronto has comprehensive rules…

Fedges donated by TreeMobile

New Fedges from TreeMobile

What’s a Fedge you ask? Why, a Food Hedge of course! Thank you TreeMobile https://www.transitiontreemobile.org for their generous donation which includes asparagus, grape vines, an elderberry kent, raspberries and gooseberries!

Strawberries starting to form

Seedlings and Perennials: Late Spring Update

 Spring has well and truly sprung despite uneven temperatures and precipitation, and who can forget that late April snow!! A small cadre of physically distanced volunteers have mostly finished planting…

Thank You Team PNG!

Thank you for a great season! 2019 has been a fantastic year for Parkview Neighbourhood Garden. Starting in January, a group of interested volunteers started meeting at North York Public…

Group Work Makes Short Work of Garden Work

2019, more than any of our previous years, was most definitely the Year of the Group. We had more teams working in the garden, transforming more of our spaces, than…

Example of Sign for Perennial Planting

New Signs to Guide Your Visit

Have you noticed our new signs this fall? Thanks to a generous grant from the bursary program of the Landscape Ontario Toronto Chapter, we brought in a number of soil…

Seedlings awaiting planting

April and May Work Projects

April 2019 Fruit Pruning and Maintenance When: Saturday April 6, 2019 from 10 AM – 12 noon AND Saturday April 13, 2019 from 10 AM – 12 noon Location: Parkview…

2018 Season Ends

We ended the 2018 season with a damp and cold day on Saturday, October 27th, but 18 hardy souls ventured out how to help with our garden clean up. Markus O’Brien…

Food bank donation

Fall Garden Clean-Up Day October 27, 2018

Saturday, October 27, starting at 9:30 Volunteers are needed for our annual clean-up day, as we prepare the garden for the winter. We will spend the early part of the day removing…