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Ontario Story: Wild strawberry

February 6, 2020March 19, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1274 Views Edibles, Local content, wild strawberry

Have you ever considered a groundcover you can make jam from? Wild strawberries will multiply quickly to cover an area

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Ontario Story: Ripening tomatoes

October 15, 2019November 7, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 376 Views Edibles, Gardening for Beginners, gardening how-to

Tomatoes are climacteric, which means they will continue to ripen after they’ve been picked from the vine. This really matters

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Baby Potatoes in the Garden

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Baby Potatoes

July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 671 Views Edibles, potatoes, vegetable gardening

Po-TAE-to, Po-TA-to Nothing tastes better than fresh baby potatoes from the garden. Boiled, baked or put into salads or soups,

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Edibles Gardening with Kids 

10 cool things about herbs for kids

February 7, 2019February 15, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 626 Views Edibles, herbs, herbs kids can start indoors

What are herbs? Herbs are the leafy green parts of a plant, fresh or dried, used for flavouring food. They

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Rosemary

January 23, 2019January 23, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 654 Views edible plants, Edibles, herbs, prune herbs

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis, ‘Dew of the Sea’) is a woody, Mediterranean perennial that grows where the summers are hot and

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Edibles Gardening for Beginners 

Growing cucumbers

May 15, 2018February 7, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 1032 Views Edibles, Gardening for Beginners, planting cucumbers, vegetable planting

Ask anyone what vegetable is most often planted in their garden and the answer will probably come back, “tomatoes”. That

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Container gardening Peppers

May 15, 2018February 13, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 881 Views container gardening, Edibles, Garden how to, gardener, vegetable gardening

Pretty patio peppers As the container gardening trend heats up, peppers are staking out their place as one of the

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Growing herbs for the kitchen window

May 2, 2018February 7, 2019 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 737 Views Edibles, herbs, kitchen herb garden

By Dave Hanson Few plants yield such a wellspring of delight as kitchen herbs. Herbs are purposeful, charming, full of

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Top-pick herbs for the kitchen garden

May 2, 2018 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 824 Views Edibles, herb garden, herbs, kitchen herbs

Basil (Ocimum sp.) Basil is a winning herb: it is available in a smorgasbord of classic and worldly flavours and

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Curly kale, typically the variety of kale most people are familiar with.

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Garden Kale

June 28, 2017May 13, 2020 Canada's Local Gardener Magazine 588 Views Edibles, Kale, Plants, Vegetable

Kale, Glorious Kale! There are many other varieties of kale that you can grow in your garden: Lacinto kale (left),

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