6 tips for weeding your garden
Posts By: Nikki Healy
Lawn Spreader Settings
Types of lawn spreaders: DROP SPREADER PRO-MIX SPREADER Application Patterns: HALF RATE (2 passes) FULL RATE (1 Pass) How to calibrate your fertilizer spreader If your spreader is not listed here, you can determine which setting to use by conducting this simple test: Read all directions and precautions on the bag…. Read more »
The secret to a successful garden by Mark Cullen (French subtitles)
How to get rid of Ice Melter residue on your flooring
While ice melter residues are common on sidewalks and parking lots, tracking of ice melters indoors can also result in residues on floors and carpets. When sodium or potassium chlorides are applied, they melt into the snow to form a brine solution. If the concentration is great enough, a dry white residue may be left… Read more »
Growing your eggplants in containers – By Albert Mondor
The eggplant (Solanum melongena) is a vegetable of tropical origin. It is rather capricious and requires a lot of heat and sustained fertilization. However, those conditions can easily be obtained when growing eggplants in containers. In the spring, most Canadian garden centres offer eggplants in containers. Choose vigorous, compact plants that bear a few flowers… Read more »
Beets with striking colours! – by Albert Mondor
For centuries, beets have undergone a slow metamorphosis which has lead to the plant we know today, with its sweet, swollen root. Other than the round, purplish-red beets, we have developed tens of cultivars with the most diversified shapes, colours and tastes. As they are very easy to grow, beets should have a place in… Read more »
Eat flowers!- by Albert Mondor
Although we mostly create them to be ornamental, our gardens contain various species of flowers that are completely edible. Here are some mouth-watering examples. With the addition of flowers, your summer dishes will be both original and colourful! The blooms of most begonias (Begonia) can be eaten. In addition to being crispy, they have a… Read more »
What you need to know about ice melters
How Ice Melters Work When ice melter granules contact ice or snow, they begin to form a brine solution. This brine is central to the melting process, as it will not freeze initially. The brine becomes more diluted as it melts the ice or snow, until it eventually refreezes. How long it takes for this… Read more »
How ice melters affect your pets and home
Pets Ice melters are relatively safe to pets, but a few precautions should be taken to protect pets, floors and carpets. Animals like salts, and it is a good idea to prevent pets from licking ice melter granules. Keep them indoors while the ice melter is applied. To prevent pets from tracking residue on floors… Read more »
How ice melters affect concrete
Most concrete damage is a result of the natural effects of freeze-thaw cycles, not a chemical attack by an ice melter. Moisture seeps into the surface pores and cracks in the concrete,and as it changes to ice, expands and puts pressure on surrounding surfaces. Stress on weaker areas in the concrete may result in cracking… Read more »
Attracting Pollinators – by Mark Cullen
My goal is to provide as compelling an argument as I can for you to invest in the future of your garden this spring – indeed the future of the planet as we know it – by consciously planting ‘pollinator plants’. What is a pollinating plant? Most plants generate pollen: it is the elixir of… Read more »
Soil: Where Food Begins – by Mark Cullen
2015 the International Year of Soils. If this comes as a surprise to you, no worries, you are not alone. It seems that most of us are keenly unaware of the value of our dirt (the good stuff) and I am here to help change that. On December 5th 2014, Jose Graziano de Silva, the… Read more »
