Idea's & How To's

Want to bring on the heat this summer? We have a range of hot peppers to satisfy your inner daredevil! Be adventurous, try growing a pepper you’ve never had before. Read our blog for our steps to successful planting, maintenance, harvesting, storing, freezing and drying tips and 2 awesome hot sauce recipes to try!

Did you know that plants don’t all need the same pH? Most prefer soil with balanced pH while others, like berries, need lower pH soil for optimal growth. Read on for all the details...

Almost every day we hear about the new Three R’s – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Did you know that one common gardening practice combines all three? Composting. Compost is a natural organic fertilizer made by decomposed vegetable waste. By recycling your family’s garbage, you can reduce household waste, and can then reuse the compost as organic matter to improve the quality of soil in your garden!

There are many forms of stress that affect plant material, but a newly recognized form is destroying many of our forests. This new form, acid rain, is a product of our industrialized world that is moving greedily forward at a startling pace. People are only beginning to wake up to the need to cure our dying world by reducing pollution emissions. Until we get the pollution under control, we must settle for Plan B.

How to Use Fertilizer:  Your Questions Answered

To help you gain the most from your new landscape planting, proper maintenance and care is required. The following basics will help keep your garden in tip-top shape throughout the season.

Add Zing!  To your Meals with these Favourite Herbs that you can grow.

Houseplants, cultivated garden plants and ornamentals are the cause of many poisonings. However, some are attributable to native or naturalized plants. The most commonly reported plant poisonings result from curious children eating fruit and plant fragments.

At the garden centre, the fruit trees offered for sale may be three years or older and the basic shape is already begun or established, having been pruned at the nursery. You need now only to maintain and improve the open-centred vase shape that is desirable.

START IN SEPTEMBER FOR HEALTHY FISH.  Add drops of fish vitamins onto the food, letting it soak in for a few minutes before feeding the fish. Repeat every 10 days to help fish build strength.  Feed fish through October as long as water temperatures remain at 8 o C (46o F). Follow these step by step directions...

Too many tomatoes to eat in a salad? Make a quick and easy tomato sauce. This sauce is perfect for a savoury meal during the harvest season.

Harvest in the early morning before the heat of the day.  Be sure to check your garden daily and pick the ripe vegetables doing so will encourage the plant to produce more.  When not harvested the plants will go to flower and that is a sign that they are done for the season.