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PRETTY PLANTS AND LANDSCAPE TIPS

by Donna | Feb 9, 2017 | Garden Decoration, Landscaping Tips, PLANTS & DESIGN, THE LATEST | 0 Comments

Be Inspired- Blossom into a full-grown gardener!
Carol spent more time getting her garden ready for the garden tour than most of us spend on our yards all year long. Gardening and decorating her garden is her passion.

MUSHROOMS WILL SAVE BEES

by Donna | Feb 8, 2017 | Bugs & Buggers, GARDENING | 0 Comments

Do you wish you could change the world? Make a real difference to your friends and family and to the little creatures like bees who seem so innocent, so fragile? I found out last week that we can do it. We can change our world by changing our garden.

But it’s not what you think. I am not going to insult you and tell you to plant flowers or herbs to attract pollinators to your yard because if you are on my page you are already a gardener and the plants you grow do exactly that. They attract bees.

THE TOP SECRETS OF ALL ORGANIC GARDENERS

by Donna | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured, Landscaping Tips, PLANTS & DESIGN, VIDEOS | 0 Comments

In this No Guff Gardening series is the top secret of all organic gardeners. Row covers keep bugs out and crops warm. The three products Donna likes include Grownet, Proteknet and Reemay. Find out why. and make sure to let me know what you want to learn next. I help gardeners grow!

CAUL-AMITY IN THE GARDEN. BIG BUST WITH CAULIFLOWER

by Donna | Feb 6, 2017 | Food, Greenhouse | 0 Comments

“It’s too heavy grandma” 4 year old grandson Rupert complained when asked to hold my cauliflower for a photo-op last year. I didn’t have the same problem this year, that’s for sure.
I have been gardening and writing about gardening for thirty years so I was basically bragging about growing the biggest and best cauliflower crop ever. Until I flunked out.

BARRY’S FATAL MISTAKE WITH COMPOST

by Donna | Feb 2, 2017 | GARDENING, Soil | 0 Comments

After seeing a photo of Barry Furneaux in the Qualicum Beach newspaper I had to visit him. He had raised a 14 pound cabbage (one of many) and it was featured prominently in the news in late October. So of course I had to visit and find out the secret to Barry’s success. I found out secret #1 – Steve Solomon’s Book (The Intelligent Gardener, New Society Press) and secret #2, his homemade compost. After making a fatal mistake with his compost one year, Barry now makes compost in the fall in a very strategic way following advice from Steve Soloman.

SHARE THE LOVE: A SURPRISE IN THE GREENHOUSE

by Donna | Jan 30, 2017 | Bugs & Buggers, GARDENING | 0 Comments

So I’m in the greenhouse this morning looking at my plants and of course admiring them and smiling and then I see two slugs curled up together. On a leaf. A broccoli leaf. So of course I run for my camera and here is the evidence of slugs at work: mating.