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- KILLING DANDELIONS AND WEEDS IN YOUR LAWN
- THE BENEFITS OF MULCH IN YOUR GARDENS
- TURNING YOUR LAWN INTO A “GREEN CARPET” THIS SPRING
- CARING FOR YOUR “GREEN CARPET” LAWN
- STARTING YOUR NEW “GREEN CARPET” LAWN
- CORN GLUTEN MEAL AS WEED CONTROL?
- GRUB DAMAGE IN YOUR LAWN THIS SPRING?
- GROWING ALFALFA — GRASS MIXTURES
- LAMB SURVIVAL — The first 24 hours
- WINTER FOOTBATHS
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KILLING DANDELIONS AND WEEDS IN YOUR LAWN
Dandelions are starting to show their bright, yellow faces this spring and like it or not, they’re going to make their annual appearance in our lawns. Whether you can tolerate their short-lived bloom or endure watching their wispy seed pods … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care, Lawn Care
Tagged dandelion, dandelions, herbicide, iron-based herbicide, lawn weeds, Scotts, weed killer, weed-b-gon, weeds
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TURNING YOUR LAWN INTO A “GREEN CARPET” THIS SPRING
A thick, full lawn that is richly green provides a safe and cushioned surface for family activities — it also spiffs up the curb appeal. Healthy, green turf also prevents soil erosion on slopes, filters contaminants from rainwater, absorbs many … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged benefits of a healthy lawn, feeding your lawn, fertilize, fertilizer, grass, lawn, lawn care, nitrogen
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STARTING YOUR NEW “GREEN CARPET” LAWN
Spring is here and you are tired of looking out your window at the dirt and mud surrounding your home. You can’t wait to have that beautiful green carpet beckoning you outdoors this summer. Well, you can have that lawn … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged bluegrass, cyclone seeder, germinating your lawn, grass seed, lawn, lawn care, perennial ryegrass, planting grass seed, planting lawn seed, ryegrass, seeding your lawn, sowing lawn seed
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CORN GLUTEN MEAL AS WEED CONTROL?
Corn gluten meal is a great fertilizer — but its value as a weed control product is marginal. Due to the Ontario Pesticide Ban, there has been an increased demand for organic weed control products and the use of … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care, Lawn Care
Tagged controlling crabgrass, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, lawn care, lawn fertilizer, pre-emergent weed seeds, weed control
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GRUB DAMAGE IN YOUR LAWN THIS SPRING?
Do you have animals digging up your lawn, crows congregating and pecking in the grass or have you found shallow tunnels exposed after the snow melted? These are all signs that your lawn is … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn Care
Tagged grub damage, grubs, japanese beetle, june bugs, lawn, nematodes, raccoons, skunks, white grubs
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STARTING SEEDS INDOORS
Select your seeds and plan to start them in a warm area approximately six to eight weeks before the last frost date is expected in your area. Choose containers with adequate drainage. Loosely fill containers with Potting Mix and gently … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged fertilizing, germination, grow lights, seed trays, seedlings, starting seeds, transplanting, watering
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CONTAINER GARDEN MAINTENANCE TIPS
by The Savvy Experts All of us at Savvy Gardening enjoy putting together multiple container gardens each year. Some are full of veggies or berries, some show off interesting flower and foliage combos, and others feature both edibles and ornamentals—or, as we like to call them, garden … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Lawn & Garden Care, Uncategorized
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HOW TO IDENTIFY & CONTROL TOMATO PLANT DISEASE
by Jessica Walliser Tomato growers are a passionate bunch. Some of us spend long hours combing over seed catalogs and nursery benches full of plants to select the perfect tomato varieties for our garden. We plant, tend, prune, fertilize, stake, and otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care, Vegetable Gardens
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ZUCCHINI GROWING PROBLEMS
by Jessica Walliser Zucchini and other soft-skinned summer squashes are usually pretty easy to grow. But, gardeners do sometimes face struggles with these productive crops. Perhaps your vines stopped producing in mid summer? Or the fruits were small or deformed? Or … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care, Uncategorized, Vegetable Gardens
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THE SECRET HEALTH BENEFITS OF FLOWERS
By: Bianca Vierra on 07.25.2018 NEWS Flowers are often reserved for special occasions and the part of our spending budget that we label frivolous. But what if you were told that flowers can actually bring health benefits? Would you purchase them … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Lawn & Garden Care, Uncategorized
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PLANTING A TOMATO SEEDLING
Stealing this video link and directions for planting tomato seedlings from Mark Cullen’s Gardening Week spot on Canada AM. Here, he shares his recipe for growing great tomatoes. My recipe for the best tomatoes on the block: — Buy … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care, Vegetable Gardens
Tagged growing tomatoes, Mark Cullen, planting tomatoes, tomato, tomato seedlings, tomatoes
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WHY NO IMPATIENS?
I get asked this question almost daily at our garden centre — “Where are the Impatiens?”. For the answer, Mark Cullen says it best and offers his suggestions for alternatives to impatiens in your gardens and planters. This is from … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, GENERAL INTEREST, Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged begonias, caladium, downy mildew, downy mildew in impatiens, impatiens, impatiens alternatives, impatiens walleriana, lobelia, Mark Cullen, plasmorpara obducens, shade-tolerant plants, torenia
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Mark Cullen’s May Garden To-Do List
Mark Cullen is an expert gardener, author, broadcaster and garden editor of Reno and Decor magazine. Get his free monthly newsletter at markcullen.com, and watch him on CTV Canada AM every Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. Follow him on Twitter @MarkCullen4 … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Lawn & Garden Care, Lawn Care, Uncategorized, Vegetable Gardens
Tagged black earth, cattle manure, composted manure, dig & divide perennials, garden to-do list; starting veggie seeds; start vegetable seeds indoors, Golfgreen Iron Plus, lawn care for spring, lawn preparations for spring, Mark Cullen's May Garden To-Do List, mowing height for lawn, organic compost, organic composted manure, organic manure, overseeding lawn, planting evergreens and roses, planting trees & shrubs in spring, preparing your soil for vegetable garden, sheep manure, soil amendments, soil prep for gardens, start from seed indoors, topdressing your lawn with seed, vegetables to plant in early May
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MARK CULLEN’S GUIDE TO CHOOSING VEGETABLE SEEDS
By: Mark Cullen Gardening, Published on Thurs., March 13, 2014 — Toronto Star It may seem early for me to say this, but now is the time for gardeners to think about what they are going to grow this season. But there are … Continue reading
Posted in Vegetable Gardens
Tagged beans, carrots, cayenne peppers, garden seeds, growing tomatoes, hot peppers, leeks, lettuce greens, lettuces, mesclun mix, peppers, radishes, seeds, starting seeds, tomato, vegetable seeds, vegetables, what to start indoors for seeds
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PANSIES — My Favourite Way to Bring in the Spring!
Pansies are one of the most popular and recognizable cool weather annuals. Breeding has produced pansies that are better able to stand up to the cold, but there hasn’t been much luck producing more heat tolerant varieties. Many pansies are … Continue reading
Posted in BEEF, Flowers
Tagged baskets, cheery faces, containers, cool-tolerant plants, flower, hardy spring annual, Pansies, pansy, planters, planting spring flowers, pots
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GLYPHOSATE: A CARCINOGEN?
This blog article is copied from ‘A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A FARMER’ blog post that I thought I’d share due to the recent hype around RoundUp being labelled as a human carcinogen. Every once in a while, … Continue reading
Posted in Crops and Inputs, GENERAL INTEREST, Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged cancer and roundup, cancer-causing Roundup, carcinogenic to humans, glyphosate, glyphosate debate, herbicide, herbicides and cancer, Is glyphosate safe, Round Up, roundup, Roundup as Carcinogen
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THINGS TO DO IN YOUR GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER
***This list is courtesy of Mark Cullen 🙂 Peonies. September is ‘peony splitting’ month. If you have one that is too big for the space that it is in or if you just want to move it, now is the time. … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, GENERAL INTEREST, Lawn & Garden Care, Lawn Care, Vegetable Gardens
Tagged apply nematodes, cut back flowering shrubs, deadhead roses, fall bulbs, fall harvest, fertilize, fertilizer, lawn seeding, pruning, pruning raspberries, split peonies
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CORN GLUTEN MEAL AS WEED CONTROL?
Corn gluten meal is a great fertilizer — but its value as a weed control product is marginal. Due to the Ontario Pesticide Ban, there has been an increased demand for organic weed control products and the use of corn … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care, Lawn Care, Uncategorized
Tagged corn gluten crumbs, corn gluten meal, fertilizer, lawn care, pre-emergent weed seeds, weed control
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HOW TO PREPARE YOUR ROSES FOR WINTER
Cold-Climate Instructions: 1. In early fall, stop cutting roses and let plants form hips (seedpods) as they prepare naturally for winter. 2. After the first frost in fall, protect plants from the potential damage caused by freezing and thawing cycles by piling soil over … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged preparing roses for winter, roses, taking care of roses
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FALL CHECKLIST FOR YOUR GARDEN, HOME & FARM
Fall has officially arrived with its first killing frost taking away any last remnants of our summer flowers, planters and baskets leaving us all with lots of clean-up and winter preparation work to consider around the farm and in the … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, Lawn & Garden Care, Lawn Care
Tagged fall, fall checklist, garden checklist, planting bulbs, preparing for winter, protecting roses
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CORN GLUTEN MEAL AS WEED CONTROL?
Corn gluten meal is a great fertilizer — but its value as a weed control product is marginal. Due to the Ontario Pesticide Ban, there has been an increased demand for organic weed control products and the use of … Continue reading
Posted in Lawn & Garden Care
Tagged corn gluten meal, fertilizer, lawn care, pre-emergent weed seeds, weed control
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