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Starting Tomatoes

Starting tomatoes from seeds seems like an easy thing to do, but once you actually do it, there are a

By Shauna Dobbie Are you starting your very first garden? Congratulations! There are several little details to help you get

Well-cultured lawns have several beneficial features. They filter and clean water and return it to the water table. In urban

Long before chemical fertilizers and pesticides appeared, there were planting companions where farmers and gardeners knew that certain plants grow

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing

Pets love gardens. They react to gardens as much as we do, becoming euphoric and running through the plants, smelling

I used to say that gardeners should start seeds in their homes mainly because it’s fun. I don’t say that

What’s the difference between galls and fungus growths? Galls are out-growths on plant material that can be caused by (rarely)

By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so

Pollen is a wonderful, protein-rich particle, much prized by queen bees, but especially important to plant fertilization because it carries