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Fiddleheads for spring

By Jodi DeLong Filed Under: Articles by Jodi DeLong, Food

Ostrich ferns (Photo by Jodi DeLong)

In May, fiddleheads are a rite of spring in Atlantic Canada. Ostrich ferns are the source of the delectable fiddlehead.

Ornamental strawberries and peppers in pots

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food, Making a Garden

When Judith Adam grows ornamental edibles in containers, she enjoys pretty pots of strawberries and peppers.

5 bee-supporting perennial edibles to grow

By Carol Pope Filed Under: April in the garden, Food

Chive blossoms (Photo by Carol Pope)

These 5 perennial edibles grow without fuss, look gorgeous, add fabulous flavour and health-boosting goodness to your meals. And their flowers support bees.

Looking for big garlic cloves

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food, Making a Garden

Plant garlic cloves in fall. (Garden Making photo)

Garlic begins making roots in fall, just as soon as it’s buried in soft, rich soil. A big garlic clove on planting day make big heads next summer.

Planting fall lettuces

By Judith Adam Filed Under: August in the Garden, Food, Making a Garden

Mesclun being cut (Photo from Renee's Garden)

To plant late lettuce in the fall, you can search out any lettuce seed packets you have hanging around or order online with fast shipping.

Saving tomato and pepper seed

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food, Making a Garden, Tips for gardeners

Saving seeds can be as easy as collecting and drying pepper seed, and safely packaging them. It is a bit more complicated to save tomato seed.

Urban beehives make tasty honey

By Kat Fox Filed Under: Food, Ground to Cover

A happy bee on a Japanese anemone.

Healthy bee colonies are important. Here’s what can we do to help make bees happy. Info about the role of urban bee colonies? She where honey come from.

Tree & Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farm tasting

By Kat Fox Filed Under: Food, Ground to Cover

Linda uses hoop houses to extend the growing season, so those lucky enough to get a weekly basket of produce through her CSA program receive a diverse selection through the year.

Kat Fox taste-tests her way through the Tree and Twig Heirloom Vegetable Farm, and learns about the importance of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).

Big and little Hubbard squash

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food

‘Mini Orange’ Hubbard squash (Photo from Stokes Seeds)

Judith Adam decided to grow a dwarf or medium-size hybrids Hubbard squash in a large container on the deck.

Searching for sweet cherry tomatoes

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food, Making a Garden

Sweet orange cherry tomatoes (Photo from Stokes Seeds)

Judith Adam searches the new seed catalogues, looking for sweet cherry tomatoes to grow next year. Cherry tomatoes have greater concentrations of sugar.

How to plant garlic

By Kat Fox Filed Under: Food, Ground to Cover

'Candy' garlic that I'm hoping to harvest in my own garden late next summer.

Here is a basic guide on how to plant garlic. In order to harvest your own tasty garlic next year, you need some tasty garlic to plant this year.

Taste-testing veggies at Stokes

By Kat Fox Filed Under: Food, Ground to Cover

Walking through the masses of tomatoes in Stokes Seeds' trial gardens.

Kat Fox visited Stokes Seeds’ trial gardens in St. Catharines, Ont., to enjoyed taste-testing veggies and learn about a new way to grow tomatoes.

Grafted tomatoes promise hardier plants

By Kat Fox Filed Under: Food, Ground to Cover

'Brandywine' tomatoes, the variety being grafted onto hardier rootstock. Photo from Stokes Seeds.

Grafted tomato plants will be available to home gardeners, who can then grow tomatoes with the vigour of specific rootstock and the taste of specific fruit.

Tips for late tomatoes

By Judith Adam Filed Under: August in the Garden, Food, Making a Garden

As temperatures drop, tomatoes need extra care (Garden Making photo)

Tomatoes are notoriously sensitive to temperature and weather changes. Here are tips to get the best from tomatoes late in the season.

Pruning tomatoes

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food

How to prune tomatoes. In this case, dwarf tomato plants, ‘Window Box Roma’, grown in containers have been stressed and unproductive.

Dwarf vegetables in containers

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food, Growing from seed, Making a Garden

Growing container dwarf vegetables requires conscientious watering if you expect good fruit quality. I use soilless mix amended with extra vermiculite.

Sweet cherry tomatoes

By Judith Adam Filed Under: Food

Cherry tomatoes on vine

Every seed catalogue on my desk falls open to the tomato pages. Perhaps the seed companies have recognized my obsession with sweet cherry tomatoes.

Herbs are perfect for growing in pots

By Beckie Fox Filed Under: Containers, Food

Herbs in pots (Garden Making photo)

Herbs make ideal low-maintenance container plants, mainly because most thrive on minimal water and food. Grow herb plants such as basil and thyme in pots.

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