It’s never to early to start planning and prepping for the balcony gardening season ahead.
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Now available to First Nations, Métis and Inuit gardeners in Ontario! Miinikaan is offering 50 free seed kits to Indigenous growers to grow native plants.
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Welcome to succession planting: when you can plant, and plant again! Usually this means short-season, quick-growing crops, that can be planted one after another for multiple harvests in one season.
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Everything you need to know about starting seeds indoors - made easy!
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The allure of all the beautiful seeds to grow can make us gardeners get carried away. And now's a great time to choose your crops and plan your container garden. But what if you can’t decide what to grow?!
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As a new balcony gardener, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by choices and information. It’s also common to delay getting started because of past disappointments or fearing the worst.
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Stinging nettles (Urtica dioica) are a spring tonic, a wild medicine, and a nourishing herb both for the body and the garden.
Grasp the nettle! A saying that means doing something difficult BOLDLY! The idea is that when you pluck nettles strongly and without hesitation, they won't sting as badly as they do with a tentative touch.
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