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Keeping Pets Safe in the Garden

September 10, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 4831 Views Animals, Local Gardener, Manitoba Gardener, Pets, safe garden

Nobody loves the garden more than our pets. Small dogs come in from their forays adorned with petunia blossoms caught

Gardening for Beginners How-to

Different Types of Mulch

September 10, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 7618 Views Gardening for Beginners, Local Gardener

The many facets of Mulch Mulch is a material that covers the soil and/or plants. When spread on soil in

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When to Work the Garden Soil

September 10, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 2443 Views Gardening for Beginners, Local Gardener, Manitoba Gardener

Fall is an ideal time to work on improvements to the soil in your garden beds and to the garden

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Bulbs, Corms and Tubers

September 10, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 5493 Views Bulbs, Gardening for Beginners, Local Gardener, Plants

What is the difference between bulbs, corms and tubers? And what about all those other things? To start, they are

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Rabbit habits

September 9, 2016 Dorothy Dobbie 3684 Views Animals, rabbits, Wild Critters

Rabbit deities appear in mythology as tricksters and fertility symbols. What childless couple wouldn’t want to be able to “breed

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Deer Repellents That Work

September 9, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 6738 Views Animals, Wild Critters

Deer, and rabbit, has been a headache to a lot of gardeners. We always look for different deer repellants that

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Frogs

September 9, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 2932 Views Animals, Local Gardener, Wild Critters

When I was a kid, grownups used to call us “tads” – for tadpole, I guess. And we certainly had

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Garden Scents

September 9, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 2620 Views Flowers, fragrant flowers, Local Gardener, Plants

Brilliant colour, florid bloom, exotic foliage: all of these are important to the garden. But garden scents can stimulate an

Feathered Friends: The Blue Jay

September 9, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 3648 Views Animals, Birds

The talkative blue jay By Sherrie Versluis One of the most popular and widely recognized backyard birds is the blue

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Tips on Weeding

September 9, 2016 Canada's Local Gardener 4277 Views Gardening for beginners, gardening how-to, Local Gardener, video about weeding

Here’s a little video for you, with tips on weeding those pesky dandelions that somehow manage to appear year after