It’s easy to get caught up in growing a ton of tomatoes. They’re a garden favourite and growing multiple varieties seems like an easy decision. But as it gets late in the season you can become overwhelmed with tomatoes that you need to use. And there’s a lot of them that you want to avoid […]
I believe there are two camps of people; those that obsess over the soil for their garden, and those that don’t think twice about the soil their plants are growing in. For years I sat in the latter group, I didn’t pay much attention to my soil and figured it would just take care of […]
Zucchini is one of those garden vegetables that is feast or famine. One plant can provide you enough zucchini to eat daily, and then some. But once the squash vine borer gets its chance at your plant, the feast ends quickly. To combat the squash vine borer we often plant extra plants. And this is […]
Although there are a lot of insects found in the garden, there are some that come out earlier than others – and specifically target your beginning of the season crops. Luckily the list isn’t too long so it’s easy to get familiar with these insects, and they’re also quite easy to manage as well. If […]
Many home gardeners, at some point in their growing career question if they should use organic chemicals. Or maybe you’ve already tried organic chemicals on your vegetables, fruits or other plants in your garden or lawn. While pesticides as a whole are often frowned upon in the home or organic garden, organic pesticides are still […]
If you’ve ever gone to bed one night and woken up the next day to see your grass has holes in it or has been flipped upside down, you’ve experienced lawn grubs. We have a neighbour that decided to have his lawn removed and re-sodded. I guess he’s not a big fan of weeds and […]
Whether it’s the first time you’ve experienced this, or you’re tired of the same thing happening – damping off is one of the worst things to happen to your homegrown seedlings. You work so hard to grow plants from seed, you water them, watch them every day and they look like they’re growing so happily. […]
I have a love-hate relationship with aphids. I hate finding them on my plants, but I love them as an insect. What a fascinating insect they are! We think we understand how other living beings work based on what we know about ourselves, we are mammals after all, but the insect world is a weird […]
If you’re looking to increase your health this year, want to know which vegetables you should be eating daily, or you just want to fill your garden with the most nutritious vegetables, you’ll get all the information you need here. Although we aren’t a big fan of the marketing of ‘superfoods’, many of the vegetables […]
If you’re new to gardening you might be unsure which seedlings are best to buy from the greenhouse, which ones are the healthiest, or if you should even be buying them at all – since they do grow from seeds that you could buy. If you want to buy the healthiest seedlings and get the […]
