This is a collection of basic gardening how to articles written by me. Some of them, such as the articles under climate, planting seeds, and getting ready for winter, pertain particularly to northern gardeners.
The dirt on soil
- The Importance Of Soil In Your Garden
- How To Make Compost
- It’s All About The Worms: Promoting Healthy Garden Soil
- Ants In The Garden
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Plant Nutrition
- Put your Plants On a Merry-Go-round: Crop Rotation for fun and Gains
- Green Manures to Increase Soil Fertility
- Chemical Fertilizer
- Why Is Clay Soil Such A Bitch?
- Companion Planting
- How to Make a Garden Bed.
Climate
- Embracing Your Garden Climate (How to Meet other Gardeners and share your passion)
- Do Hardiness Zones Really Matter?
- Surviving Northern Winters
- Canadian Plant Hardiness Zones
Weeding
- If You Can’t Beat them Join them- Getting Rid of Horsetail and other Tenacious Weeds
- Killing Weeds
- How to Weed
- Why deadhead perennials
Planting Seeds
- How To Grow Primulas From Seed
- Why Plant Heirloom Seeds?
- When to Plant out Seeds and Transplants in a Northern Garden/a>
- How To Start Annual Seeds Indoors
- How To Grow Perennials From Seed
- Germinating Seeds Outside
Watering
- What I’m Doing For My Garden or How to water the garden
- Letting Perennial Flowers Going Dormant
- How To Water Houseplants
Garden design
- Book Review : Outside The Not So Big House -creating the landscape of home
- Designing a Garden
- Book Review: Garden With Shape Line And Texture -a plant design sourcebook
- Container Planting- Choosing flowers for scent and colour
Getting Ready For Winter
- Getting the garden ready for winter.
- How To Divide Perennials
- How And Why To Plant Bulbs
- New Ways To Store Root Vegetables
- Making Flavoured Vinegars
- How To Preserve Herbs
- Why should you seed a second sowing of leafy greens
- The New Way To Preserve the Garden Bounty
- Canning Plums
- The Best Way To Preserve Ripe Peaches
