It’s time to rub elbows with the greenery. We’re chock full of Christmas trees, grape-vine orbs, evergreen fronds, pine cones, bright red berries, elegant coloured twigs and garlands. Pop over to the garden centre and we’ll inspire your holiday spirit. “Let the festooning begin!”.
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Holiday Warm Up
Holiday planters, artfully put together by John, at Fiesta Gardens.
We take the Christmas and Holiday season to twinkling heights at Fiesta. The garden centre is aglow with festive delights, glistening greenery, decorative winter planters, and an unparalleled array of Christmas tree varieties. The scent of the pine needles is worth the trip alone. We’re quite proud of our full-service tree lot, we trim and help you get your tree hoisted onto your sleigh, or whatever vehicle you operate. Plus, our large variety of trees are displayed in full, not all wrapped up, so you can pick out the perfect one.
Easy Steps to a Host of Daffodils
Poet’s Narcissus, Narcissus Actaea is lovely, and fragrant. You can’t have too many of these.
You know that sick feeling when you feel your shovel going through a bulb already in your garden bed? It’s a tricky flower bulb planting challenge to remember where the heck you planted them last year. Or the year before. Here’s a great method to get some bulbs in the ground and allow you to increase your spring display without endangering any bulbs planted previously.
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Staking & Tying Up in the Veggie Garden
Fruit is heavy. Stake and tie before they flop.
Potato plants in my garden exploded with top growth last week. They’ve been surging up and up with mad abandon, then suddenly got tired of being upright and flopped dramatically over the sides of the container. “It’s harrrd being a potato plant,” I may have heard them moaning. What to do?
Ten containers of heirloom tomatoes have also responded to the heat and burst every which way with gonzo growth. I did catch these mostly in time, and gave myself a gold star. Here are a few staking tips to keep your garden veggies from tumbling over.
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Garden Hero: Ruth Stout
The inspiring, entertaining, and straightforward Ruth Stout (1884–1980) was an American gardener and writer who perfected what she called the “No Work” vegetable garden method: the principle of using a year round mulch of hay. She came to gardening late in life and wrote several gardening books on making gardening easy. Ruth was one of the first to propose the no-dig, no-plow vegetable garden, a practice that preserves the soil structure and valuable microorganisms. The video above shows Ruth planting potatoes by casually tossing sprouted spuds on the ground, then covering with hay.
A thick layer of straw, newspaper, or any other organic mulch is essential in the hot, dry days of mid summer especially now, in the middle of a heat wave and drought. As Ruth says, “mulch keeps the soil soft and moist”, the perfect growing medium for most plants. When watering, if soil is very dry, pull newspaper away from base of plants to make sure water sinks in, then re-cover to hold the moisture in.
I can’t argue with Ruth’s gardening philosophy, “I don’t do anything I don’t want to do, and I don’t have to.” I also like her professed habit of having her breakfast Roman-style, on the couch.
