Preparing Summer Vegetable Gardens

Preparing Summer Vegetable Gardens

Preparing Summer Vegetable Gardens Before you lift even one shovel full of soil to get your summer vegetable garden ready, we’d like to offer a few suggestions on how to achieve better success with your edibles this year.  We tend to be creatures of habit, but why not...
All About Mason Bees

All About Mason Bees

All About Mason Bees Mason bees are gentle, hard-working pollinators and they are wonderful creatures to have in our gardens! Mason bee cocoons are available now, but many folks are unsure how to settle them into their yards. When we held our last public spring...
Success with Seeds

Success with Seeds

Success with Seeds It’s around this time of year when millions of Canadians are leafing through seed catalogues or browsing through seed racks in garden centres. They are imagining all sorts of wonderful colour schemes for their garden and anticipating baskets of...
Sustainability in the Garden

Sustainability in the Garden

Sustainability in the Garden As we open the file on a new year, it’s important to be aware that, while gardening is one of the most relaxing, stress-relieving and rewarding of activities, we all need to move toward the realities of sustainability. It also means being...
Top 10 Things To Do in your Garden this Month

Top 10 Things To Do in your Garden this Month

Top 10 Things To Do in your Garden this Month November is an important month for many things in our gardens! To help keep your garden in good shape now, and even better shape for the months to come, please take note of the following important ‘to do’s:  1. It’s the...