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10 Neat Things

garden of corinne

Beautiful Gardens New Brunswick

Garden of Corinne Hersey

April 25, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1132 Views community gardening, Corinne Hersey, food sovereignty, foraging, Natural Capital Gardens, pollinator habitat, sustainable gardening, urban gardening, vegetable garden, wild edibles

Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie Everybody gardens for their own reasons, and for Corinne, those reasons are for food

10 neat things about soil

10 Neat Things Gardening Science

About Soil

April 21, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1419 Views compost, gardening tips, microorganisms, organic material, plant nutrition, pollinators, potting mix, soil conservation, soil ecology, soil health

1. You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. Fortunately, that old saying does not apply to

10 neat things about crocus

About Crocus

April 13, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2407 Views corms, Crocuses, fall-blooming, gardening tips, naturalizing, Plant Care, prairie crocus, saffron, spring flowers, squirrels

1. Plural. You can say “crocuses”, “croci” or “crocus” when you have more than one. Personally, I think “crocuses” is

10 neat things about honeyberries

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Honeyberries

April 6, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2180 Views antioxidant-rich, berry recipes, fruit gardening, hardy shrubs, haskap, Honeyberries, Plant Care, Pollination, summer harvest, vitamin C

Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth?

10 neat things about grapes

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Vines

About Grapes

March 31, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1668 Views grape colors, grapevine history, grapevine pruning, raisins, red wine, resveratrol, Sour grapes, sultanas, Vitis riparia, wild grapes

1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox

Season 2 Episode 4 Gardening with Chickens

CLG Podcast Local Gardener

Chicken talk with Lisa Steele

March 30, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1651 Views Chicken farming, chicken sexing, ducks, egg recipes, Fresh Eggs Daily, gardening with chickens, geese, Lisa Steele, raising chickens, roosters

Lisa Steele of the website Fresh Eggs Daily visit with Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie to talk about gardening with chickens.

10 neat things about early spring flowers

10 Neat Things Annuals Bulbs Flowers Perennials Trees & Shrubs

Early Spring Flowers

March 24, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1612 Views crocus, daffodils, forsythia, hellebores, Pansies, prairie crocus, primula, Pulsatilla, scilla, snowdrops, spring flowers

1. Hellebores. One of the early spring flowers, Hellebores, are poisonous, as are many plants in the garden. The sap

Talk about Wildflowers

CLG Podcast Plants Wild Flowers

Talk About Wildflowers

March 16, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1581 Views Bee Balm, big bluestem, Canada anemone, Kelly Leask, native plants, pollinators, Prairie Originals, Purple coneflower, swamp milkweed, wildflowers

Hosts Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie talk to Kelly Leask about the wonderful world of wildflowers. Wildflowers nourish bees and other

CLG Podcast S2Ep2 Invasive Insects on Trees

CLG Podcast CLG Podcast Insects Local Gardener Plants

Invasive Insects on Trees

March 10, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1416 Views BTK, emerald ash borer, gypsy moth, Invasive insects, LDD caterpillar, neem oil, oak wilt disease, Ryan Statham, Trees, urban forestry

Dorothy and Shauna talk with arbourist Ryan Statham about invasive insects and trees. Ryan is an arbourist with Davey Canada,

10 neat things about sunflowers

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Plants

About Sunflowers

March 10, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1930 Views allelopathy, Fibonacci sequence, heliotropism, nuclear remediation, pollinators, sunflower growth, sunflower oil, sunflower roots, sunflowers, Ukraine

1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted

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