Tag: Gardening
Growing Concerns: Flowers not the only gifts for gardening mom
Taking your mom to the local garden center and letting her enjoy the colours, sights, sounds and smells might be the best gift of all.
Recycling effort underway to combat plastics from spring gardening
A recycling effort by Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful offers a solution for what to do with the surfeit of plastic trays and containers from greenhouses and garden centers that cannot be put into regular curbside recycling.
Youth horticulture club launches season at botanical food gardens
The For Our Youth (FOY) club gathered on April 26 for a chilly but productive meeting at one of our favourite locations — the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG). We saw some familiar faces at the March Break Ripley and District Horticultural Society meeting, but stormy winter weather prevented us from getting together in February, […]
Tree debris and the humble bee
It’s a big dose of nature on this week’s Up North Lowdown: How storm debris can turn into electricity, our gardening expert guides us through good fertilizer for northern Michigan soil, and we receive a shipment of bees!
Growing Concerns: Roses ready for some special attention
Once I have cut back my roses I sprinkle about a 1/4 cup of Epson salt around the base.