April 25, 2007

Urban container gardening (Google Alert / The Ottawa Citizen)

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Read at : Google Alert for : gardening The Ottawa Citizen http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=21f1f826-c8b7-490a-ad58-4b846fccc866 The joys and perils of urban gardening Kate Heartfield, The Ottawa Citizen

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April 20, 2007

Pesticide-free gardening in Ottawa - Ottawa Start (press release)


Pesticide-free gardening in Ottawa
Ottawa Start (press release), Canada - 9 hours ago
The City of Ottawa invites you to register for one of its free seminars on pesticide-free gardening in Ottawa. Learn from trained horticulturalists how to

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February 19, 2007

Going wild in Ottawa

The city of Ottawa is encircled by a "greenbelt", an area of natural space protected from heavy development. It was intended to confine urban sprawl. But population growth simply leapt over, spawning homogeneous suburbs, which now ring …

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April 24, 2007

The joys and perils of urban gardening - Ottawa Citizen (subscription)



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The joys and perils of urban gardening
Ottawa Citizen (subscription), Canada - 1 hour ago
Urban gardening brings unexpected challenges, but also lovely surprises. The tomato plants are filling my office with a beautiful smell that reminds me of

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February 21, 2007

Shade Gardening

North Gloucester Nord Mary Ann Van Berlo of the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton shares advice on how to create spectacular shade gardens. Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007 @ 7 pm (1.5 hr.)

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March 1, 2007

Stalking the Wild Leek Stalkers

I offered some of our new Garden Bloggers the opportunity to introduce themselves via a "Native Plant" guest post here on my blog. To date, only Telsing Andrews from Ottawa Hortiphilia has taken me up on the offer, but I'm so glad he …

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May 5, 2007

Midget Maples

Most of the weeds I’ve been pulling up lately are little maple keys that have embedded themselves everywhere and sprouted. I’m sure a lot of people don’t consider maples weeds, but trust me when I say that Ottawa doesn’t need any more

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May 18, 2007

Tulip Fest

I can’t let the tulip festival in Ottawa go by without posting a few pictures of the favoured flower. We live within walking distance of one of the main tulip sites so we headed down last weekend. It was insanely crowded so it was a bit

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April 26, 2007

Curb side gardening

But that is not the only way I get gardening stuff for free. I also belong plantcycle, a great group of generous gardeners which recycle anything gardening related, including advice (there is always an endless supply of that).

Source: Ottawa Gardener

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March 4, 2007

Gardening Blog Directory Map - flashy!

Some kind of gardening nut like me? An entrepeneur venturing into the blogosphere? Both? When I read about this new gardening directory on Cold Climate Gardening, I had to check it out, and it fulfills its promise by being easy to use, …

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