Colour in the garden
As the days grow shorter and the air begins to cool, gardeners can rely on late summer annuals to keep their gardens lively and colourful.
Canada's Local Gardener
July 21, 2025
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Fluffy vandals: 10 Neat Things about Garden Rabbits
What to do if you find a rabbit nest.
It’s common to find baby cottontails (called kits) in a shallow nest lined with fur and grass, often right in the middle of a lawn or flower bed. If the babies are uninjured and the nest is intact, the best thing to do is leave it alone. The mother only visits a few times a day to avoid attracting predators. You can gently cover it back up the way you found it. Most kits are weaned and gone within three weeks.
Canada's Local Gardener
April 17, 2025
Flora & Fauna Episode 16: Nutrients in the garden with Robert Pavlis
Did you know that you can give too much compost to your garden? Also, there isn’t a “best” fertilizer for tomatoes or roses or trees. Robert Pavlis
Canada's Local Gardener
August 12, 2024
Garden Primer: All about fertilizer
Plants require macro nutrients, of which the big three in most fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, followed by calcium, iron, magnesium and sulphur, along
Canada's Local Gardener
May 28, 2024
An Attempt to Appreciate Slugs
Nobody likes slugs. Well, nobody except, maybe, five-year-old boys. For gardeners, they chew holes in foliage and leave a very difficult-to-wash-off slime on your gloves
Canada's Local Gardener
January 30, 2023
What About Worms?
Worms are really just dirt processing factories toiling away underground night and day. They eat dead organic material such as plant debris, bacteria, algae and
Canada's Local Gardener
November 15, 2019
About Good Bugs in the Garden
1. Best bug. For overall best bug performance in the garden, the award goes to the humble ladybug. This pretty favourite of all children is
Canada's Local Gardener
September 25, 2019
About Spiders
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
About Dragonflies
Do you have dragonflies in your garden? Here are 10 neat things about these cool dragonflies. https://youtu.be/xnO8Uk3bmsY 1. Do dragonflies bite? Dragonflies do bite, although
Canada's Local Gardener
August 15, 2019
About Earthworms
1. Names. Earthworms are of many different species. The common one we tend to recognize as an earthworm is Lumbricus terrestris, which, although it is
Canada's Local Gardener
February 5, 2019