Month: March 2023

• Easy Cut Flower Garden

  

  I love flowers. I love to grow them and I love to share them. From spring with the arrival of the daffodils to fall with the final sunflowers I want weekly bouquets in the house. During Covid lock down when I suppose we all went a bit stir crazy I decided to add a cutting…

• Growing Tomatoes on the Canadian Prairies

  

  We garden in a zone 3b urban setting. Our gardening season can be quite short. Some years we can still have frost occur as late as the 6th of June, and can have a fall frost as early as September 7th. This gives us about 92 days to our growing season. This means we need…

• Organically Treat Seedlings From Damping Off

  

  Have you ever had a flat of new seedlings look great then all of a sudden they seem to fall over at the soil level? The tender seedling’s stem at the soil level seem shrivelled and almost hair like in size. You are not alone. What is happening is referred to as damping off. This…

• Growing Ranunculus on the Canadian Prairies

  

  Certain flowers seem to be a must for us. Ranunculus is one of them. The multiple petals of the blooms are truly like nothing else. The only downside is they don’t last all summer. Many years ago I tried growing ranunculus. I followed the back of the package which essentially told one how deep to…