Victory Gardens
1. What? Victory gardens are vegetable gardens planted during a war by those staying at home. The idea is that, with reduced productivity on farms
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April 16, 2020
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More About Potatoes
How to save and store true potato seeds After flowering, some pollinated potatoes will produce seeds, or true seeds as they are called to differentiate them from
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February 26, 2020
Garden Salad
Plant some spring with a salad bowl garden The garden-fresh taste of salad greens picked from your own garden after a long dreary winter is one of the
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February 18, 2020
Wild Strawberry
Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area and, while they don’t fruit
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February 6, 2020
About Container Gardening
1. Vegetables. It used to be that just about the only edibles that people grew in containers were herbs and tomatoes. Now you can grow
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January 31, 2020
About Herbs
1. Herb or ‘erb? Dropping the h-sound at the beginning of “herb” is an American affectation, so if you’re from south of the border, you
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January 24, 2020
Growing Grains
Most people don’t grow grains – wheat, oats and barley in their back yards, but why not? If your space is large enough, it might
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November 14, 2019
Spinach Recipe
David’s Spinach with coconut cream and shrimp recipe If you’ve never liked spinach, then get ready for a recipe revelation. This is one of the
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November 13, 2019
Growing Shallots
Shallots are not the most commonly grown vegetable in Canada, perhaps because the maturity date for bulbs can be as long as 120 days. But
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November 13, 2019