Flora & Fauna Episode 16: Nutrients in the garden with Robert Pavlis
Did you know that you can give too much compost to your garden? Also, there isn’t a “best” fertilizer for tomatoes or
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organic gardening
Priddis Valley Garden: Healing people and saving the bees
Alberta is a land where people can follow their dreams in places some-times unimaginable at the outset. So it is
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Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 19 – New gardens
Faced with the very arduous task of building a new gardening bed, Shauna Dobbie, editor of Canada’s Local Gardener magazine,
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Flora & Fauna Episode 16: Nutrients in the garden with Robert Pavlis
Did you know that you can give too much compost to your garden? Also, there isn’t a “best” fertilizer for tomatoes or
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Garden Primer: All about fertilizer
Plants require macro nutrients, of which the big three in most fertilizers are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, followed by calcium,
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Canadian Prairies Seed Catalogues 2024
Explore the latest Canadian Prairies seed catalogues for top-quality seeds and gardening essentials. Perfect your garden this season! Here are
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About Spittlebugs
1. Who spit on my perennials? See those little dabs of foam on the stems of your favourite perennials? It
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About Compost
1. What every good compost pile needs. Nothing can happen to a compost heap unless it has carbon (brown and
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Sowing Seeds
By Mark MacDonald Getting a head start on spring, scores of farm crops have been cultivated for centuries through the
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Spittlebugs
Who’s been spitting on my plants? Spittlebugs show a preference for nitrogen-fixing plants such as legumes and it is postulated
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