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10 Neat Things

Seeds

Thinning is winning: Why thinning seedlings leads to a stronger garden

June 18, 2025 Canada's Local Gardener 249 Views

It feels counterintuitive to plant a row of seeds, nurture them to life, and then snip off half their

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10 Neat Things About Plants that Kill

October 31, 2024 Shauna Dobbie 1041 Views plant, toxic

Plants don’t always live up to their gentle, green reputation. Some have evolved lethal mechanisms to survive, capturing prey, and

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10 Neat Things About Seeds

April 22, 2024 Dorothy Dobbie 4121 Views cotyledon, F1 hybrids, gardening tips, heirloom seeds, plant biology, Plant growth, seed germination, seed nutrition, seeds, sunflower seeds

1. Nuts and eggs are seeds, too. Although we don’t often think of them like this, eggs and nuts are

Flowers Gardening for Beginners Local Gardener Seeds

Beautiful and Weird: Flowers to grow from seed

January 10, 2024 Shauna Dobbie 1726 Views Bird’s eyes gilia, Callistephus chinensis, China asters, Chinese forget-me-nots, Cleome, coast west seeds, Cynoglossum, Envy zinnias, Five spot, Italian White, Melinis nerviglumis, Nemophila, Papaver somniferum, Phacelia, poppy, Purple Peony, Purple tansy, Rocky Mountain bee plant, Ruby grass, sunflowers, west coast seeds

If you’re a fan of the weird and uncommon, here are a few flowers from West Coast Seeds you can

Indoor plants Local Gardener Plants Seeds

Picking Seeds for Planting Edibles Indoors

January 2, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 1277 Views burgandy, eggplant, houseplants, Jalapeño, seeds, thai tower, tomato

Indoor planting during the winter months opens up exciting opportunities for cultivating a thriving garden right in the comfort of

10 Neat Things Plants Seeds

10 Neat Things About Winter Berries

November 6, 2023 Shauna Dobbie 8044 Views Bearberries, Beautyberry, Buffaloberry, Holly, Juniper, Mountain ash, Sea buckthorn, Snowberry, Winter berries, Yews

1. What’s a berry? As you will know by now if you read 10 Neat Things frequently, only some berries

Animals Seeds Wild Critters

Feathered Friends: Is your bird seed mix poisoning your birds?

February 25, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 2455 Views Aflatoxin, Animals, Aspergillus flavis, bird seed, birdfeeder, featherfriends, hopper feeder, Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, potent carcinogen, seed, tube feeders

Feathered Friends with Sherrie Versluis Wild bird products are found almost anywhere these days at hardware stores, gardening centres, and

veseys seed and what's new for spring 2022

CLG Podcast Seeds

Veseys Seeds and Spring 2022

March 4, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 4455 Views amaryllis, CFIA, gardening business, John Barrett, PEI, seed potatoes, sunflowers, vegetable seed collection, Veseys Seeds, Year of the Garden

John Barrett started with growing sunflowers on two acres with the vague idea of selling sunflower seeds, but that first

Local Gardener Seeds

Seed Catalogues

January 31, 2022 Canada's Local Gardener 9860 Views canadian gardener, catalogue, catalogues, seed, seeds

Ready, Set, Dream! All the seed catalogues in Canada that we could find. A’Bunadh Seeds seed catalogues> abunadhseeds.com

CLG Podcast Local Gardener Seeds

Episode 1: Seeds

February 25, 2021 Shauna Dobbie 2514 Views

Episode 1: Seeds Episode 1: Seeds! Hosts Shauna and Dorothy Dobbie interview John Barrett of Vesey’s Seeds to learn how

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