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Alfalfa Keeps Water At Bay

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“If we have our soils conditioned to where they have increased organic matter, increased water storage and increased infiltration, that may be very important in the future.” – LINDSAY COULTHARD Asoaker of a summer has left farmers with one more reason to love alfalfa. An unforeseen benefit has surfaced at the Manitoba Zero Tillage Research
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Avoid This Plant

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Poison ivy lurks in many places so it’s most important to recognize it. It is attractive in all seasons, reddish in early spring, deep green in summer and shades of red, orange and yellow in autumn. Small, white, waxy berries form in late summer turning red later in the year. A good identifying feature is
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Creeping Jenny For The Container

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You have a dilemma: you have not filled all of your patio pots and hanging baskets but your gardening/ plant budget is shot! This is a common conundrum faced by many gardeners as we near the end of the planting season. Where did all my plant money go and what can I do to avoid
News, Oilseeds

Cankerworms Develop A Taste For Canola

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An insect pest with no appetite for canola has found its way into some southern Manitoba canola crops thanks to recent stormy weather. In his weekly insect and disease update, provincial entomologist John Gavloski said cankerworms had been reported feeding in a canola field near Winkler. He noted that the pests don’t normally feed on
Crops, Oilseeds

Early-Season Scouting Pays Off

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Early scouting can help ensure canola crops make it through the first few weeks in good shape. “With the wet conditions, many growers across the Prairies are struggling to get all their canola acres seeded. In the rush to finish seeding, they must remember to scout those fields that have already emerged,” says Troy Prosofsky,
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Make Your Habitat Wildlife Friendly

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If you’re like me, you love listening to the sweet song of birds or catching a glimpse of a brightly coloured butterfly fluttering by. There is so much beauty to enjoy in the natural world – and so much to benefit from, too. For instance, insects such as bees and butterflies are important worldwide for
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Early-Spring Delicacy Rich In Nutrition Too

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“The fiddlehead’s total antioxidant activity is twice that of blueberries.” – DR. JOHN DELONG Fiddlehead greens, the young, tightly curled fronds of the indigenous wild ostrich fern (Matteucia struthiopteris), are a delectable spring vegetable and rite of the season. Fiddleheads as a food source have been well known to Canada’s First Nations for many years.
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Why Not Grow ’Em Big?

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Most bedding plants fall into the group of short to medium in height. Taller varieties are frequently overlooked due to the idea that they should be positioned only near the back of the garden. However, as well as providing traditional backdrops, screens and hedge-like looks, with careful planning, more stately species can be used amid
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Add A Fern Peony To Your Garden

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The fern peony is a remarkably tough plant, and like the Chinese peony, it survives our intemperate climate just fine. One of the most cherished perennials in our garden is our beloved fern peony (Paeonia tenuifolia), which is one of the first herbaceous perennials to come into bloom in the spring garden. One reason that
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A Sure Sign Of Spring

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The shoots of this plant are some of the first in our border to emerge each spring where it seems immune to late-spring frosts. Every year one of the first harbingers of spring in our garden is the appearance of the bright-yellow blooms of our cherished Adonis Vernalis plant. We have had this plant in

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