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The perfect Mother’s Day gift?

If your mom gardens, a potted tea rose would be ideal

By Albert Parsons May 9, 2014

If you are looking for a Mother’s Day gift related to plants and flowers, you are faced with a myriad of choices. Will it be fresh flowers — roses perhaps? Maybe a gift certificate to Mom’s favourite garden centre? What about that fountain she has admired at every visit to the garden centre? Of course,

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Need a quick pick-me-up?

This can provide continuous indoor bloom while you wait to garden outdoors

By Albert Parsons March 21, 2014

March can be one of the hardest months for an avid gardener to endure. It is still winter, not much can be accomplished yet in the outdoor garden, and we are tired of the same old, same old in the house. At this time of year, I look around for inexpensive and quick fixes to

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Gardens and green lunches shine a light on two rural schools

Two rural schools nominated for a Food Matters Manitoba’s Golden Carrot Award  help kids learn about food, while keeping things fun and delicious

By Shannon VanRaes October 16, 2013

There is a new food fad catching on among young students in the community of Pinawa. Chives. “I never would have guessed it, but yes, chives — they love chives, every time I turn around out there they’re munching away,” said Darcia Light, principal of F.W. Gilbert Elementary, where an innovative garden program has earned

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Tomato Pie

True love and tomatoes

September 12, 2013

Only two things that money can’t buy. That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” I blissed out on John Denver music in the 1970s, so lines from his songs are forever burned in my brain. While picking tomatoes the other evening, this one naturally started looping through my head. I mentioned awhile back that we tried

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An ode to the Prairie garden

Letter Five from Northern Blossom Farms: In his fifth instalment from Northern Blossom Farms, Gary Martens  reflects on the value a garden brings to a farmer’s life

By Gary Martens August 8, 2013

In previous letters I have discussed three major components of a complete farm; crops, livestock, trees and the whole that results from these components. I propose that there is a fourth component that is already present on many farms and that is the garden. Gardening is an activity that is common to many people in

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Starting slips and cuttings

By Albert Parsons April 9, 2013

Most plants used in our outdoor gardens are grown from seed, and in many cases, these seeds are planted indoors in early spring to produce good-size seedlings by planting-out time. There are many plants, however, which are grown from cuttings (or what some gardeners refer to as slips) rather than seeds. It may be that

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Master Gardener program growing strong in Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson February 28, 2013

Manitoba now has 50 graduates from its newly offered Master  Garden program, administered by Assiniboine Community College

Participants in a new program training Manitobans to be better gardeners are hitting the ground running — literally. That’s because those who study to certify as a Master Gardener take their classroom learning out into the community both as students and later as community volunteers. Master Gardeners are trained horticulturalists who are educated and certified

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Food for the Future Community garden project ends productive season with a feast

By Daniel Winters October 10, 2012

With the harvest picked, children and adult volunteers in the Food for the Future community garden project gathered at a local church to plan their next move —and enjoy a feast of garden-fresh produce. Some of the 10 new gardeners who had already emptied their plates were darting outside to play in the crisp fall

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Mosquito plant — fact or myth?

By Albert Parsons June 16, 2012

We have all heard the term “urban myth” a term that describes stories and supposed occurrences that never really happened and are not true, although they are widely believed to have happened or be true. Maybe we should coin a new phrase, “garden myth,” to encompass some of the things that gardeners believe even though

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Plant an old favourite

By Albert Parsons June 8, 2012

When I was just a boy growing up on the farm, I started a flower garden. Of course, this was before the era of designer plants and before bedding plants were available in the spring, at least in rural Saskatchewan! If you wanted to grow flowers you did it the old-fashioned way — you planted

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Tag Archives Gardening

The perfect Mother’s Day gift?

Need a quick pick-me-up?

Gardens and green lunches shine a light on two rural schools

Tomato Pie

An ode to the Prairie garden

Starting slips and cuttings

Master Gardener program growing strong in Manitoba

Food for the Future Community garden project ends productive season with a feast

Mosquito plant — fact or myth?

Plant an old favourite

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