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Flora & Fauna Episode 12: Edible flowers with Erin Facer

July 5, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 2214 Views cooking, edible flower, edible flowers, Erin Facer, pasta, salad

The Edible Flower is a thick book with gorgeous photos. Erin and Jo write about how to grow edible flowers (that’s

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Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 9: Monarch Butterflies

June 27, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 2345 Views butterfly garden, Joan Harvey, Julianne Labreche, Master Gardener, migration, Monarch Butterflies

People of all ages become fascinated with the monarch butterfly when they learn about its long flight from Canada to

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Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 8: Mario Doiron and Food Security

June 25, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1770 Views food security

Mario Doiron is a modern homesteader in New Brunswick who raises fowl and grows vegetables on a small farm. Shauna

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Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 7: Growing Bamboo with Garry Heberg

June 20, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1470 Views bamboo, Canadian Gardening, Garry Heberg, shauna dobbie, tropical plants

Bamboo is a kind of plant in the grass family (Poaceae) with over 100 genera. Most of them are tropical,

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Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 6: International Peace Garden

June 20, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1935 Views Dorothy Dobbie, garden symbolism, gardening history, international peace garden, Manitoba, peace garden, shauna dobbie

Join Shauna and Dorothy Dobbie as they explore the beauty and significance of the International Peace Garden, which sits on

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Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 5: Houseplants

June 19, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1892 Views Gardening science, house plants, houseplants, Indoor Gardening, indoor plants, Plant Care

Houseplants clean the air of chemicals, dust and other pollutants. Some specialize in the chemicals they prefer: English ivy, peace

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Flora & Fauna Podcast 4: Indigenous Gardening

June 18, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 2869 Views ecological gardening

For over a century, scientists at the Summerland Research and Development Centre have studied sustainable agriculture in B.C.’s Okanagan region,

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Growing Sweet Potatoes

June 14, 2024 Shauna Dobbie 2278 Views sweet potatoes

Sweet potatoes are densely packed with nutrients, delicious roasted or mashed with a dab of butter, and notoriously too heat-loving

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Garden Primer: All about fertilizer

May 28, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1777 Views aphids prevention, composting, fertilizer, nitrogen, organic gardening, phosphorus, Plant growth, plant nutrients, potassium, soil health

Plants require macro nutrients, of which the big three in most fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, followed by calcium,

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Flora & Fauna Episode 3: Garlic

May 17, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1995 Views garlic

Garlic is grown from bulbs, commonly referred to as “seed garlic”, which is a little confusing since garlic almost never

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