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About Parsley

July 21, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3134 Views companion plants, curly parsley, flat leaf parsley, garden herbs, Medicinal plants, Parsley, parsley growth, parsley in the medicine patch, Plant Care, salad

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

Edibles Gardening Science

A Quebec Family Analyses a Year of Data

July 6, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2128 Views ecological gardening, food production, food savings, gardening labour, greenhouses, harvest data, Homegrown produce, Quebec family, self-sufficiency, subsistence gardening

How much work does it take to grow most of the produce our Quebec family eats in a year? How

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Plants Wild Flowers

About Native Wildflowers

June 30, 2022 Shauna Dobbie 2588 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 Edibles Plants

About Cabbages

May 26, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2927 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

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Trees & Shrubs

About Raspberries

May 5, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 4291 Views edible berries, pruning

1. Oh Ida, how red your blood. Raspberries, Greek mythology has it, were once white. Then along came Zeus’ nursemaid,

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Honeyberries

April 6, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3329 Views antioxidant-rich, edible berries, fruit gardening, hardy shrubs, haskap, Plant Care, Pollination, summer harvest, vitamin C

Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth?

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants Vines

About Grapes

March 31, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3225 Views grape colors, grapevine history, pruning, raisins, red wine, resveratrol, Sour grapes, sultanas, Vitis riparia, wild grapes

1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Plants

About Sunflowers

March 10, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 2956 Views allelopathy, Fibonacci sequence, heliotropism, nuclear remediation, pollinators, sunflower growth, sunflower oil, sunflower roots, sunflowers, Ukraine

1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Rosemary

March 3, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 3355 Views Culinary Herbs, herb of remembrance, kitchen herb, Mediterranean herb, Propagation, Rosemary, rosemary flowers, sunlight, traditional uses, water drainage

1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Artichokes

December 16, 2021 Canada's Local Gardener 2820 Views ancient vegetables, artichoke history, artichoke preparation, Artichokes, California artichokes, Cynara scolymus, healthy eating, Marilyn Monroe, New Orleans

1. Eating flower babies. An artichoke is the bud of the flowerhead of Cynara scolymus, a plant with lovely violet-blue

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