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Continue reading →: Sunday Potager (Food Garden) Ramblings #85 (Planting tips, painting, spreading plants)Well, hi there! Happy Sunday! Are you all busy bees? Planting your veggies, sowing your seeds, and getting your patios summer ready? Now that it is the actual May 2-4 weekend, we are all good to go! I have a huge list of things to do. It is going to…
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Continue reading →: A Dry & Cool Spring – End Of May In The PotagerIt’s the May 24 weekend. No, not the long weekend, that one was early this year, but the actual 24th of May… a great time for planting your tender plants in most all parts of Canada. Yay! I got all my seeds in before the cold snap but this weekend…
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Continue reading →: Plant This, Not ThatThis is a bit tongue in cheek… of course, you can grow anything you like. These are ideas for what to grow/plant at this time of year, if you missed out on the cool spring temps. Kale not Spinach If you missed the March/April planting window, it is too late…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Ramblings # 84 (May Long Weekend & A Skunk)You guys.. I have had a week! The entire week was chaotic and wild but to top it off, we had a dead skunk to deal with, too. As the weather last week was in the mid 20’s (Celsius), nice and warm and sunny… the inside of the house was…
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Continue reading →: Sunday Ramblings #83Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you all have a wonderful day… and enjoy this inspiration ramblings post ; )
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Continue reading →: Sunday Ramblings #82 (DASH meal plan, lilacs, planting onions, onion maggots…)We have had gorgeous double digit weather all week (finally) so getting the yard and gardens prepped has been the number one goal. Beds are weeded, edges have been tidied up (I use deep trenches to keep the grass out of my garden beds, no plastic needed), have been planting…
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Continue reading →: Late April/Early May In The Potting ShedThis is it. Finally planting and yardwork time here on the prairies. Time to get stuff done! I have started removing the leaves from my garlic bed. We still have a few ladybugs hunkering down in the leaves, so I just gently moved them to another bed so the ladybugs…
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Continue reading →: Top 5 Small Evergreen Trees For Backyard Privacy – Zone 3Looking for a small evergreen for your city yard? I got you!
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The Marigold Potager - A Zone 3 Prairie Garden 