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Plant pig squeak for next year

June 24, 2024 Canada's Local Gardener 4024 Views flower, Gardening for Beginners, pig squeak

Pig squeaks have big shiny, paddle-shaped leaves surround a sturdy, 16-inch stalk that bursts into exuberant pink, sometimes white, flowers

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How to grow mushrooms at home

May 25, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1462 Views Gardening for Beginners, gardening how-to, mushroom, Plants

By Tania Moffat Growing mushrooms is unlike growing any other vegetable. Fungi grow from spores rather than seeds. These spores

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Test your garden knowledge: How well do you know your daffodils?

February 26, 2023 Canada's Local Gardener 1009 Views beautiful garden, daffodils, Gardening for Beginners, Local Gardener

Test your garden knowledge by answering true or false to the following questions. 1. A daffodil is a kind of

growing shallots

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Growing Shallots

November 13, 2019 Caroline Fu 4325 Views Gardening for Beginners, growing shallots

Shallots are not the most commonly grown vegetable in Canada, perhaps because the maturity date for bulbs can be as

ripening tomatoes

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Ripening tomatoes

October 15, 2019 Caroline Fu 2262 Views Edibles, Gardening for Beginners, gardening how-to

Tomatoes are climacteric, which means they will continue to ripen after they’ve been picked from the vine. This really matters

Why should I buy high-quality soil?

Gardening for Beginners Manitoba Gardener

Quality Soil: factors to consider

July 23, 2019 Caroline Fu 2462 Views Gardening for Beginners, how to choose the right soil for your garden, what to look for in soil

Organic Factors. During almost all landscaping projects there comes a time when you have to decide, “What kind of soil

Gardening trends

March 1, 2019 Caroline Fu 3112 Views Garden how to, garden trends, Gardening for Beginners

One of the wonderful things about gardening is its changeability in trends. No two years are ever the same and

Bulbs Gardening for Beginners Plants

Canna infection

March 1, 2019 Caroline Fu 5143 Views Bulbs, canna plants, Gardening for Beginners, what's killing my canna

A tissue gone viral We all know that people and computers both get viruses, but guess what? Plants can get

how to care for birch trees in the urban landscape

How-to Trees & Shrubs

Birch trees in the urban landscape

February 22, 2019 Caroline Fu 6800 Views birch tree, Gardening for Beginners, trees and shrubs

by Dorothy Dobbie When and where to plant a birch The best time to plant a birch tree is spring

arborist

Gardening for Beginners Trees & Shrubs

When to call an arborist

February 22, 2019 Caroline Fu 2382 Views arborist, Gardening for Beginners, tree professionals, trees and shrubs

Trees are complicated organisms. It is hard to identify a problem without the help of a professional. You need to

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