Category: Starting a Garden
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Hügelkultur Gardening on Clay Soil
This spring, faced with establishing a new garden in hard clay soil, I wondered if hugelkultur might be a good strategy. The technique, which involves burying logs, branches, and mulch in a steep-sided mound, would certainly bring organic matter into my garden. But would they decompose properly when surrounded by clay?
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Four Solutions for Mold on Newspaper Pots
In most cases, mold does not spell disaster. Your seedlings can survive a small run-in with it, and there are a number of things you can do to discourage its growth. Just like every other living thing, mold favours certain conditions that help it thrive. You are creating those conditions if the following are true:
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Starting a Garden From Quarantine
If COVID-19 causes a full lockdown, can I still start growing food? What if I can’t go to any stores? What if I can’t even get deliveries?
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Introduction to Temperate-Climate Perennial Crops
In my experience with growing food in Ontario, food-producing perennials have been precious and always too rare. Every time I’ve gotten the chance to try growing a new one (even if I had no idea how to cook it), I’ve jumped in with both feet.
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11 Essential Steps When Starting Seeds Indoors
Starting your own seedlings can seem daunting if you have never tried it. Fortunately, as long as you place seeds in soil or a growing medium, then give them warmth and moisture and light, you are bound to have some success. Of course, a little extra knowledge will give you the best chance at healthy,…