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Crushing on Yellow: Spring Daffodils

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

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

Summer vs Winter Squash

Summer vs Winter Squash By Rob Sproule Growing Them Harvesting At the Grocery Store At supermarkets in the Fall I feel like a pilgrim in a strange land. Odd shapes, bulbous and rounded, are stacked

Plants That Make You Go HMMM

Plants That Make You Go HMMM By Rob Sproule It’s that time of year again where our fancy turns to thoughts of sitting at desks, staring at screens and books, pining to be outdoors. Few

Gray Mold

Gray Mold by Rob Sproule Most fuzzy things are just plain cute. Who can resist an over-plushed teddy bear or a fuzzy caterpillar in the palm. This article is about one fuzzy thing that’s more

Ground Beetles: Gladiators of the Garden

Ground Beetles: Gladiators of the Garden by Rob Sproule In old Hollywood movies you always knew who to root for. The good guys were handsome and the bad guys were ugly. It’s a money making

Vinegar: Garden Cure-All or just Salad Dressing?

Vinegar: Garden Cure-All or just Salad Dressing? by Rob Sproule With 2 small kids and an aversion to chemicals, I love vinegar in home. In most cases, a spray bottle with 1:1 vinegar to water

For the Love of Hostas

For the Love of Hostas by Rob Sproule I’ve come to learn that those who love hostas, love them a lot, and those who don’t love hostas.. still like them quite a bit. They’re one

Close up image of a pile of raspberries | Salisbury Greenhouse - St. Albert, Sherwood Park

Raspberries 101

Raspberries 101 by Rob Sproule Fresh raspberries and ice cream is one of summer’s sweetest delights. For the number of people who adore raspberries, it’s surprising that more aren’t growing them. Granted, they have a

Permaculture 101

Permaculture 101 by Rob Sproule The term is derived from the idea of “permanent agriculture.” The idea being that while modern agriculture often imposes our artificial techniques onto nature, permaculture emphasizes using nature’s patterns

Training Your Tomato

Training Your Tomato by Rob Sproule Tomatoes embody the best of summer. From the nostalgic smell of the leaves to the juice running down your chin, they’re Canadian’s far-and-away favourite edible to grow, and for

Top 3 New Annuals Of 2016

Top 3 New Annuals Of 2016 by Rob Sproule Gardening is as timeless as hobbies get. But while we’ve been growing daisies and pansies for hundreds of years, and will be hundreds of years from

The Mosquito Proof Yard

The Mosquito Proof Yard By: Rob Sproulemosqutio Standing Water Changing the Habitat Defence Disease: Myths and Facts Nature is wondrous. While my bug articles are usually, inevitably, about getting rid of said bug, I normally

Shears on open bark | Salisbury Greenhouse - St. Albert, Sherwood Park

Your Pruning Calendar

Your Pruning Calendar By: Rob Sproule Fall Pruning Late Winter Spring Here’s a cheat-sheet on when to prune your trees and shrubs to keep them healthy for decades to come. Fall Pruning: With exposed branches

Fall Mums

Fall Mums by Rob Sproule Choosing your Mum Growing your Mum History of the Mum In garden centers, box stores, grocery stores, and even gas stations around Edmonton, mums are the most famous of fall

Fall Tree Planting

Fall Tree Planting By Rob Sproule “¨The Best Time to Plant Preparing the Ground Giving Your Tree the Best Start A yard without trees is like a home without walls. The floor and furnishings

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Crushing on Yellow: Spring Daffodils

Collecting Seeds

Summer vs Winter Squash

Plants That Make You Go HMMM

Gray Mold

Ground Beetles: Gladiators of the Garden

Vinegar: Garden Cure-All or just Salad Dressing?

For the Love of Hostas

Raspberries 101

Permaculture 101

Training Your Tomato

Top 3 New Annuals Of 2016

The Mosquito Proof Yard

Your Pruning Calendar

Fall Mums

Fall Tree Planting

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