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Our full service leaves your garden completely at peace.

• motorless machinery and hand tools
• consistent attention to detail
• separate crew dedicated to refined maintenance
• run by Don Moffatt: 15 years in the industry
• weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and seasonal service

When you need a new gardener, or need to replace your old one, feel free to entrust your property to experienced hands that leave no plant untouched.
Experience means garden wisdom, along with the knowledge of timing. Knowing when to cut the plant and by how much helps create and keep that perfect look.

Many homeowners neglect the finer details due to limited time in the garden, while many companies cut corners due to scheduling and contract conflicts.
Rest assured, our meticulous maintenance is always complete.

We offer optional outsourcing for electric mowers & blowers for large properties only.

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We artistically remake used products into custom garden installations.

• wine crate planter boxes
• worm composters made from wine pails
• rain barrels from reused oak barrels and water barrels
• planter boxes from oak barrels
• upcycled year round mobile greenhouses

The Greener Side sticks to its name when we say we upcycle waste products. And why not?
There is no good reason we shouldn’t be using perfectly useable plastic and oak barrels, wine pails and wooden wine crates.

As long as it looks nice, we will use re-use the product. And on the topic of appearance we have a range of customizations available for your discerning taste.

Our new 225 litre vertical planter, called YUG for Your Urban Garden, naturally comes in terra cotta colour. Blue is available for smaller container sizes. If blue or orange is unappealing we can tile or paint the barrel as you like.
For example a disco planter is perfect for balconies. Comes with mirror tile on a vertical planter, complete with wheels or turntable for 360 degree rotation.

The sky’s the limit for your plants when you have the right containers to hold them, the right soil to make them prosper and the right vision to make it work for you!

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Providing full service edible garden expertise.

• design
• timeline sketches
• installation
• maintenance
• coaching
• coursebooks
• bulk organic soil

Our resident edible garden expert has 8 years experience running and managing mixed crop organic farms in Ontario, BC and Guatemala.
6 years experience in back yard and restaurant gardens adds to the portfolio.
The Greener Side’s first gardening book, due end of March 2010, is meant to help simplify the artful science of urban agriculture, and to help start the process of skill transfer.
“Your Urban Edible Garden Coursebook” completes our edible garden portfolio.

Farming is rarely a prosperous endeavour, so over the seasons, great skill was gathered in growing well on a shoe-string budget.
Time spent in Toronto back yards has also shown us how to make vegetable gardens look like a vision from a dream come true.

Whatever the budget, we design, install and maintain urban edible gardens with the skill to make them grow right, and the vision to make it look right.

The urban edible gardens we work with generally range from 5 to 2500 sq feet. VIDEO LINK

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A garden is only as good the plants in it. Taking care of the plants in your garden requires a functioning health strategy that’s both preventative and corrective. Ensuring overall vitality and health goes a long way towards preventing future plant health issues.

Preventative plant care comes as:

• proper pruning
• quality soil and plants to create a healthy soil food web
• proper plant location
• watering to match the plants needs

Corrective plant care comes as:

• plant cut backs
• garden makeovers and plant relocation
• solid and liquid applications to deter bugs and combat disease

We offer all of the above as part of our services.

In particular,

The Greener Side Preventative-Corrective Organic Plant Health Programs have been created to naturally prolong the quality and longevity of the plants in your garden.
We use an array of natural products to create our custom plant health applications for your garden.

Our regular program is a season long preventative mix that builds up the immunity of the plants, enhances microbial activity in the soil, and is best used in conjunction with recommended top dressing.
Our custom program is everything above plus the added service of offering corrective spray mixes as needed on an ongoing basis.
This is useful when you know you have a certain bug or disease issue every year and want help with it.
Our one time program is a combination of solid and liquid organic fertilizers to help bring your garden back to life and back to balance.

The ingredients we use in our organic amendments are:
Organic Worm Compost
Earthworms
Plant Growth Stimulators such as Kelp, Alfalfa, Mycorrhizal Fungi
Purified water
AACT (Premium Composts blended with Inoculants, Fulvic Acid, Humic Acid, Kelp)
Ocean Minerals
Effective Micro-organisms
Citric Acid
and
Neem oil
Horticultural Oil
Insecticidal Soap
Sulphur
Botanicals

Pricing (up to 1500 sq ft):
$85   1 time: aerated compost tea
$130 1 time: aerated compost tea and up to 3 natural fungicide/pesticides
$240 3 times: aerated compost tea ($80/ per)
$360 3 times: aerated compost tea and up to 3 natural fungicide/pesticides ($120/ per)
$350 5 times: aerated compost tea ($75/ per)
$550 5 times: aerated compost tea and up to 3 natural fungicide/pesticides ($110/ per)
$490 7 times: aerated compost tea ($70/ per)
$700 7 times: aerated compost tea and up to 3 natural fungicide/pesticides ($100/ per)

Please call 416.877.2560 or email info@thegreenerside.ca to book a garden consultation today.

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Professionally servicing your gardens’ health naturally.

• preventive programs and corrective applications
• EM (Effective Micro-organisms)
• minerals, rock dusts and other organic amendments
• worm castings
• AACT
• indoor-outdoor composters

True organics by default equals sustainability. But when organics are trucked in from half way around the world, is the benefit defeated?

We start by taking your lawn and garden off of drugs by amending and treating the soil and plants with all organic inputs.
After we correct deficiencies in the soil and garden we then offer

• preventative plant health programs
• on site methods of generating and sustaining plant and garden health, such as companion plantings and indoor-outdoor composters.

Once your garden produces its own plant food and sustains itself from within, you have a self-regulating and sustainable garden. To complete this process takes at least 2-3 years.

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Fixing neglected and overlooked gardens. Planting the garden you were looking for.

• major and minor clean-ups
• soil removal
• grading
• trimming and pruning
• ornamental and native plantings
• reseeding and resodding
• tasteful urns

We get call after call to help uncover the greener side of the garden from underneath all the weeds, crappy soil and overgrown plants.
We have quietly become experts in one time and multi year artistic makeovers. We have the right tools to remove all the extra stuff that keeps your garden from looking right.

When that job is done, we can replant the garden you were looking for.
We install ornamental, native and edible gardens. We reseed and resod lawns.

If you’re selling your home or just moved into a new home, we can design and install an aesthetic showpiece that suits your needs and budget.