A fall gardening checklist is provided below to assist you in completing tasks. Take out your pen or pencil and jot down any ideas you have for your garden, just like making a shopping list for fall planting. When autumn arrives, you’ll have a plethora of fall gardening ideas and a plethora of ways to…
Fall lawn care will help to make sure it is in tip-top shape for the coming winter. While many residents assume spring is the time to focus on your lawn, there are many things you can do to keep your grass strong and healthy during a frigid winter. It’s important to start it as soon…
There is a lovely flower that I have started to grow as a cucumber companion plant that attracts a huge number of bees. I like growing cosmos but the orange cosmos I found seems to be a real bee magnet. Greetings fellow gardeners, This week I melted! It was so hot and there never…
Many people cannot get enough coffee and start growing coffee plants in their homes! It is essential to take care of the coffee plant to reach its fullest potential. Knowing about seasons, temperatures, and the best fertilizer for growing coffee plant becomes necessary. Let us look at some safety measures and fertilizers so that your…
Looking for good ways to fertilize your lawn organically, as a step in organic lawn care? We’re breaking down everything related to organic lawn fertilizer and how it works. Did you know that if you rely on synthetic fertilizers, your lawn is not eco-friendly? That’s because they cause environmental damage. Synthetic fertilizers were widely utilized…
Taxus weevil is a very serious pest both landscape plantings and in nursery and greenhouse settings. Hailing from Europe, this pest was first seen in the United States in the early 1900s.Today it is one of the most widely distributed and destructive pests.
It is a well-known fact by now that our current way of living on the planet is not sustainable. Global population continues to grow. The planet’s resources are stretched thin. More people are squeezed into densely populated cities. Accessing fresh and nutritious food is challenging, reducing health and quality of life for many people. At…
Cannabis has grown exponentially throughout the world, with cultivators continually searching for the most effective variants to meet the consumer’s “mind-blowing” and elevating desires. Are you a cannabis enthusiast who is constantly on a hunt for and experimenting with new strains of cannabis? If so, you may value this cannabis strain guide. The ever-expanding cannabis…
I added compost to my peonies last year and overwintered them with maple leaves. They are much better this year. Often, we add soil to peonies either because the existing soil has eroded, or we want to add nutrients. Peonies, however, are very particular about their depth of planting. If you cover up the base…
The rose I went for is the one I know as Frontenac. I brought a four-cup measuring cup with me and filled it with rose petals. My first batch of rose petal jelly is ready to eat. Greetings fellow gardeners, Oh, my goodness it is hot and dry. Hopefully, the temperatures will go down to…
It is not too early to be planting some vegetables such as peas, chard, kale, beets, and lettuce. These cool weather crops will be fine if you plant them early. The peas that I planted covered with a cloche are doing great and starting to grow up the string. Greetings fellow gardeners, The sun is…
Many commercial mosquitoes and insect repellent contain harmful chemicals which are toxic to children and pets. We are providing you here most effective and natural mosquito repellent plants which you can grow indoor and outdoor. Do you want to repel other insects? Here is a list of companion plants that repel insects, as well as…
But then I saw a large leaf of green poking up! I have bulbs growing and that is amazing. I am not sure what bulb is starting, but I am keeping watch. Each day new and interesting things are emerging. Greetings fellow gardeners, I am slowly preparing to re-enter my garden. My chives are ready…
I decided that I wanted to try a bulb ‘lasagna’ planter. These planters are often featured on my favourite British gardening shows. I removed over half the dirt from the planter and put my bulbs in layer on layer like a lasagna. Greetings fellow gardeners, In Veggie Bites Twenty-eight I had mentioned that I would…
As the days have been getting longer, I have been monitoring my little seedlings and decided it was time to transplant several of them into larger pots. I took the best seedlings of each of my five tomatoes and planted them up. Greetings fellow gardeners, I can’t believe that it has been a year since…
We all know now that gardens and gardening enhance the wellbeing and happiness of people. That includes enjoying not only the beauty and the fruits of gardens, but also the satisfying work that creates this bounty These basic general tips and reminders reflect only my personal approach and ideas about what is most important in…
If I were to continue with microgreens, I think I would grab several packets of regular seed from the dollar store and do a multiple seeding with them. I think that would be much less expensive as you need a lot of seeds for a good showing of microgreens. Greetings fellow gardeners, The sky is…
Microgreens are basically the seedlings of edible vegetables like beets and kale, or herbs like basil or cilantro. Their popularity in the kitchen seemed to start in the eighties and now the few seedlings on offer have expanded to at least twenty-five. Microgreens are filled with nutrients along with concentrated, intense and unique flavours. Greetings…
The Pimento pepper is one of my favourite peppers. It starts as a small green pepper, then turns bright red or cherry pepper with very little heat. Greetings fellow gardeners, We got some snow!! Not as much as I would like, but enough to mound up around the perennials. The sun is shining this morning…
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 plants? But what about flowers that bloom in September and October? It would seem that the only choice for flowers in fall is potted chrysanthemums. But I truly learned what marvelous…
Learning selected gardening facts can be as much fun as gardening itself. Share them with friends or intrigue your neighbour one day as you chat with one another across the fence. You can change a hydrangea’s color by altering the pH level of the soil. A more alkaline soil will result in pinker blooms, while…
In the microclimate of today’s modern home, houseplants can serve dual purposes – cleaning air plus adding beauty, color and life to a room.
by Kathy Felkar Volunteer at the Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory Slowly removing my head from my pillow in the dead dark of pre-dawn, I wonder what was I thinking when I agreed to volunteer every Friday at Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory for the next two and a half months. As I slowly put…
A slideshow-summary for-the-busy prepared for the team at Solarcentury, as background for our support for the youth strike event on 20th September and the Extinction Rebellion protest on 7th October. Those who would like the original powerpoint, with source urls as notes, can find it – with all my other source files, for free use…
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