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10 Neat Things About Celery

May 5, 2024 Shauna Dobbie 877 Views ancient Greece, Black Celery Festival, Celery, cooling effect, diuretic properties, growing celery, harvest tips, Nemean Games, vegetable nutrition, Victorian aphrodisiac

1. A revered plant. In ancient times, celery wreaths were used as awards for winning athletes in the Nemean Games,

10 neat things about seeds

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10 Neat Things About Seeds

April 22, 2024 Dorothy Dobbie 3839 Views cotyledon, F1 hybrids, gardening tips, heirloom seeds, plant biology, Plant growth, seed germination, seed nutrition, seeds, sunflower seeds

1. Nuts and eggs are seeds, too. Although we don’t often think of them like this, eggs and nuts are

art of growing potatotes

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The Art of Growing Potatoes

March 10, 2024 Shauna Dobbie 8221 Views container gardening, growing potatoes, hilling potatoes, how to plant potatoes, potato care, potato harvest, potatoes, seed potatoes, soil temperature, where to plant potatoes

Have we lost the art of growing potatoes? At one time, every garden had a potato plot where it was

10 neat things about eggplants

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10 Neat Things About Eggplants

February 17, 2024 Shauna Dobbie 2541 Views aubergine, eggplant history, eggplant preparation, eggplant varieties, eggplants, fruit vs vegetable, growing eggplants, health benefits, nutritional value, Solanum melongena

1. Madde apple, apple of insanity. These are just two of the terms used to describe eggplant over time, perhaps

Edibles Editor's Pick Feature Story Plants

Indoor Tomatoes Year Round

November 22, 2023 Shauna Dobbie 1154 Views Compact tomato varieties, Grow tent, Homegrown produce, Humidity levels, Indoor Gardening, LED grow lights, Pollination, Temperature control, tomatoes, Year-round growing

I think about indoor vegetable growing a lot. I’m not into cannabis but I am into tomatoes. When tomatoes go

Edibles How-to Plants

Asparagus: Health benefits of a spring sprout

May 31, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1354 Views asparagus, Dorothy Dobbie, healthydiet, spring sprout

By Dorothy Dobbie Love your first feed of asparagus in springtime? No wonder. Here’s a short list of the health-giving

Top-Pick Herbs for the Kitchen Garden

May 2, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 4174 Views Edibles, herb garden, herbs, kitchen herbs

Basil (Ocimum sp.) Basil is a winning herb: it is available in a smorgasbord of classic and worldly flavours and

Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Indoor plants Perennials Plants

What’s New and What’s Hot: Trends for 2023

April 11, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1546 Views Cinquefoil, Fruit Salad Mango, Incarvilllea delavayii, Kangaroo Paw, Leucanthemum Carpet Angel, Oxalis corymbosa aureo reticulata, Oxalis versicolor, Petunia Evening Scentsation, Potentilla, Scarlet Dreams, Siberian Tiger Hosta, Sicilian Honey garlic, snapdragon, White Feather Hosta

Note: Seed produced by F1 hybrid plants may not produce offspring true to the parent. As the year unfolds, gardeners

Edibles Garden Fresh Recipes Plants

It’s About Thyme

March 27, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1265 Views Edibles, enlish thyme, Woolly thyme

By Dorothy Dobbie Thyme is a wonderful herb used in cooking but also in many medicinal and cosmetic products. Today,

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

10 Neat Things About Rhubarb

February 21, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2158 Views edible plants, Plants, rhubarb

1. The bitter truth, and neat thing, about rhubarb. Rhubarb lovers may lament it and disagree, but the truth is

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