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About Tomato Troubles

August 27, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4653 Views Blossom drop, Blossom end rot, Catfacing, Cracking, Early blight, Fusarium wilt, Sun scald, Tomato hygiene, Tomato troubles, Verticillium wilt

1. Blossom end rot. This is one tomato trouble that is a source of frustration to many first-time growers! Blossom

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About Strawberries

July 3, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3727 Views Brain function, False fruit, Global cultivation, health benefits, Low-calorie snacks, strawberries, Strawberry history, Strawberry planting, Strawberry salad, Strawberry seeds

1. The strawberry isn’t a berry. It isn’t even a fruit. Botanically speaking, the strawberry is a false fruit because

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Asian Greens

June 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2849 Views Asian greens, Bok choi, cool weather crops, Garden vegetables, Lemon grass, Malabar spinach, Mizuna, Mustard greens, Tatsoi, Vietnamese coriander

A shrinking globe brought Asian vegetables to prominence in North America. Tourists, soldiers returning from the Korean and Vietnam wars,

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About Brassicas

June 11, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3995 Views Brassicas, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, Collard greens, Gai lan, Kale, Kohlrabi, Romanesco

Watch for an article on these vegetables in the summer issue of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine! 1. All the

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About Berries

May 21, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 6131 Views blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cranberries, currants, gooseberries, Honeyberries, raspberries, saskatoon berries, strawberry facts

Gooseberries are true berries Raspberries Blackberries Saskatoon berries Blueberries Currants Honeyberries Cranberries 1. A tomato is a berry, a blueberry

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About Beans

April 24, 2020 Shauna Dobbie 4011 Views Beans, edible legumes, favomancy, green manure, legumes, mung bean sprouts, nitrogen fixing, Phaseolus vulgaris, pulses, raw beans

1. Bean, legume or pulse? All three words mean the same thing but in different ways. “Bean” can refer to

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Victory Gardens

April 16, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4670 Views backyard gardening, COVID-19 gardening, food security, gardening during hardship, grow your own food, historical gardening, ictory gardens, sustainable gardening, wartime gardening, WWII gardening

1. What? Victory gardens are vegetable gardens planted during a war by those staying at home. The idea is that,

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More About Potatoes

February 26, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2954 Views early potatoes, fingerling potatoes, gardening tips, mashed potatoes, potato storage, potato varieties, potatoes, T&T Seeds, true potato seeds, Yukon Gold

How to save and store true potato seeds After flowering, some pollinated potatoes will produce seeds, or true seeds as they

Edibles How-to Plants

February 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3079 Views companion plants, gardening tips, growing potatoes, hilling potatoes, potato care, potato harvest, potato planting, potato storage, potatoes, seed potatoes

They are the fourth largest food crop in the world, packed with nutrition, easy to grow and very versatile in

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Garden Salad

February 18, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2490 Views arugula, container gardening, garden salad, leafy greens, mesclun mix, microgreens, pea tendrils, radishes, salad greens, spinach

Plant some spring with a salad bowl garden The garden-fresh taste of salad greens picked from your own garden after a long dreary

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