Flora & Fauna Podcast Episode 18: Seeds with Kevin Twomey
It is seed starting time across Canada. From March through June, depending on where your garden is, you may be
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vegetable gardening
Flora & Fauna Episode 2: Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are densely packed with nutrients, delicious roasted or mashed with a dab of butter, and notoriously too heat-loving
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The Tricky Tomato: Fruit or vegetable?
By Heather Klein Is the tomato a fruit or is it a vegetable? This age-old question regarding the tomato actually
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Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell
Garden of Maggie and Mike Connell, New Brunswick Story and photos by Shauna Dobbie Maggie’s garden explodes with life. Containers
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About Cucumbers
1. Like broccoli with fewer calories. Cucumbers are among the world’s healthiest foods, containing health-giving lignans and flavonoids, as do
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Edible Garden
1. Plants feed the world. Only plants know how to change the energy of the sun into digestible, edible protein
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Carrots – Yummy, Crunchy
Carrots are easy to grow and are filled with vitamins and minerals, it’s no wonder they are the vegetable of
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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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Planting Companions
Long before chemical fertilizers and pesticides appeared, there were planting companions where farmers and gardeners knew that certain plants grow
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The Allium Family
Knowing the difference of the allium family, between shallots, green onions, scallions, chives and leeks can be very confusing. One
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