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The articles in this edition will help you make your garden both fruitful and beautifully ornamental. The articles cover a wide range of potential edibles from your garden including vegetables, fruits, tree nuts, flowers, wild plants, and mushrooms. Recipes are also provided for those who are home cooks and want to try eating the bounty from their gardens. Those who are home canners will also find an article to enjoy.
Vegetable articles are plentiful and include ones on heirloom tomatoes and various squashes, beans, and onions as well as one on the benefits of vegetable gardening. Read about the various nut trees including hickory and hazelnuts (also known as filberts). Fruit trees abound on the Prairies, and you will find information on apples, wild plums, crab-apples, sour cherries and sea buckthorn. Also look to information on shrubs like saskatoons, and black and red currants.
Looking for something different? Try edible flowers like daylilies, the petals and hips from roses, marigolds, pansies and violas, and many others. If you are interested in drying some of these beauties, check out the article on orris whose root from the iris of the same name has long been known as a preservative.
For the more adventurous readers, read information on edible mushrooms. Various herbs, in addition to being used in food, can also be used medicinally. Exercise caution with these products though, make certain that you know exactly what plant or fungus you are consuming, growing, preparing, or using as a medicine.
Hopefully, one or more of the articles contained in The Edible Landscape will encourage you to add edibles to your garden.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topics
Authors
An Editorial Note
Audrey Law Hosegood
Guest Editorial
Jim Kohut
Rest From Garden Pests
Holly Mawby
Integration – A Whole New Way of Thinking: Edible Landscaping
Jim Kohut
Edible Flowers for The Prairie Garden
Sandra Gowan
Edible Landscaping with Heirlooms
Mary Brittain
Some Favourite Heirloom Vegetables
Tanya Stefanec
Growing Nut Trees on The Prairies
Rick Durand
Dwarf Sour Cherries for The Prairies
Patricia Hanbidge
Eastern Asia’s Contribution to Hardy Fruit Development
Hugh Skinner
Black & Red Currants for The Edible Landscape
Robert Shearer
Saskatoons on The Prairies
Warren Otto
Dehydrated Fruit
Linda Tomlinson
Home Canning No Easy Task
Fran Wershler
Vegetable Gardening – Naturally
Merv Pritchard
Heirloom Tomatoes
Barbara-Jean (B.J.) Jackson
A Few Magical Beans...
Stella Kohut
Garlic, an Ancient Food & Medicine
Colin J. Briggs
A Herb Lover's Haven
June Harris
Wild Plants: Are They Edible or Poisonous?
Gary Platford
A Medicine Cabinet in Your Backyard
Scott Chaussee
Orris Iris: The Original Preservative
Eleanor Hutchison
A History of Herbalism on The Prairies
Patricia Hanbidge
The Vegetable Garden: Beyond its Monetary Value
Alexander Oliver
Multiplier Onions
Phil Isaac
On Landscaping & The Edible Garden Concept
Doug Hevenor
The Incredibly Edible Flowering Crabs
Jim Kohut
The University of Minnesota Display & Trial Garden
Julie Weisenhorn
Explosive Crispness – The Honeycrisp Apple
Jim Kohut
Allotment Gardens: Past, Present & Future?
Karen Lind
Grow a Row for Your Canine Friend
Susanne Olver
My Mighty Tasty Garden
Mary Popien
Enhance Your Survival Skills & Your Dining Enjoyment
Yves H. Prévost
The Unwelcome Dinner Guest
Stefan Fediuk
Element(s) of Surprise: Mushrooms
Carla Zelmer
Gourmet Perennials: Daylilies for Dinner & Lilacs for Lunch
Coreen Franke
Sea Buckthorn: Exploring its Prairie Potential
Laura Poppy
University of Minnesota Blueberries
David L. Hansen
The Best of Both Worlds: A Biography of An Apple
Ray & Fran Batenchuk
Apple & Crab Apple Fly Maggot Control
Michael Allen
Wild Plums in The Old Northwest
Ray England
“Dig for Victory”
Holly Mawby
The Grey Nuns of The Red River
Susanne Olver
St. Andrews Market Gardens
Ruth M. Asher
How Cold Kills
Ieuan R. Evans
Cold Frames
H. David Matthews
Native Cacti in The Garden
Gwen Jamieson
Gardens & Cats
H. David Matthews
Beausejour Daylily Gardens
Carol Bender
The 2006 Prairie Garden Award for Excellence
Jean Pomo
Barbara Laschkewitsch of Fargo, ND, USA
Wilbert Ronald
Dr. Wilbert Ronald of Portage la Prairie, MB, Canada
Linda Pearn
Book Review: In A Cold Land – Saskatchewan’s Horticultural Pioneers
Hugh Skinner
50 Years Ago: Judging Canned Fruit
Mrs. W.S. Frazer
Gardens & Friendships Blossom
Jo McCrea
Q & A
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