Wisdom Gleaned from Nature
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Styrofoam As A Drainage Layer: Useful Or Dangerous?
Stéphanie wrote to me a few weeks ago to ask whether it was dangerous to put Styrofoam in the bottomContinue Reading
BaNQ’s Gardening Book Of The Month: February 2025
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)’s monthly gardening e-book suggestion. Murder Most Florid Inside the Mind of a ForensicContinue Reading
Top 10: The Worst Houseplants For Beginners
There is a wide variety of houseplants available to someone just starting out. It’s easy to get lost. Big-box stores,Continue Reading
Towards Food Self-sufficiency… Thanks To Seedlings
In these troubled economic times, one of the best ways to save money is to grow your own vegetables. WithContinue Reading
The Laidback Vegetable Garden, For Greater Biodiversity
The term “biodiversity” is on everyone’s lips these days, a sign of growing environmental awareness. In the media, from radioContinue Reading
That’s Not A Swiss Cheese Plant!
Swiss cheese plants (Monstera deliciosa) have always been among gardeners’ favorite houseplants. However, many plants have characters that make usContinue Reading
Garden Maintenance: The Number One Enemy Of The Ever-aging Gardener!
Attention! You don’t have to be old to hate maintenance tasks: weeding, hoeing, watering and all the other things thatContinue Reading
The Not-so-sleepy Life Under The Snow
A still, quiet winter morning. Everything is asleep, on pause. I wish I could accompany this article with the smellContinue Reading
Discovering Botanical Families: Rosaceae
Our first foray into the world of botanical families begins today with the no less famous Rosaceae family. If they’reContinue Reading