The Latest Blog Posts
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Top 10 Small Trees for Backyard Privacy and Beauty – Zone 3
Small, hardy trees that will fit into any yard, any landscape. Enhance your yard, give you privacy, attract the birds…
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #48 (Prepping For Fall)
This Sunday’s bits… fall decorating ideas for the porch and home, growing asters, sowing spinach this fall, fall recipes, including Taylor Swifts favourite cookies.
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #47 (Autumnal Ideas)
This week’s Sunday ramblings has fall flowers, fall decor, apple and cucumber recipes…. it is starting to feel like fall out there.
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Late August in The Potager & FAQ’s
Yard Tasks How To Save Zinnia Seeds – The Marigold Potager – A Zone 3 Prairie Garden Order spring flowering bulbs for planting in September and October. Garden Centers are putting their perennials, trees, and…
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #45 (Finally Sunny Weather)
Happy Sunday! Seed sales from Canadian companies, chocolate chip brownie recipe, zukes, garlic, and so much more.
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8 Deer & Bunny Resistant Bulbs To Plant Now For Spring
Check out my favourite bulbs for great spring colour. Feed the bees but not the deer or bunnies.
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The 5 Best Roses for a Zone 3 Garden
Some of the very best, hardy, beautiful roses for your zone 3 garden.
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Sunday Potager Ramblings #44 (Garden Reflections, Dealing with Drought)
This Sunday’s bits of this and that. As always, lots of great reads about gardening, but this week has some lovely decor items, too, and yummy recipes, as always.
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5 Must Have Spring Flowering Bulbs
It’s the month of August, the time when you want to put in your bulb orders to avoid sold outs. These 5 bulbs are must haves in the spring garden… but you have to order…
Vegetables I Am Growing In My 2026 Garden (with seed sources)
I was asked to post my crops for this summer, plus where I get the seeds from.
Here is everything thus far. There are still a couple of things I am looking for, but they are not a necessity, just a want.
These are the varieties that you will find at the workshops,…
Mid February Notes From The Potting Shed – Pollinator Flowers & FAQ’s
This week in the potting shed is all about pollinator plants, what to start now, getting ready to grow…
Sunday Potager Ramblings #71 (Lemon Trees, Create Gifts From Your Garden)
Grow gift ideas in your garden. How to grow artichokes, calendula, coneflowers…. This week’s post is so good! Full of garden inspo : )
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The Marigold Potager - A Zone 3 Prairie Garden 