Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2024

 

Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2024 is now available. Brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton and Lanark County.

This issue contains the following articles:

• Sitting in the Garden Thinking Positive Thoughts;
• Everything you always wanted to know about bio controls;
• How to take great nature and garden photos;
• Spiderwort.

Our Master Gardeners answer the following question:

        ? What do I need to know to give a Japanese maple a chance of survival.

        ? My weeping larch is looking unhealthy, What could be the matter with it.

Photo of Black Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillar dining on my carrot tops. by Dale Odorizzi

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Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2023

 

Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2023 is now available, brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton and Lanark County.

This month the newsletter contains the following:

• Ten Common Gardening Mistakes.
• To Prune or Not to Prune?
• Planting for Sparrows.
• New England Asters.

Our Master Gardeners answer the question:

• My green hostas have yellow spots or speckles. Is it a disease?
• How late in the season can I divide and replant perennials?

Photo by Dale Odorizzi--Gomphrena (Globe Amaranth), an easy to care for annual. Sparrows enjoy it in the fall, especially the White Crowned Sparrow who arrived in large flocks and devoured every seed in a few days.

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Trowel Talk November 15, 2022

 

Trowel Talk November 15, 2022 is now available, brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Ottawa Carleton and Lanark County. This issue contains the following articles:

• Vermicompost or My Pet Worms
• A Primer on Seed Documentation
• Botanical Art and Gardening
• Book Review--A Garden for Rusty-Patched Bumblebees
• Gardener Beware Siberian Pea Shrub.

Ask a Master Gardener answers question on bringing plants back indoors and on the dreaded Creeping Charlie.

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Photo by Dale Odorizzi, a pollinator paradise. Read Lorraine Johnson's book for more ideas.

Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2021

 Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2021 is now available. In this month's issue, we cover:

• Propagating a Jade Plant.
• Creating a Holiday Arrangement, using Plants.
• A New Native Plant Garden.
• Miscanthus Grass, another thug in our Gardeners Beware Series.
• Book Review of Grandma Lisa's Humming, Buzzing, Chirping Garden.

Our Master Gardeners answer the helpline question "how do you know when and what to feed plants?"

Photo from the New Native Plant Garden, by Julianne Labreche

Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2020

The Trowel Talk Newsletter November 15, 2020 brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Lanark County and Ottawa Carleton, is now available.  This month we talk about:

• Beauty or beast? Invasive Cypress spurge--This plant is considered an invasive weed in Ontario but it is also an invasive ornamental that is often grown in home gardens and can still be found for sale in nurseries.
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia--You may remember the popular Chia Pet, popular in the eighties. Follow one gardener's adventure as she grows chia plants.
• Green Roommates--Now that the outdoor gardening season has drawn to a close, we turn our attention to houseplants.
• Bringing nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants--a Book review 
• Ask a Master Gardener--Overwintering Spider Plants and Controlling Spider Mites.

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Edible Garden Newsletter November 2019

The Edible Garden Newsletter for November 2019 is now available.  In this issue we show you that there is more to Edibles than eating as one author combines ornamentals and edibles to create a garden in a vase for all occasions.  Our Bee Line series continues with a visit to a beehive to reap the rewards of owning a share in a beehive.  Our unusual edibles series continues by providing information on lovage, a perennial herb that is beautiful and delicious.   Finally, a small tribute to the fruit, berry and seed producing shrubs that help our feathered friends survive the winter. 
One day in November, I found two apples in a Robin's nest in one of my apple trees.  Not sure if the Robin was saving them for a bed time snack or the Squirrel found it a handy spot to store a couple of apples for later.

Edible Garden Newsletter November 2018

The Edible Garden Newsletter November 2018 is now available.  In our October Edible Garden Newsletter, we discussed the benefits of using a Grow Tent in your home to grow plants.  This month, we describe how to install the Grow Tent.  We also describe a Prairie Farmers family's War on Weeds and how weeds can become a benefit to the home garden.  Our series on unusual vegetables continues with a discussion on two perennial onions, the Walking Onion (shown above) and the Potato Onion.

Edible Garden Newsletter November 2017

The Edible Garden Newsletter November 2017 contains an Ode to the Chokecherry in an article about Progress and Regress on the Prairies and how much of the native fruit species and fruiting hedges have been plowed under to make way for mega farms.  We learn how the factors that affect taste of vegetables and fruits are many and intertwined.  Finally see how an Allotment Garden can ease the transition from life on a large rural country garden to a high rise condo.  All of this in the November Edible Garden newsletter.

Edible Garden Newsletter November 2016

The Edible Garden Newsletter 2016 demonstrates ways gardeners can do what they love all year round.  We also start a new series demonstrating different methods of preserving herbs, this month focusing on freezing them.  Finally, for the frugal gardener, how long will your surplus seeds last and how to test if they are still viable.

Edible Garden Newsletter November 2015

Do you want to grow your own edibles but you do not have enough full sun?  This issue of the Edible Garden Newsletter features "Shad-ibles" or Edibles that grow in less than full sun.  Many gardeners compost all summer long but give it up when winter rolls around.  Find out how you can keep producing your black gold all year long.  Read more

Edible Garden Newsletter November 2014

Permaculture is the philosophy where the gardener works with nature, not against.  We care for the earth and we care for people and return the surplus back into the system.  This issue features articles about how one gardener brought this philosophy into a practical implementation.  Learn what a Hugel is and how to create and use one.  Book reviews, recipe and more.  Read more.