In this week's episode of Down the Garden Path, Matt and Joanne welcome returning guest Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos to discuss digging deep with veggies.

Julia started growing food after having children and fell in love with it!  She gardens organically and tries to keep things simple while growing new and uncommon vegetables each year. Her garden is located in Mono, Ontario, on 25 acres on the Niagara Escarpment. Two years ago, Julia expanded her vegetable garden from 2000 to 7000 square feet, continuing in the formal kitchen garden style.

Julia has been growing vegetables and writing about gardening for over 10 years and has been published twice in the Canadian Organic Grower magazine. She loves to inspire others to have their own vegetable gardens by showing them the simpler side of gardening.

Don't miss our conversation on "digging deep with veggies" with Gardening Girl Julia Dimakos.

Julia answers a few of our questions:

• How is your garden doing?
• What did you do to prepare?
• Once everything is planted in the vegetable garden, do you have advice for what to do next?

Julia discusses her favourite tomato varieties and helps Joanne understand the difference between determinate and indeterminate tomato plants.

She also gives some excellent advice on growing lettuce and answers a listener's question about growing strawberries.

There's so much valuable information in this show, you won't want to miss it!

You can find Julia online here, as well as on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.

Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade.

And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.