Sunday Potager Ramblings 74 (Workshops, diy’s, potager gardens)

Hi there! Happy Sunday! I have been crazy busy in the potting shed starting seeds and planning workshops.

Small green seedlings growing in black pots on a windowsill, with soft focus in the background.

I changed all of the workshop around so they now start when it is a bit warmer out there, with, hopefully, little to no snow. I think everyone is waiting for spring to get growing. I’ve also added a payment form right on the sign up so no need to message me first, etc… but rest assured, you can still send me a message and pay through either e-transfer or cash on site, if you prefer : ) Check out the workshops here…. and hey, if you are interested but prefer a different time or day, let me know. I have just pulled these times out of the air as hopefully great times to sit together and play with plants.

Workshops & Contact – The Marigold Potager – A Zone 3 Prairie Garden

Garden Inspo

There are very few recipes this week, but loads and loads of gardening and plant information/inspiration. Spring is coming! I hope you enjoy today’s links!

A collection of handcrafted tags with pressed flowers and inspirational phrases, arranged on a textured surface with spool of twine, scissors, and vintage papers. — *Scrappy Gift Tags Project | Stampington & Company*

Stampington (the magazine company) offers pages and pages of cute free projects. See them here, maybe find something to help you while away the hours till spring gardening really ramps up. Did you see their new spring gardening issue?

I saw it at London Drugs the other day. I really want to get it, but do I want it bad enough to spend that moolah? How do you guys feel about spending about $20 on a quarterly magazine? Money well spent for the peace it gives to peruse gardens? Or… eek!

A vibrant garden scene featuring an array of colorful flowers including red roses, white blooms, and purple and pink lupines, surrounded by lush green foliage and trees.

Pottering about the potager | A Waimate cottage garden – I mean, they call it a potager but I don’t see any veggies in the photos, but the flower gardens are stunning. Truly stunning.

This beautiful summer and winter garden. Our spring gardens look like these winter gardens ; )

Topdressing Plants | Fresh Container Soil Without Repotting

DIY Worm Composting Tower | Make An In-Ground Vermicomposter – DIY this composter for your garden, or pick one up on Amazon.

Essential-Tips-for-Beginning-Gardeners

A vibrant garden featuring raised vegetable beds filled with various plants, surrounded by wooden fencing and colorful flowers. In the background, there's a red barn and a blue shed among trees.

Our Garden Transformation: Before & After Photos – before and after photos of this lovely potager as it went from lawn to garden. Free Printable Garden Planner – They also provide a cute, free garden planner for anyone starting from scratch or looking for new ideas.

7 Raised Garden Bed Jobs To Do in March: Step-By-Step Guide – some ideas and pretty pictures. Put the ideas in your journal for April or May ; )

Be Brave and Give These 6 Plants a Hard Prune in March – depending on where you live, this could be happening now, too late for some of you, and those of us on the prairies are just waiting for a lovely day with less snow on the ground to do our pruning.

How To Prune Roses: Expert Techniques For Magnificent Blooms – This comment ‘Gardeners in colder zones usually find roses need harder pruning than those in warmer zones’. Most of the roses in my yard were planted in the last year or two, so not much to do on them yet. However, I have one very happy Therese Bugnet rose that needs to be taken down by 2/3’s this spring. If you are wondering where to prune, come see me in May : )

A vibrant community garden with various plants, flowers, and vegetables, featuring a greenhouse in the background and a gravel pathway.

A lush vegetable garden filled with a variety of plants, including green onions, flowering herbs, and colorful flowers like nasturtiums, surrounded by greenery and garden stakes.

These two cottage style food gardens (aka polyculture, companion planting, blended gardens, intercropping) on Pinterest caught my eye. There was no credit given for either one.

Just to show how lovely companion planting can be. This type of planting is so beneficial for attracting both pollinators and beneficial insects that provide free pest control.

10 Easy-to-Grow Flowers for Pest Control – flowers to plant in your polyculture beds.

A colorful garden filled with various flowers, including purple alliums and blue lupines, surrounded by lush greenery and tall grass.

A Garden from Scratch: How to Choose the Plants and Put Them Together – Seven ‘Rules’ for how to start a new garden bed, a herbaceous border.

A lush green garden with a greenhouse partially covered in climbing plants, featuring purple flowers and sunflowers in full bloom.

19 of the Best Annual Vines for Greenhouse Shade – while I don’t agree with all of these plants (hops is pretty aggressive), I think that shading your too hot greenhouse in summer with tall flowers or vines is a great idea… and it looks pretty, too.

Indoor Plants

A cozy indoor scene featuring two green candlesticks with white candles, a leafy money tree in a beige pot, and a lucky jade in a woven basket, with a nature-themed painting in the background. — *I have placed my money tree and lucky jade in the living room. This is said to promote a welcoming atmosphere and new friendships, according to feng shui.*

Money Tree Plant (Pachira Aquatica) Care Guide | Tips for Thriving Indoor Plants – I received a money tree as a get well soon gift after my hip surgery. I have just been waiting for nicer weather to take it out to the potting studio and repot it into a nice terracotta pot.

Prayer Plant Care Guide: Tips for Thriving Maranta leuconeura