Should You Really Start Potatoes From Sprouts?
By starting potatoes from sprouts, you may facilitate the spread of late blight disease. Photo: ZooFari, Wikimedia Commons I haveContinue Reading
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Let’s Make 2022 Canada’s Year of the Garden
Here is some information about a project close to my heart: making 2022 the Year of the Garden in Canada. Continue Reading
Year of the Hardy Hibiscus
Every year, the National Garden Bureau, a non-profit organization promoting the pleasures of home gardening, selectsfive special plants to celebrate. Let’s look one ofContinue Reading
Garden Myth: Add Sand to Lighten Clay Soil
Contrary to popular belief, adding sand to a clay soil will not lighten it. In fact, it will make itContinue Reading
How to Grow a Florist’s Gloxinia
Florist’s gloxinia ‘Kaiser Wilhelm’, by far the most popular variety. Photo: bakker-hillegom.nl The florist’s gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) is most often grownContinue Reading
DIY: How to Arrange a Wildlife-Friendly Edge in Your Garden
You can easily invite wildlife into your garden. Photo: Jardins de fleurs Article by Kimberley Cornish Does your heart beatContinue Reading
Sowing and Recycling Should Go Hand in Hand
When starting seeds, you can use a whole range of recycled products. Photo: countrylivinginacariboovalley.com In the Northern Hemisphere, March isContinue Reading
Top 10 Reasons to Garden
By Janis Kiefet, for the National Gardening Bureau Mobile phones, tablets and apps have become the tools of our modern lives.Continue Reading
Time to Take Cuttings of Your Cuttings
With spring just around the corner, it’s time to take cuttings of overwintering annuals. Photo: gardenofeaden.blogspot.com If you’re like me,Continue Reading
When Two Different Pears Cross, Does It Change their Taste?
If a Ussurian pear (left) is pollinated by a ‘Flemish Beauty’ European pear (right), will it take on its taste?Continue Reading