Gardening Tips

Monthly Vegetable Planting Guide For Year Round Success

Time to plan your garden? Combine vegetables and flowers for beauty and funtion. Beginning gardeners, try easy-to-grow edibles like beans, Swiss chard, radishes, tomatoes, sunflowers, squash and melons. And if you stick to the planting calendar, you'll have less work, less heartache and greater chances of success. Oh, and don't forget about edible flowers; Nasturtiums and violas are super easy and fun to grow! Nasturtiums will even reward you by coming back on [...]

By |2017-05-19T13:18:18-07:00February 15th, 2012|Blog, Gardening Tips, Knowledgebase|Comments Off on Monthly Vegetable Planting Guide For Year Round Success

How Good Is Your Garden Soil

How good is your garden soil? When you begin to plan your garden, the first thing your should take into consideration is your soil. Soil is not just "dirt". Soil is a composition of minerals, water, air, fungi, bacteria and organic material that has decomposed. All of these must be in the right proportions to grow the flowers and plants that create healthy, beautiful gardens. We all know that our flowers and plants [...]

By |2017-05-19T13:18:18-07:00February 14th, 2012|Blog, Gardening Tips, Knowledgebase|Comments Off on How Good Is Your Garden Soil

Boxwood Blight Alert in North America

You may have heard that Boxwood Blight has recently been detected in North America. To bring the nursery industry up to date, Craig J. Regelbrugge, ANLA, held a conference call last week with the State Associations to discuss the issue. CANGC staff participated on the call and will continue to monitor this issue and provide updates as they become available. The call was started with some background information; Boxwood Blight is a pathogen first described [...]

By |2017-05-19T13:18:18-07:00February 13th, 2012|Blog, Gardening Tips, Knowledgebase, News and Events|Comments Off on Boxwood Blight Alert in North America

Create The Best Soil For Your Garden

How to Create The Best Garden Soil A healthy garden requires the best garden soil available. The best soil for your garden is home to a wide variety of living things. Unlike dirt often found in urban areas, a healthy, fertile soil looks, feels and smells very rich and “earthy”. Encouraging organisms (fungi, bacteria and other beneficial micro-organisms) to thrive in garden soil is exactly what we gardeners ought to be doing. Organic gardening soil [...]

By |2017-05-19T13:18:19-07:00January 24th, 2012|Gardening Tips, Sidebar Photoblog|Comments Off on Create The Best Soil For Your Garden

All About Earthworms – Introduction

Earthworms Probably one of the most easily recognized invertebrates, earthworms are of the phylum Annelida, meaning "ringed" and refers to a series of segments that make up their bodies. Varying from all brown to a pinkish colour and lengths from a few millimeters to 300mm (1ft) in some species but are usually up to 100mm (4in). There are four very common worm species - Night crawlers, as its name suggests they are more often seen at night [...]

By |2017-05-19T13:18:20-07:00December 29th, 2011|Blog, Gardening Tips, Knowledgebase, Sidebar Photoblog|Comments Off on All About Earthworms – Introduction

Organic Garden Fall Check List

  Every gardener knows under the cloak of winter lies a miracle... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dreams. quote by Barbara Winkler Before we enter the quiet of those long winter months,  we must take advantage of the fall to prepare for the seasons to come.  Autumn is the perfect time for assessing, designing, and improving your gardens. [...]

By |2017-05-19T13:18:20-07:00November 16th, 2011|Gardening Tips|Comments Off on Organic Garden Fall Check List
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