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Continue reading →: Potager Ramblings #69 (Should you be feeding the birds? Growing skirret)This week’s collection of reads from the garden, the home, and the kitchen. Growing skirret?
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Continue reading →: Notes From The Potting Shed (Early February)What to do in the garden and potting shed in February….
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Continue reading →: How To Grow Calendula (aka Pot Marigolds)I love nothing more that adding flowers to my yard and potager. Perennial flowers have their moments, but annual flowers (the kind you plant each year) are my real favourites. Calendula will bloom from early spring through till frost, well into November. In mild winter zones, I have seen it…
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Continue reading →: Notes From The Potting Shed – Week #5 (January 26th – February 1st)What to do in January for your spring and summer garden.
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Continue reading →: Sunday Ramblings #68 (Hedgerows, Herbs, & Keto Bread)Hedgerow ideas, mulched gardens, safe bird feeding ideas, keto bread, tacky antiques that are coming back in style…. a fun Sunday read for you again, this week.
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Continue reading →: Sunday Ramblings #67 (Still Organizing & Changes Afoot)So, here we are, almost 3 weeks into the new year. How are you making out? We have had a very mild couple of weeks, which really helps the month move along faster. I am antsy for spring, longer days, and heat. I am two weeks into the Metabolism Recode,…
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Continue reading →: Canadian Seed Companies 202621 of my favourite, fantastic Canadian seed companies.
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Continue reading →: 2025 Year End Flower Seed Report CardA report card about how the annual flowers grew in the 2025 garden. All the seeds are from Canadian seed sources. The stuffers were purchased at a local greenhouse. It was a great garden year for the flowers, even though we had a tonne of rain!
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Continue reading →: Sunday Ramblings #65 (Garden planning & Design)This week has a lot of garden design tips for you as you start to plan your summer garden season. Garlicy cheese bread recipe, too, and the year of cabbage. Huh.
Hello,
I’m Tanja
Growing food and flowers cottage garden style (potager style) for healthier, happier gardens.
Feeding pollinators, attracting pollinators, for bigger, better food crops.
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The Marigold Potager - A Zone 3 Prairie Garden 