Vitamin Daily

You’ve had success with tulips and even conquered your fear of pruning the rose bush. But when it comes to growing tomatoes, carrots or cucumbers, your green thumb is nowhere to be found.

Release your inner gardening goddess with tips from the City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing. The humorous new book by Toronto author Lorraine Johnson will show you how to grow radishes on your rooftop and tomatoes on the balcony. What could be fresher for the summer than a salad of your own making?

Now all that’s left to do is sit back with a glass of white and enjoy the fruits of your labour.

$14.40 at Amazon.ca

The book launch for City Farmer: Adventures in Urban Food Growing is tomorrow at Wychwood Barns (6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.), www.torontoartscape.on.ca