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Edibles Editor's Pick Feature Story Plants

Indoor Tomatoes Year Round

November 22, 2023 Shauna Dobbie 1310 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 1481 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 4347 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

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

April 11, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1715 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 1427 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 2363 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

10 neat things about sea buckthorn

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

10 Neat Things About Sea Buckthorn

September 29, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3370 Views drought tolerant plants, Medicinal plants, nitrogen fixer, Omega-7, radiation burn treatment, Sea buckthorn, Siberian pineapple, skin care, sustainable farming, vitamin C

1. Shiny horse. Sea buckthorn, Hippophae rhamoides, is a shrub or tree, growing eight to 12 feet tall, native to Europe

10 neat things about parsley

10 Neat Things Edibles Foliage Plants

About Parsley

July 21, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 1829 Views curly parsley, flat leaf parsley, garden herbs, herb companion planting, Medicinal plants, Parsley, parsley growth, parsley in the medicine patch, parsley salad, Plant Care

1. Once or twice. Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, is a biennial in temperate zones of the world and an annual in

10 neat things about wildflowers

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Plants Wild Flowers

About Native Wildflowers

June 30, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 1766 Views Baptisia australis, Black-eyed Susan, celandine poppy, gentians, Helenium autumnale, Joe Pye weed, milkweed, Native wildflowers, Purple coneflower, wood lily

1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few

10 neat things about cabbages

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Cabbages

May 26, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2005 Views cabbage, cabbages

1. Cabbage head. Coming from the Middle-English word caboge, which itself probably derived from the French word caboce, both meaning “head”, the word

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