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Editorial: Count your garden blessings
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editorial: Count your garden blessings

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A little under a year ago, I wrote that sticker shock at the grocery till was putting more emphasis on garden produce. From firsthand experience, I talked about dusting off my preserving skills. We in the Stockford house made gallons upon gallons of salsa, juice, cider, jelly and a variety of soups, all carefully canned
How can I make the most out of my space? What should I plant? What should my fertilizer plan look like? Expert gardeners answer these questions and more.
Farmit Manitoba

Gardening for a lower food bill

If there was ever a year to maximize garden yields, food price inflation suggests this is it

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Although snow in the third week of April suggests otherwise, Manitoba is only weeks away from gardening season. And while the large farm garden is an institution in rural areas, the memory of soaring lettuce prices and food costs in general may have Manitobans everywhere looking for a little extra from their growing space. Why
New edition of Prairie Garden contemplates warmer gardening climate
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New edition of Prairie Garden contemplates warmer gardening climate

The 2023 Prairie Garden tackles building resilient landscapes, adapting to climate change

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The latest edition of a venerable gardening annual contemplates what gardens will look like in a future, warmer climate. “Climate-aware gardening” is the topic of the 2023 Prairie Garden, Western Canada’s only regional-specific gardening annual, published since 1937. It officially launched with a virtual party on Nov. 13. Danny Blair, a climatologist at the University of Winnipeg, guest-edited the
ReWild co-founder Kennedy Collins in his home garden.
Farmit Manitoba

Manitoba seed company brings regenerative ag to garden scale

ReWild Garden Seed’s Spring Fling Cover Crop blend is designed to boost soil health and water infiltration in home gardens

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A team of Manitoba farmers and gardeners are taking their love of regenerative farming and shrinking it from field to garden. “When we started regenerative farming on my family farm, we turned to cover cropping to replace our reliance on fertilizers,” said Joseph Gardiner, co-founder of ReWild Garden Seed in a news release May 13.
Travis Walker waters vegetable bedding plants in his greenhouse
east of Rivers.
Country Crossroads, Other

Dream of a greenhouse business takes off

Busy couple has greenhouse in Rivers and also near Holland, Manitoba

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When Travis and Kendra Walker purchased an acreage east of Rivers in 2016, it just happened to include four large greenhouse structures that the previous owner had built on his farm. “I was always interested in the greenhouse business so when the acreage we purchased came with greenhouses it seemed like a good time to
Mexican false heather (Cuphea hissopifolia) is covered with flowers.
Country Crossroads, Other

Cuphea has been hybridized to be used outdoors

Once grown only as houseplants there are now more vigorous varieties that do well outside

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As plant hybridizers are creating new varieties, more and more plants that were once grown solely as houseplants are making their way outdoors. One such plant family is the Cuphea genus. There are over 100 varieties of Cuphea, including a couple of species varieties that are useful outdoors as well as some hybrid varieties perfectly
Evening Scented Stocks are combined here with dark-purple petunias.
Country Crossroads, Other

Evening Scented Stocks will provide wonderful perfume at night

The pleasant aroma will more than make up for this rather nondescript plant

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Plants that provide us with sensory delights in the garden are much sought after like those that exude wonderful scent to the surrounding air. Most highly scented plants emit their perfume abundantly in the evening and overnight and the Evening Scented Stock (Matthiola longipetala) is no exception. During the day this nondescript plant, whose flowers
We urban gardeners envy the space available to rural gardeners for growing lots of vegetables.
Country Crossroads

Planning and planting the veggie garden

Whether it’s a large patch or a smaller one, there’s a few things that will help to make it a success

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Growing your own vegetables is a great way to connect with nature and to gain a supply of good-quality food, and for those who prefer organic, growing your own veggies ensures control over what techniques (and chemicals) are used. There is great satisfaction in being able to grow some of your own food and I
Calendula is a great annual for a patch garden.
Country Crossroads, Other

Using patches of annuals in the landscape

Perfect for those hard-to-plant areas they will add colour and be inexpensive if using self-seeders


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There are always spots in the landscape that are a bit troublesome when it comes time to plant them — especially large rural landscapes where the space is almost unlimited, but the budget isn’t! Even in smaller urban gardens there are usually spots where the growing conditions are less than ideal. One remedy for such
This colourful tall Amaranthus is positioned right at the front of a border.
Country Crossroads, Other

Using tall annual flowers in a border

Instead of using smaller plants to edge a border try some taller ones


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Flower borders were once quite formal and planting them required careful planning and precise placement. This very formalized way of planting annuals is rarely used now except in large public gardens. Nowadays, beds and borders composed solely of annuals are very rare as most gardeners have switched to using perennials with just a few annuals

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