Well, I guess winter has finally arrived and we can call it a wrap for the year
When Jed from the Beverly Hillbillies discovered oil in his backyard, he had his version of black gold, Texas Tea
Wow – what a summer we all had with that big, blazing ball of fire out just about every day, which made it pretty hot
One of my favorite sayings is: “Flowers are God’s way of laughing.”
We can all have a good tee-hee about someone else’s gardening foo-foos and learn from them too. Take some of mine, for instance…
I’ve had some great opportunities to either hop on a plane to somewhere interesting off the continent, or do some amazing road trips
Nature’s gardens are classified into layers: the ‘L’ litter layer is the top, undecayed layer of dead plant material…
Do you remember when the first seedless watermelons and grapes came out in the grocery store or the first pit-less peach?
One of the Christmas traditions we all love is to own or give a beautiful poinsettia.
A few years ago, my friend gave me a gift with an inscription on it that read: “At Peace in my Garden.”
So many precious trees (and lives) are lost during big storms, tornadoes, flooding and fires that ravage the earth every year.
I’m always amazed by how much kids morph and grow over the two short months of summer.
Now it’s time for a commercial break to bring to your attention a good product I use to successfully put out my “garden fires.”
The Shuswap Market News welcomes gardening columnist Margo Westaway to our pages.
Compostable kitchen scraps offer smorgasbord of nutrients for garden.
Gaia Gardening: Think outside the box, and what I need magically materializes at a thrift store, garage sale, or back alley.
Any time now those wonderful, nutritious leaves are going to start falling to the ground and you’ll want to grab them.
Living organisms, both macro and micro, benefit soil productivity and contribute to the function of all ecosystems.
There are a number of ways nature deals with pest and disease attacks:
In a nutshell, composting is turning food and yard waste into black gold.