Here are a few survival tips and suggestions to get us gardeners through until springtime.
Aahh…. we can finally breathe again, now that the holidays are over and everyone has gone home and the kids are back in school
Great things to see, do and read during the holiday season.
Colourful fall leaves a wonder of nature and invaluable for healthy garden.
After 16 years of creative impulses, I have created a maintenance monster. And now this place makes me feel like I’m going a bit squirrelly.
It seems like it was just the other day when I was putting out the garden ornaments and the stinkbugs were moving out of the house
One of the many pleasures of the growing season is to munch on the wide variety of both garden and wild berries.
One of the many pleasures of the growing season is to munch on the wide variety of both garden and wild berries
It’s odds ‘n sods this column, because there’s a few things I want to yak about, rather than something in particular.
Tricks to maintain, rich, moist, healthy garden soil.
In Des Kennedy’s funny book called Crazy About Gardening, his chapter on water begins like this…
This winter I wrote about how trees have evolved to survive cold climates, which inadvertently stirred up a rat’s nest…
Listen to the people who have known the value of growing their own food all along.
To ward off the cold of winter, us humans bundle up with warm coats and hats, the birds puff out their feathers for thicker insulation
Trees have adapted to cold climates since they rose up from the ground millions of years ago to a warm and tropical environment.
The word “heart” and “earth” are interchangeable and perhaps there’s a reason for it, or at least a message in it.
The word “heart” and “earth” are interchangeable and perhaps there’s a reason for it, or at least a message in it.
A Chinese proverb says: ‘When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.’
Well, I guess winter has finally arrived and we can call it a wrap for the year
Knowledge of certain plants and how to use them has been around for almost 35,000 years.