About Honeyberries
Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth? Honeyberry or haskap (Lonicera caerulea) is an
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April 6, 2022
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About Grapes
1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox tries vainly to reach some
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March 31, 2022
Chicken talk with Lisa Steele
Lisa Steele of the website Fresh Eggs Daily visit with Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie to talk about gardening with chickens. Lisa is a 5th-generation chicken
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March 30, 2022
Early Spring Flowers
1. Hellebores. One of the early spring flowers, Hellebores, are poisonous, as are many plants in the garden. The sap and seeds, interestingly, will turn
Shauna Dobbie
March 24, 2022
Talk About Wildflowers
Hosts Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie talk to Kelly Leask about the wonderful world of wildflowers. Wildflowers nourish bees and other pollinators Kelly Leask of Prairie
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March 16, 2022
Invasive Insects on Trees
Dorothy and Shauna talk with arbourist Ryan Statham about invasive insects and trees. Ryan is an arbourist with Davey Canada, a company that specializes in
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March 10, 2022
About Sunflowers
1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted by Peter the Great in
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March 10, 2022
Veseys Seeds and Spring 2022
John Barrett started with growing sunflowers on two acres with the vague idea of selling sunflower seeds, but that first year was a disaster with
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March 4, 2022
About Rosemary
1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is from the Latin: ros, meaning
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March 3, 2022
Sunflowers for Ukraine
Sunflowers are Ukraine’s National flower. Many young men, fathers and grandfathers have left their families behind, picked up arms to defend Ukraine against the Russian
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March 2, 2022