10 Neat Things

1. Leaf it be. We used to spend backbreaking hours raking leaves off our lawns in fall, piling them into bags and carrying them off

Canada's Local Gardener September 25, 2019

1. The lungs of the world. Trees produce oxygen in exchange for carbon dioxide. A large tree puts out enough oxygen to sustain four people

Canada's Local Gardener September 23, 2019

1. Ground huggers, skyscrapers. Weeds are plants with an indomitable will to live – they are tough and strong and strategic. They can hug the

Canada's Local Gardener September 19, 2019

1. Clingstone or freestone. When you eat a peach and the flesh comes neatly away from the pit, that is a freestone. With clingstone types,

Canada's Local Gardener September 12, 2019

1. The roots don’t reach to China. Many tree planting failures can be traced to digging the planting hole too deep. The hole should only

Canada's Local Gardener September 9, 2019

Eyes 1. Those eyes have seen a lot of… Most spiders have eight eyes, and they see a lot. In fact, their vision from the

Canada's Local Gardener September 6, 2019

1. They are so pomaceous! Pome is from the Latin word for fruit, pomun, but in our world, we apply this term only to certain

Dorothy Dobbie August 29, 2019

1. Water, water everywhere. Water in the garden is such a natural fit that every garden should have some. You can go big with a

Canada's Local Gardener August 25, 2019

1. Corn is grass. Zea mays, the Latin name for maize, which is the farming name for corn, is a cereal grain, and like most

Dorothy Dobbie August 22, 2019

1. The bird that bites. Harmonia axridis, better known as the Asian ladybug or ladybird, has a number of anti-human habits and one of these

Canada's Local Gardener August 15, 2019

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