Vegetables

Ontario’s Latest Crop Craze: Artichokes Are on the Rise!

Ontario’s Latest Crop Craze: Artichokes Are on the Rise!

Growing artichokes in Canada may appear difficult due to the country's cooler climate, but with the proper care and attention, a bountiful harvest of delicious and nutritious artichokes is possible. In this article, we'll look at the best ways to grow artichokes in...

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The Best Tomato’s To Grow in Ontario

The Best Tomato’s To Grow in Ontario

  There are many tomato varieties that can be successfully grown in Ontario, Canada, depending on your specific growing conditions and preferences. Here are some popular tomato varieties that are well-suited for Ontario's climate: Early Girl: Early Girl is a...

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Fresh From the Kitchen Garden

Fresh From the Kitchen Garden

In late summer your garden is producing buckets of squash, armloads of kale, and heaps of beets, carrots, and other roots. Here are some creative ideas from HGSA Seed Companies on making use of your garden’s bounty. This small selection of recipes from Home Garden...

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Easy From Seed Vegetables

Easy From Seed Vegetables

Beans, Beets, Cucumbers, Kale, Peas, Radishes, Salad Greens, Squash, Swiss Chard Most of the vegetables typically grown in a home garden can be sown directly in the garden soil. These include salad greens of all kinds—lettuces, mizuna, arugula, spinach, and...

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See What’s New in Vegetable and Flower Seeds for 2019!

See What’s New in Vegetable and Flower Seeds for 2019!

Every year we ask our retail seed sellers about the vegetables and flowers they’re most excited about for the coming season. Read about their picks here. You’ll be wanting to plant a few of these luscious vegetables and fun flower combos in your garden this year,...

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Historic Victory Gardens

Historic Victory Gardens

Movements to create food gardens throughout the country to support World Wars I and II were examples of patriotism at its best. People were urged to grow vegetables on school grounds, parks, backyards, vacant lots, and even rooftops. In 1917 Charles Lathrop Pack...

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Growing Food Indoors

Growing Food Indoors

If you’ve never grown Microgreens, now is the time. These little bursts of flavor pack a substantial nutritional punch, and you can grow them in the light of a south facing window in as little as two weeks. Don’t despair if you don’t have ample natural light. LED grow...

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Top Ten Fall Varieties To Grow From Seed

Top Ten Fall Varieties To Grow From Seed

Heat loving vegetables and flowers such as tomatoes, peppers, and zinnias may be showing their age as fall approaches. But there are plenty of great plants that are invigorated by the cool nights and sunny days of September and October. Here’s what to grow for a...

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Essentials for Indoor Seed Starting

Essentials for Indoor Seed Starting

Even if you don’t have access to a greenhouse, you can create conditions that will allow seedlings to thrive. Tops on the list of essentials are: a good source of light, air that circulates, adequate heat, and soil that holds water without becoming waterlogged. And it...

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Growing Eggplants Successfully

Growing Eggplants Successfully

Eggplants come in all shapes and sizes, from mammoth 3-pounders to long, slender Asian types, to baby patio varieties. Which type is best suited for your garden depends on your region, your growing conditions, and of course your taste preferences. Left: ‘Black Beauty’...

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Growing Great Sweet Peppers

Growing Great Sweet Peppers

Yes you can grow great sweet peppers! The big blocky bell peppers you find in supermarkets need a long warm (but not scorching) growing season with temperatures that rarely dip below 60°F. If that does not describe your growing season, there are plenty of other...

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Understanding Cucumbers

Understanding Cucumbers

What’s to understand about cucumbers, you ask? The answer is: Plenty! You can grow pickling, slicing, seedless, and burpless cucumbers. Your plants can have all female flowers, or a mix of male and female. Some varieties do not need to be pollinated to produce fruit....

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Herbs and Vegetables for Winter Harvesting

Herbs and Vegetables for Winter Harvesting

In many regions winter growing is next to impossible without a heated greenhouse and supplemental lighting. Cold-weather harvesting, however, is a whole different story! With good planning, you can be harvesting greens, roots, and herbs through much of the winter....

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