Make this Compact Herb Garden
Paul Zammit demonstrates how to pot up savoury herbs for a miniature culinary garden. 1.Select the right container Plants need ample space to develop a deep root system, so make …
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Growing potatoes in containers is kids’ play!
Use a large, deep pot or even a recycling bin, and you and your kids can start a potato patch on your patio, balcony or deck. Let 4-year-old Quinn show …
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Add Pollinator Magnets to Your Garden
February is the perfect month to be planning for the coming gardening season. As you pour through seed and plant catalogues, think about adding few extra plants to attract and …
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Paul’s Plant Pick: Guests in the Garden
There has been great deal of media attention regarding selecting plants for ones garden to attract and support pollinators, particularly bees and butterflies. Last week I caught a glimpse of …
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Paul’s Garden-Tending Checklist
Water responsibly: Water is a precious resource – every drop is important. Although it depends on the crop, rather than applying several light, shallow sprinkles, water less frequently but deeply. …
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Paul’s Plant Picks: Never Stop Learning and Discovering
I have said this before and I will say it again: One of the things I really love about horticulture is that even after the 25 short years that I’ve …
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Paul’s Plant Picks: First Sighting…
I’m thrilled to report that while touring a group through TBG this week, I spotted not one, but two monarch butterflies (at the same time). The first sighting of the …
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Paul’s Plant Pick: A Native Gem, Geum triflorum, Prairie Smoke
Geum triflorum, Prairie Smoke. In the distance are clumps of Camassia leichtlinii, a western native that will soon add a riot of star-shaped, blue-purple blooms on 60 to 90 centimetre …
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Paul’s Plant Picks: Edible Antiques
As we shovel out from yet another dumping of the white stuff and the piles get higher and higher, I can’t help but wonder when, and if, spring will ever …
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Paul’s Plant Picks: Great Bones
Planning for a Winter Garden Tour Who would have thought that at this time last year select Helleborus and Erica in the TBG gardens had visible buds and flowers bravely …
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