Articles by Gardening Calendar
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Top Beautiful Fall Plants For Your Garden
These 5 beautiful plants to have around this fall are in vibrant shades of yellow, orange, red with late blooms providing pops of colour.…
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How Smart Are Bumblebees?
We often wonder about how smart certain non-human animals are, including bumblebees. There are numerous creatures whose intelligence is on full display and has…
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24 Flowers For September and October
Visit your local nurseries in September and October and you’ll see plenty of spring-flowering bulbs for sale to be planted in fall. But live…
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Harvest Tasty Fall Vegetables
Most avid gardeners have planted the vegetable essentials in abundance, but what about the forgotten vegetable and those varieties that look a little different…
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Growing Your Garden with some Chickens
If you own some of our known feathered friends, consider growing a garden with and for your chickens! It comes with great advantages for…
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Pruning Hibiscus For Best Growth
Pruning Hibiscus benefits all varieties, but the timing and technique will differ depending on the variety and how long you plan to keep it.…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening
Backyard gardening is good for physical health and well-being, and it’s an enjoyable hobby that can help you to connect with the natural world…
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Selected Gardening Facts for your Enjoyment
Learning selected gardening facts can be as much fun as gardening itself. Share them with friends or intrigue your neighbour one day as you…
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DIY Raised Garden Bed
DYI raised garden beds can be an important component of gardening, and they add additional beauty and benefits to get excellent and quality production.…
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5 Essential Garden Tools For Every Gardener
Gardening can be a great hobby for people that love spending their leisure time outdoors to connect with nature. However, having the right gardening…
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Caring For Plants With Root Rot
If you grow plants, ornamental trees, shrubs, vegetables and houseplants, you’ll likely encounter root rot: Powdery Mildew Blossom-end rot Leaf infection Wilting So, what…
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Having Outdoor Living Space That’s Fun and Functional
Create an indoor and outdoor living space you love. Use these tips to build or re-design your porch or patio so you can enjoy every…
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How To Grow Succulent Plants Outdoors
Dramatic, bizarre garden succulents lend themselves perfectly to the enhancing of contemporary architecture. Once banished to the rock garden, these plants are becoming more…
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Giving and Getting: Why we Volunteer
Gardeners are specialists in growing things that enrich the soul and the body too.
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Tip on Using Garden Fabric In Your Landscape
A garden fabric, also known as a weed barrier fabric, preen weed control fabric or preen landscape fabric, is an all-purpose fabric used by…
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How Proper Landscaping Can Prevent Basement Flooding
A quality landscaping service will go beyond just the way the exterior of a property looks. Of course, this is the main reason people…
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It was March 2020
It was in March 2020. The streets were empty, the shops closed, people couldn’t get out. But spring did not know and the flowers…
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Maximize Your Outdoor Space
Not everyone can enjoy the luxury of a big lawn for their gardening. Living in a city apartment or sharing a house might only…
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2019 Ottawa Garden Survey – Executive Summary
This a summary of the most frequent comments received from 81 questionnaire responses received by Gardens Ottawa between February 8th and March 31st, 2019.
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Outdoor Living Ideas
There is plenty of improvement you can do to spruce it up. By putting in a bit of time and effort into improving your…
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Volunteering Opportunity at the Hope Garden
Enjoy being outdoors in the beautiful summer weather, volunteering at the Hope Garden! Help plant the vegetables, keep the gardens weeded, then harvest the…
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Seeds! Glorious Seeds!
It is the dark days of February and it is now time to look ahead to the new year. Like most gardeners, my fingernails…
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Are Your Trees in Danger of Falling?
If you have numerous garden trees in the backyard, it could be dangerous as they may fall down, causing a lot of damage. This…
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Garden Design Trends in Canada
I’ve put together this list of the top three gardening trends for 2020 I love and I hope you too will love!
