Edging Today, Hammock Tomorrow
To achieve a laidback garden, you often need to do a little work beforehand. It may seem counterintuitive, but toContinue Reading
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Perennials With Decorative Foliage to Enhance Your Garden!
With the wide range of colors of certain perennials and so many possibilities of shapes and textures, when foliage playsContinue Reading
Japanese Knotweed: Choosing Your Battles
In a recent post on this blog, I debunked eight myths about Japanese knotweed, an invasive plant that is certainlyContinue Reading
Curiosity in the Garden: Peanuts Grow Upside Down!
Do you remember those little flaky peanuts you used to buy at the campground convenience store? You know, the onesContinue Reading
Gardening Myth: De-leafing Tomato Plants
At the end of the summer, my father always stripped the upper leaves off his tomato plants so the fruitsContinue Reading
Fertilizing Orchids: Carelessness and Delirium
Orchid enthusiasts are generally well-informed and fairly rational. However, when it comes to fertilization, they suddenly fall into a stateContinue Reading
New Plant Hardiness Map for Canada
When choosing plants for your garden, you take all sorts of factors into account: sunlight, soil type, humidity, etc. But theContinue Reading
Bees’ Favorite Plants
Attracting pollinators of all kinds is a critical mission in this decade, driven by climate change and ecosystem disruptions. AndContinue Reading
Answers to Your Questions: Tomatoes That Aren’t Growing, Spirea to Be Moved
Tomato That Won’t Grow My tomato plant is sick. What’s wrong with it? Is the soil contaminated? Is excess moistureContinue Reading
Why Is Corn Hairy?
Even though it’s a very common vegetable in our country and we have a lot of it, one question/irritant remains:Continue Reading