Look Up!
If your garden is a postage stamp, Ken Brown shows you how to grow up and feed your family garden-fresh vegetables. There’s lots of room in even the tiniest garden …
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How Our Gardens Have Grown
Pioneers cleared the land to grow crops to put food on the table. In more modern times, we enjoy the fruits of a multicultural buffet. From pioneer roots to the …
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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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Mark Cullen’s 10 Tips for Growing Vegetables
Take it from a gardening expert, with the right techniques, successful vegetable gardening can be easy, fun, healthy and oh so satisfying! 1. Grow organic Your vegetable garden provides …
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Tips for planting bulbs
Choose a planting area with good drainage so the bulbs won’t rot. Plant larger bulbs (daffodils, tulips and hyacinths) 20 centimetres (eight inches) deep; smaller bulbs such as crocus should …
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Build it and They Will Grow
What would Paul Zammit’s veggie garden look like? In an interview with the TBG’s Director of Horticulture, Trellis editor Lorraine Flanigan gets the scoop on how to grow the best …
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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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Tips for Fall Pruning
Constant pruning of many trees and shrubs is not a necessity, but rather it’s done for aesthetic reasons to improve flowering, stem colour and foliage and, if necessary, to control …
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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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Where do bugs go in winter?
We’ve exchanged our gardening gloves for fleece mittens and our leaf rakes for snow shovels. While we may have put away our equipment for the season, some very important garden …
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