Growing Together: Making your walkway a more inviting path
“When it comes to improving your home’s curb appeal, the walkway that leads up to the front door is one of the best places to spend some time and effort,” writes Joanne Young.
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Growing Together: Mother Nature’s clues for what’s in store this winter
“I must admit, as one who grew up on a farm, I love the many “observations” that have been passed down through the generations,” writes Joanne Young. “Most of them can be confirmed, scientifically speaking, but at first glance can seem questionable.”
Growing Together: Caring for your indoor plants this winter
“If you had your plants outside for the summer months and have brought them back into house this fall, you will see those plants going through a bit of a struggle at this time,” writes Joanne Young. She shares how to keep them happy and healthy before spring returns.
Growing Together: O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!
“Your tree is your canvas, so it is important to select a good one — gorgeous ornaments can only do so much for a scraggly tree,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: How to grow amaryllis, the mysterious Christmas flower
“Growing an amaryllis requires no special skills. In fact, once a bulb is ready to bloom, it will flower with or without you,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Creating your very own Christmas planter
“After years of putting together Christmas planters of all shapes and sizes, I have learned that some simple techniques can help you get off to a good start and hopefully take some of the frustration out of this task,” writes Joanne Young, sharing just what those steps are.
Growing Together: Using fresh greens to decorate for the holiday
“Using evergreen boughs and trees is one of the longest Christmas traditions. The year-round green foliage provides us with a sign of hope to carry us through the winter and into the new year,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: The natural beauty of Niagara
“It always amazes me how something like the vineyards and orchards can change so drastically from season to season, each season just as beautiful as the next. It reminds me that we all go through different seasons in life,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Turn those fall leaves into black gold
“Before you start stuffing all those leaves into bags, you may want to consider making use of them as mulch in your gardens,” writes Joanne Young, sharing her tips for properly collecting dead leaves for compost.
Growing Together: Let’s get the big picture on pumpkins
Besides knowing they are good for pies and carving for Halloween, how are you with pumpkin trivia? Joanne Young shares a bounty of fun facts about the fall-time gourd and how it became a part of celebrating spooky season.
Growing Together: Putting your evergreens to bed for the winter
When it comes to putting your garden to bed for the winter, there are a few things that you can do to help your evergreens make it through the cold weather looking their best.
Growing Together: Fantastic fall foliage
For some, autumn is just a sign of the impending winter season, but Joanne Young writes, “as long as it lasts, we need to enjoy this wonderful weather and the changing of leaf colours.”
Growing Together: Fall is here — time to divide your perennials
“Fall is a great time to be dividing some of your clumps of perennials in the garden, especially during the month of October,” writes Joanne Young, sharing tips on how to know which ones can be divided at this time and the best way to get it done.
Growing Together: What shrubs do you prune in the fall?
It’s a trick question: by pruning your shrubs in the early fall, before its leaves have dropped, you will cut off food the plant stored throughout the year, which will result in a weaker plant, writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Late bloomers to keep your garden going
Joanne Young shares some plants that will keep your garden blooming over the next month, so you can enjoy your garden for as long as you can.
Growing Together: Setting your lawn up for success
As we approach the start of autumn, cooler temperatures mean that it is the ideal time to tackle a lawn renovation, writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: If at first you don’t succeed … change your plan
“We all have places in our gardens that prove to be difficult spots,” writes Joanne Young. “So, instead of ‘try, try again,’ it is time to stop, take a step back and look at your situation differently.”
Growing Together: Up your harvest by giving pollinators a hand
“With a little effort and dabbling in some science, you can have more produce than you know what to do with,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Add movement with ornamental grasses
“What can be more relaxing on a warm summer day then chilling out on your favourite lounge chair or hammock and watching the grasses sway and rustle in the breeze? ” asks Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Help your summer plants stay cool
“When the hottest days of summer hit, many container garden plants slow down on making flowers and fresh foliage — even if you keep up with watering,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Time to think big about tropical gardens
“There is just something to be said about a more tropical look in the summer,” writes Joanne Young, sharing her four favourite summer beauties that will add some “wow” to your garden.
Growing Together: More from the world of hydrangeas
“Every year, growers are coming out with more and more varieties of hydrangeas,” writes Joanne Young. “Just when you think that they can’t possibly come up with something different, they do.”
Growing Together: The power of pollinators
“If we each add a couple pollinator-loving plants, it will make a positive difference. If we feed a pollinator, they will in turn provide us with the food we need to survive,” writes Joanne Young.
Growing Together: Daisy, daisy, give me your answer true
Can there be any happier flower than a daisy flower? There is just something about them that makes you smile and want to start humming a tune. They can brighten any summer garden.
Growing Together: Japanese beetle season is upon us
If you have been gardening for any length of time, you have probably come across these colourful insects at some point or another. If you haven’t seen them yet in your garden this summer, you will see them in the next couple of weeks.
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