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Canada's Local Gardener Podcast Episode 1: seeds

Episode 1: Seeds

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

sowing seeds

Sowing Seeds

By Mark MacDonald Getting a head start on spring, scores of farm crops have been cultivated for centuries through the annual and laborious practice of

starting your own seeds

Starting Your Own Seeds

I used to say that gardeners should start seeds in their homes mainly because it’s fun. I don’t say that any more. Now I say

10 neat things about starting seeds

Starting Seeds

1. Inhibitors. Starting plants from seeds are not always easy. Some seeds, like tomatoes, come from the mother plant coated with enzymes that actually inhibit

seed balls

Seed Heads

By Dorothy Dobbie It isn’t often that you grow a plant mainly for its seed heads, but some are so spectacular, you may want to

To plant seeds or buy plants

Plant Seeds or Buy Plants?

For the past decade, gardeners have been under the spell of major seed producers who continue to deliver ever more fantastic annuals and ever-blooming perennials.

Planting Herbs from Seeds

Gardening with kids: Starting herbs for spring By Tania Moffat During the frozen winter months my hands just itch to be in dirt. I satisfy

planting seedlings indoors

Growing Seeds Indoors

Nothing serves as a rite of passage for novice gardener more than the impassioned, ever-hopeful activity of growing tiny seeds indoors in the dead of

Canada's Local Gardener Podcast Episode 1: seeds

Episode 1: Seeds

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