Planting the garden

One of my favourite things about this time of year is getting our garden going.  The best part, is going shopping for the veggies and plants and then of course planting them.  While our 2 year old was at daycare today, my husband and our son ventured to Loblaws Superstore at Victoria Park & Gerard for a coffee and a trip through the garden centre.  Side note - also got gas at Super Bucks which has got to be the best place to get gas around here (south east Scarborough).  It's always cheaper than most places and you also get super bucks towards your groceries.  Can't beat that!  Back to the garden centre... I must say, it is very nice one.  Their selection of vegetable garden plants and herbs is good.  Although it was lacking in varieties of cucumber and tomatoes (unless the kinds I was looking for are no longer around).  I was also disappointed not to find any cilantro as I had previously seen this herb available at Sheriden Nurseries.  The quality of the plants however seemed to be very good and many are available in large sizes.  This is nice as the plants will fruit a lot faster.  I was looking for the old school vegetable plants that come in small containers of four plants for dirt cheap. Surprisingly there was not much of this there.  I'm not sure if this was because they were selling out or if this is yet another way for a box store to make more money.  The bigger the plants, the more $$ they cost!  Also, if you're looking for assistance with your plants, the employees are not very knowledgeable.  Go to Sheriden for that.  All in all though, I give this garden centre an A-.  We even came home with a lemon tree!! If you want A+ though, Sheriden in my opinion is the place to go and prices there are also reasonable (for the plants anyway!).