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Growing 101
Dos and Don’ts for Freezing your Harvest By Rob Sproule Why Freeze the Excess Freezing 101 Blanching “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel Why Freeze the
Heat Waves By Rob Sproule “¨When to Water, and When Not To Keeping Roots Cool Minimizing Heat Stress When a heat wave hits, it’s not just humans and pets who get uncomfortable. Prolonged high temperatures
Training Tomatoes: How to Run a Sugar Factory By Rob Sproule Before you cut Tomato Behaviour Rules of Thumb Troubleshooting “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a
The Fake News on Earwigs By Rob Sproule Earwigs & Fake News Spotting Them Controlling Them Protecting Your Home They look like tiny prehistoric nightmares with a stereotype to match. But as long as you
3 Reasons to Trim Back your Annuals By: Rob Sproule How to Pinch Back Does the idea of hacking back your beloved annuals make you squeamish? A lot of flowering plants not only tolerate
The “Other” Pollinators By: Rob Sproule Hoverflies Butterflies Other Bees We’ve heard about the honeybees. But what about the other garden superstars giving us apples and strawberries and cucumbers? It’s easy to attract them
Heavy Rain By: Rob Sproule Assessing the Damage Rainy Seasons “The green reed that bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak that breaks in the storm.” – Confucius Weather happens. Our
Synthetic VS Organic Fertilizers: Who will Win? By: Rob Sproule To Organic or Not to Organic How Organic Fertilizers Work How Synthetic Fertilizers Work Most Effective Organic Fertilizers “If the grass on the other side
Best New Edibles for 2017 By: Rob Sproule The New Gardening Tomato ‘Chocolate Sprinkles’ Thyme ‘Spicy Orange’ Pepper “˜Bhut Jolokia’ Cucumber ‘Salad Bush’ Kale ‘Prizm’ ” Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
Gardening with Native Grasses By: Rob Sproule Grasses, Grasses, Everywhere The Benefits of Grasses Best Varieties for Alberta “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious,
Growing Asparagus in Alberta By: Rob Sproule Asparagus 101 The Art of Harvesting Good and Good For You Fresh asparagus is a short-season wonder that travels across our dinner plates like a shooting star. It’s
Trends 5/5 – Natural Mosquito Control By: Rob Sproule A Year of Bad Press Prevention First Predators “I hate mosquitoes. I mean, I know I’m delicious, but damn. ” ““ Unknown A Year of Bad
Image credit: NASA Gardening in Space By Rob Sproule Growing without Gravity The Power of Plants Space Flowers “It’s a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.” – Elon Musk, CEO
Best Terrarium Plants By Rob Sproule Baby Tears African Violet Ferns Succulents Building your own Terrarium isn’t as hard as you think, get the how to here! Everything old is new again. Terrariums, voted the
Poinsettias Will Kill You (And Other Christmas Plant Myths) By, Rob Sproule Myth 1: Poinsettias are Poisonous Myth 2: Aspirins help Christmas trees last longer Myth 3: Christmas Cactuses need extra darkness Myths are like
Kitchen Scrap Gardening By Rob Sproule We may be done with our fruits and veggies after dinner, but they’re not always done with us. The scraps we throw away often have the potential to keep
Darkness Dwelling Plants By, Rob Sproule ZZ Plant Peace Lily Chinese Evergreen I hear it daily. People wanting to have more plants in their indoor spaces, for health or aesthetics, but don’t have enough light.
What’s Wrong with my Herbs? A Trouble Shooting Guide By, Rob Sproule Not Enough Light Water-Logged Soil Softened Water Dry Winter Air Insects When the winter winds blow and everything outside, well, dies, a windowsill
Top 3 Reasons your Succulents are Dying By Rob Sproule You watered it too much Your soil is too sandy It’s in the wrong spot Succulents have become the new “it” plant. You’ve seen their
What’s a Teal Pumpkin? By Rob Sproule What’s the Teal Pumpkin about? Other Halloween Options Spread the Word First, a caveat. I’m taking a break from my standard gardening fare to talk about a cause
Microgreens vs Sprouts By Rob Sproule Safer Growing Conditions They Taste Different Nutritional Values Is it just me, or is no one talking about sprouts anymore? They trended like wildfire in the 90s, but a
Your Fall Gardening Checklist By, Rob Sproule Garden Surgery Plant Fall Bulbs Make your Bed Deal with your Pots Put the Rake Away Service Your Mower There’s a saying in retail businesses that you “close
Crushing on Yellow: Spring Daffodils By, Rob Sproule Embrace the Vanity! Growing Them Don’t Store with the Onions Yellow is pure joy in the garden. It’s honest, buoyant optimism that can’t be suppressed. It’s
Collecting Seeds By Rob Sproule There’s a glorious patch of poppies in our perennial border that my wife’s Nana planted decades ago. Every year my wife waits for the rattle in the pods and spreads
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