PRODUCT INFO
“Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.”
You can play the famous arrangement by Simon and Garfunkel of this old folk tune as you delve into this edition of The Prairie Garden featuring herbs and spices. The gardening landscape has changed drastically with the advent of the Internet. In addition to expanding ideas about how people garden, the scope of what people are growing in their gardens has also changed. That’s where this edition comes in by hoping it will entice gardeners into trying to grow herbs and spices that once seemed unlikely to become candidates for growing in prairie gardens.
You can read about basil, cilantro, hyssop, rosemary, hops, and tea tree. Learn about plants that are poisonous including belladonna, henbane, datura, & monkshood. One of the poisonous plants includes the beautiful blooms of foxglove which contain digitalis, a medication that has been used for centuries to treat heart disease. There’s an article on how you can turn herbs like myrtle, rosemary and lemon verbena into a bonsai. More practical information can be found on how to grow a better herb garden and recipes featuring herbs.
Our general section includes discussions on Itoh peonies, black knot fungus and a new species of fruit flies affecting berry crops on the Prairies.
Look forward to reading a well seasoned edition of The Prairie Garden!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topic
Authors
The Guest Editorial
Dave Hanson
Contemplating Herbs
Dave Hanson
Herbal Travels: Capturing the Spirit of Provence in a Prairie Garden
Andrea Ratuski
DIY Herb Propagation
Dave Hanson
Five Tips for Better Herb Gardens
Dave Hanson
The Organic Herb Garden
Dave Hanson
Herbs for the Compost Bin
Dawn Kitching
Herbs of Beauty
Stefan Fediuk
Wild About Herbs: Herbs from Nature
Kelly Leask
The Black Swallowtail Butterfly: An Ornamental Insect of Dill
Ian Wise
Giant Herbs: Ornamental Bee Magnets
Jeanette Adams
The Stories Weeds Tell
Joel Penner
This Bonsai is Delicious
Michael Collins McIntyre
Flavour in the Flower Beds
Fran Wershler
In Celebration of Herbs: The 20th Anniversary of the Herb Society of Manitoba
Natasa Juck
Tried and Tested Herb Recipes
What to Do with All Those Herbs
Teresa Lopata
"Basil's at the Top of the List": A Conversation with Chef Kelly Andreas of Diversity Food
Linda Dietrick
Herb Recipes
Linda Dietrick
Cilantro and Friends
Dave Hanson
Watercress
Susanne Olver
Growing Sweet Potatoes in the Prairies
Tiffany Grenkow
Hyssop (Hyssopus Officinalis): A Plant for the Ages
Tania Ottenbrit
Rosemary for Remembrance
Susanne Olver
Garden Sorrel
Susanne Olver
Grow Your Own Cinnamon Tree!
Dave Hanson
Herb Mimics
Dave Hanson
Delicious Vanilla
Susanne Olver
The Physic Garden: A Teaching Garden for Medicinal Plants
Colin Briggs
Growing Hops in a Home Garden
Jason Stow
Cimicifugas/Acteas
Sandy Venton
The Common Dandelion: Rethinking a Misunderstood and Undervalued Weed
Dr. Jatish Kaler
Tea Tree ... a Perfect Exotic for "First Timers"
Dave Hanson
Herbs and Ukrainian Immigration in Manitoba
Dr. Eva Pip
Plants with Jobs: A Day in the Life of an Educational Greenhouse
Carla Zelmer
When Plants Can Do Serious Harm: The Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle
Dave Hanson
Annual or Perennial? That is the Question
Susanne Olver
Adventures of an Urban Gardener
Terry Macleod
Itoh Peonies in the Garden
Sandy Venton
A Baby Boomer and Rosyblooms
Rick Durand
The Spurge Hawkmoth: A Garden Pest of Ornamental Cypress Spurge with a Beneficial Past
Ian Wise
So Remind Me: Why Am I Still Doing This?
Linda Dietrick
Mythbusting: The Soil Under Evergreen Trees Is Very Acidic ... False!
Terry Enno
Spotted Wing Drosophila: A New Insect Pest of Berries on the Prairies
Anthony Mintenko
Black Knot Fungus: A Destructive Disease of Maydays and Chokecherries
Dr. Ieuan Evans
Herb Profiles
Dave Hanson
We Remember Gary Platford
Frances Wershler
In Memory of Ed Czarnecki
Sandy Venton
Q & A
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