About Bananas
1. It’s a berry. A strawberry isn’t, a raspberry isn’t, but a banana is a berry, botanically speaking. So are tomatoes, grapes and eggplants. A
Shauna Dobbie
March 31, 2021
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About Pussy Willows
1. Dyngus Day. Pussy willows were a player on Easter Monday or Wet Monday, a Polish celebration also known in the United States as Dyngus
Canada's Local Gardener
March 25, 2021
About Compost
1. What every good compost pile needs. Nothing can happen to a compost heap unless it has carbon (brown and dry organic material) for energy,
Canada's Local Gardener
March 18, 2021
About Skunks
1. Skunk diet. Skunks have a varied diet that includes roots, seeds and berries; small mice, birds and eggs; and, of course, grubs. If you’ve
Canada's Local Gardener
March 11, 2021
Latin Names
1. The point. Horticulturists refer to plants by their Latin names for reasons far beyond being snobbish (though the occasional plant person can be a
Canada's Local Gardener
March 4, 2021
Edible Garden
1. Plants feed the world. Only plants know how to change the energy of the sun into digestible, edible protein and they do this with
Canada's Local Gardener
February 25, 2021
About Orchids
1. Gardener, put down that watering can! More windowsill orchids die from drowning than any other cause. Just because many of them grow in humid
Canada's Local Gardener
February 19, 2021
About Roses
1. Prickle or thorn, it still hurts. Technically, roses have prickles. Thorns are modified leaves containing vascular strands of the plant (the system that moves
Canada's Local Gardener
February 10, 2021
About Edible Weeds
Purslane 1. Move over spinach. Purslane, sometimes called portulaca, is an edible weed. It has 10 times the Omega 3 fatty acids found in spinach,
Dorothy Dobbie
February 3, 2021
About Sesame
1. Open sesame. Ali Baba overheard this magical phrase as he watched the 40 Thieves enter their cave of stolen goods; however, the pods of
Canada's Local Gardener
January 28, 2021