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Organic Gardening Tips · 1M ago

The butterflies early arrival in Toronto

In the last week I’ve noticed quite a few butterflies in my garden and around the neighborhood. Normally I don’t notice butterflies until at least May and certainly not in these numbers but there are so many that they’re even talking about it on the news! All over Southern and Eastern Ontario butter
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Organic Gardening Tips · 1M ago

Warm Winter, Early Spring

We had an amazingly warm winter here in Toronto this year. It’s said to be one of the warmest winters we’ve ever had. I suppose I shouldn’t be all that surprised then that my crocuses were popping up out of the ground by the 10th of March and that I had Daffodils and Hellebores in [...]Share and Enj
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Organic Gardening Tips · 5M ago

My garden loving dog

My dog is my garden companion. Just about every time I go out into my garden my dog accompanies me. I suppose it’s a good thing that I trained her from day one to stay out of the garden beds, isn’t it? I don’t know how I managed it, but she only stands on the [...]Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twit
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Organic Gardening Tips · 9M ago

Having trouble with my Gladiolas this year

I haven’t grown Gladiolas for a few years, but this spring when I saw packages of lovely coral and chartreuse colored corms I thought it was time to plant some Gladiolas in the garden again. Plus, it didn’t hurt that I’d had a few plants die off in the last few years so I had [...]Share and Enjoy
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Organic Gardening Tips · 10M ago

A small respite from the drought

We actually got a little bit of rain yesterday. I’m not sure how much rain in total we had, but it was the first really rain we had in more than three weeks here in Toronto. I’ve been giving my garden extra deep waterings this week since it’s been so very hot. This past Thursday [...]Share and Enjoy
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Organic Gardening Tips · 10M ago

Hot and Humid in Toronto

We’re currently going through a heatwave and drought here in Toronto. Up until this morning it hadn’t rained for over three weeks and temperatures have been getting up to 36 Celsius (96.8 F) plus humidity making it feel like 43 Celsius (109.4) or higher. It did rain just a little bit early this morn
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Organic Gardening Tips · 11M ago

First batch of Alfalfa tea for the garden

My husband and I are a little behind in getting things done in the garden this year. Why? Well it’s because we had a big delay due to our neighbors having a new fence put in. Part of their new fence was on our property line and that affected one “major” side of our garden, [...]Share and Enjoy • F
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Organic Gardening Tips · 2Y ago

Using Herbs from a Home Herb Garden

You have planted the herbs and watched them grow and flourish. They are extremely useful in so many ways. However, you will also know that for a successful home herb garden, there is a bit of work needed. In order to use the herbs you will need to harvest them first and timing is a [...]Share and En
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Organic Gardening Tips · 2Y ago

Buy The Best Indoor Plant

There is a wide variety of indoor plants to select when you are in the market for plants for your home.  How does one find the best indoor plant?  To select the best indoor plants there are a number of criteria one can use.  Things like experience with plants, flowering or non flowering?  hanging or
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Organic Gardening Tips · 2Y ago

Why Use Solar Lights In Your Garden

Solar lights will enhance your property, for outdoor use solar lights have so many advantages it is obvious why outdoor solar lights are becoming so popular. Solar lights have so many uses, landscape lights, path lighting, security lighting, patio lights, highlight plants and trees. Because solar li
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