Trowel Talk Newsletter December 15, 2020

The Trowel Talk Newsletter for December 15, 2020 is now available.  This month our gardeners share information about:

• Norfolk Island Pine, sometimes used as a Christmas Tree;
• Christmas Cactus, a welcome sight at Christmas;
• Growing a Rex Begonia plant from a leaf cutting;
• Using leaf cuttings to provide a continuous supply of fresh  herbs;
• Plants for all seasons--Evergreen Native Ground Covers.

Our Ask a Master Gardener column provide tips to help keep your  houseplants alive if you are going away for a few weeks and also gives an approach to keep your upright cedar trees in good form.

The Master Gardeners of Lanark County and Ottawa Carleton wish you all the best over the Christmas season and health and happiness in 2021.

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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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Trowel Talk Newsletter October 15, 2020

 

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

• Garden Magic--Planting bulbs with the kids, a sure fire way to get your kids, young and old excited about gardening
• Who Let the Moths Out--The invasion of Gypsy Moths and what you can do about it.
• Goldenrods--A beautiful but often misunderstood native plant in its many forms
• Fallen Leaves--The collective wisdom of Master Gardeners and their many uses for fallen leaves
• Ask A Master Gardener.

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Trowel Talk Newsletter September 15, 2020

 

The Trowel Talk Newsletter September 15, 2020 is now available. In this issue, we feature:

• a lesson on drying beautiful hydrangeas from your garden so you can enjoy them all winter long. 
• Native grasses once covered vast stretches of Ontario and Saskatchewan prairies.  They are now recognized as a valuable part of the modern gardens. 
• September is the perfect time to divide you Daylilies if their clumps are growing too large.
• Creeping Bellflower is an Invasive plant whose beauty invites itself in to your garden.  Learn how to remove it.
• Lemon Verbena is an amazing culinary herb.  Learn how to use it in a variety of methods.
• Finally, Ask a Master Gardener column answers two fall gardening questions.

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Trowel Talk Newsletter August 15, 2020

 

The Trowel Talk Newsletter August 2020 is now available.  This month, we focus on:

• A Kale for everyone
• Ask a Master Gardener
• What Vegetables can I plant now?
• What is this ugly black mess on my plum tree?
• Fruit trees for an Urban Garden
• Joe Pye Weed is our Native Plant Profile
• From the Garden focuses on Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed
• Book Review of the New Canadian Garden by Mark Cullen

We have tips, quotes and the garden activity calendar for August for both the Vegetable and Ornamental Gardens.

Above is a newly planted Serviceberry.  A wonderful fruit bearing native plant that fits almost any size garden

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Trowel Talk Newsletter July 15, 2020

Trowel Talk Newsletter July 2020 is now available.  This month our feature article describes one gardener's transformation from lawn to a beautiful 'meadowscape' garden that quickly became home to many pollinators. Another author describes favourite beets and how you can grow them in your garden.  If you cannot grow herbs in your garden or do not have a garden, consider easy to grow and low maintenance herbs in a container.
Japanese Beetles are the bane of many gardeners existence. We provide tips for slowing them down and even getting rid of them.
This month, our Ask a Master Gardener answers questions about growing a tomato plant in a pot and What do I do with me Bleeding Heart after blooming?
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Trowel Talk Newsletter June 15, 2020

The June 15, 2020 edition of the Trowel Talk Newsletter is now available. This month, we feature articles on:

Calendula, an annual flowering herb sometimes called 'Pot Marigold' or Poor Man's Saffron

 Ask a Master Gardener--answers to questions about Hostas and Iris

Garden Safely--tips on how to garden without injury

Planting to preserve and beautify your shoreline, important buffers between land and water 

Garden Mint--Frightened by mints invasive reputation?  It can be controlled so you can enjoy.

Onions Galore!--Onions can also be ornamental too.

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Trowel Talk Newsletter May, 2020

The Trowel Talk Newsletter May 15, 2020, is now available, brought to you by the Master Gardeners of Lanark County and Ottawa Carleton.

This month, given the downturn in the global economy, due to Covid-19 pandemic we suggest methods to Grow Food to share.  One popular early vegetable is the radish.  The author provides tips for growing radishes and suggests some varieties that you may not have tried.
In the ornamental side, we answer the question "Who put the Zinn in the Zinnias?".  Our Native Plant this month is Vernonia: Bold and Beautiful Ironweed.
This month's Ask a Master Gardener answers a question about the Annabelle Hydrangeas.  If you would like to see your question answered in this newsletter or simply have a question, click on the Helpline button on the last page.

Garden Centres are opening and our Garden season can get underway.  Plant Sales, Gardening events and Clinics have been cancelled but will hopefully return later this summer.

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