If you have a vegetable garden, you have been harvesting all of the cold crops and have been picking tomatoes for a few weeks, depending…
July is when the garden is at its most magnificent. It is also garden tour season. Every city and most towns will have garden tours…
As soon as the Mock oranges finish flowering, hedging season begins. Way back at the beginning of March we learned the rules of pruning. Never…
July is truly my most treasured time in the garden. There is so much abundance. The flowers are resplendent, the animal and bird watching are…
When a space has been created for optimal growth, everything wants to grow – including weeds. There is a perception that if you have your…
There are hundreds of diseases and pests out there but there are just a few that are common to everyone’s garden across the prairies. Ants…
Spring Flowering Shrub Trimming – Now is the time! Spring flowering shrubs are all shrubs that flower before June 21. These include your Forsythia, Prunus…
I read a wonderful Zen book recently that glorified not the attainment of one’s goal but the path towards those goals. It went on about…
The bulk of your planting should be done right now. Start containers in mid-May and then harden them off by bringing them in and out…
You don’t have to fertilize if you use compost in the garden. Adding manure to the garden IS fertilizing, just a slow release form of…