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Category Archives: Vegetable Gardens
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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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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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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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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