Companion planting ideas are a brilliant, humane way to prevent squirrels and will actually contribute more beautiful plants to your garden, where barriers can be an eyesore. ‘T ...

Why you should be eating the dandelions popping up in your garden - Weeds such as dandelions are not just a garden nuisance - ...

Beyond their nutritional value, dandelions also play a beneficial role in the garden ecosystem. Their long tap roots delve deep into the subsoil, drawing up nutrients and enriching the topsoil when ...

If you want to figure out how to protect seedlings from birds in a kind and clever way, take care to consider more natural ...

Forage gardening is also trending this year. Forage gardens will include edible plants, and flowers for cutting. Medicinal ...

It feels so nice to to get my hands back in the soil after a long winter indoors. Spring provides us all with a fresh start at the gardening season. No matter how well the weeds did, how poorly the ...

Gardners have been warned to stay on high alert for signs of leatherjackets - a common pest which eats grass from the roots ...

A great advantage for choosing native perennials is they really want to grow here. My favourite perennials include globe ...

Jill ThomsonSaskatchewanI have always liked spiders, as anyone who read my 2024 Halloween article will have realized.

For a brief period of a few weeks in the summer, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) fly in search of a mate. They use their spectacular jaws to wow the ladies and conduct dramatic duels with their ...

Climate change is exacerbating hunger and poverty in rural KwaZulu-Natal villages. Communities are pulling together with ...

You can grow all kinds of edible flowers in jars on your kitchen windowsill. Marigolds, cosmos, and zinnias are three of the ...