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About Beans

April 24, 2020 Shauna Dobbie 3798 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

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

Victory Gardens

April 16, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4500 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,

Edibles Plants

More About Potatoes

February 26, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2786 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 2934 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

Edibles Plants

Garden Salad

February 18, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 2347 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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Wild Strawberry

February 6, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 8291 Views Edibles, Local content, wild strawberry

Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area

10 Neat Things Edibles Plants

About Container Gardening

January 31, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 3501 Views bean varieties, cantaloupe for small spaces, carrot varieties, container gardening, cucumber in containers, growing corn in pots, growing vegetables in containers, lettuce for containers, onions in pots, pumpkins in containers

1. Vegetables. It used to be that just about the only edibles that people grew in containers were herbs and

10 Neat Things Annuals Edibles Flowers Foliage Perennials

About Herbs

January 24, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener 4319 Views 10 neat things about herbs, how to preserve herbs, what are herbs

1. Herb or ‘erb? Dropping the h-sound at the beginning of “herb” is an American affectation, so if you’re from

Edibles Garden Fresh Recipes

Growing Grains

November 14, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 3293 Views backyard gardening, barley, grain harvesting, grain nutrition, Growing grains, homegrown food, hull-less varieties, oats, sustainable farming, wheat

Most people don’t grow grains – wheat, oats and barley in their back yards, but why not? If your space

Edibles Garden Fresh Recipes

Spinach Recipe

November 13, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener 2552 Views coconut cream, easy recipes, healthy cooking, shrimp dish, shrimp marinade, spinach nutrition, Spinach recipe, tropical flavors, vegetable side dish, vegetarian side dish

David’s Spinach with coconut cream and shrimp recipe If you’ve never liked spinach, then get ready for a recipe revelation.

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