Pest Control
Preventing insects and mites from damaging your trees and shrubs By Michael Allen Pest Control In this day and age, gardeners are searching for organic
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Flora & Fauna Episode 13: Growing berries with Sheryl Normandeau and Janet Melrose
Strawberries and raspberries have been growing in gardens across Canada since we became a country. Haskaps, sea buckthorn and ground cherries are more recent introductions
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July 5, 2024
Growing Blueberries
By Shauna Dobbie They are delicious and nutritious, being full of anthocyanins (which are good for you). They’re also native to Canada, so why are
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January 27, 2023
About Raspberries
1. Oh Ida, how red your blood. Raspberries, Greek mythology has it, were once white. Then along came Zeus’ nursemaid, Ida, who pricked her finger
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May 5, 2022
About Honeyberries
Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth? Honeyberry or haskap (Lonicera caerulea) is an
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April 6, 2022
About Thanksgiving
1. Canadian Thanksgiving. It has been held on various dates from May to November, and it doesn’t have the same legendary beginnings as the American
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October 6, 2021
Berries in the garden
Do you ever feel like blueberries are so hard to grow it isn’t worth trying and raspberries are so easy to grow they overrun the
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February 8, 2021
About Honey
1. Regurgitated bee spit. Outside worker bees bring home nectar in their honey stomachs where it is partially processed. Inside that stomach are enzymes that
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September 3, 2020
About Berries
Gooseberries are true berries Raspberries Blackberries Saskatoon berries Blueberries Currants Honeyberries Cranberries 1. A tomato is a berry, a blueberry is not. A berry is
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May 21, 2020
Cranberries
Lowbush cranberry The lowbush cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a North American plant, related to the blueberry, that grows naturally in eastern Canada and in B.C.
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August 27, 2019