by Donna Balzer | May 18, 2017 | Flowers & Alpines, PLANTS & DESIGN
Have you heard about healing herbs but never known how or where to use them? Linda Miller, who gets paid to teach about these kinds of things as the College Director of the Western College of Homeopathic Medicine (WCHM.ca), was taking a class I was teaching with Grow Food Calgary (Growfoodcalgary.com) and saw me giving away calendula seed. When I told her my plan was to get people growing their own summer flowers to eventually make their own skin care potions she immediately offered to help.
by Donna | Feb 9, 2017 | Garden Decoration, Landscaping Tips, PLANTS & DESIGN, THE LATEST
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.
by Donna | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured, Landscaping Tips, PLANTS & DESIGN, VIDEOS
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!
by Donna | Jan 28, 2017 | PLANTS & DESIGN, Trees & Shrubs
“I find this inch and a half big indentation in the trunk of the tree. It brings tears to your eyes.”Arborist Kevin Lee
INTERVIEW – ALL ABOUT TREES
Donna Balzer : Tell me about this tree disaster you keep seeing in Calgary?
by Donna | Jan 26, 2017 | GARDENING, Soil, Trees & Shrubs
What kind of nutrients do falling leaves really have? Are they just drained out empty shells of their former selves? Answers vary.
Some older studies show commercially collected fallen leaves in urban centers contained nasty elements such as lead and cadmium because the tree leaves were swept up by machine along with portions of lead-contaminated soil.
by Donna Balzer | Jan 5, 2017 | Bugs & Buggers, Food, GARDENING, Landscaping Tips, Soil
Our world is just too small to be messing with random additions of chemicals and in his book, the intelligent gardener, Steve Solomon spells it out for you. But if you prefer to keep it really really safe, simply make the conditions right for microbes and they will make the conditions right for plants. It is a simple and satisfactory solution.
