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There’s a tiny hummingbird flitting round the patio trellis, looking for the nectar from the red mandevilla cascading from its planter high on the trellis wall. The hummingbird can be considered symbolic of our Prairie summer: it is beautiful in the sun, as delicate as some of our summer flowers, and most of all, a fleeting presence. In addition to those beautiful brief summers, we must also contend with long, dark, and often stormy Prairie winters, and so we need to look at bringing our gardening activities indoors.
The late summer flowers – including echinacea, rudbeckia, and the oh-so-fragrant phlox – are in full bloom. It seems like just yesterday that the kaleidoscopic tumble of early summer flowers, featuring irises, peonies, and Asiatic lilies followed by daylilies, had just begun. When you walk out the door, the summer and early-fall heat wraps around you like a warm blanket. But remember: it never lasts too long. Get ready to curl up on the couch during winter storms with a different type of blanket – the newest edition of The Prairie Garden – and learn how you can garden indoors and out, all year- round.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Year-Round Gardening
Topic
Author
Pots and potting media: Make room for the roots!
Lyle Cowell
Everyone’s houseplant: The hassle-free pothos
Lesa Guy
“Plantify” your indoor space with hip houseplants
Joe Gadbois & Bob Stadnyk
Growing leafy greens hydroponically: A beginner’s guide
Daniel Elias
A complicated pleasure: Indoor bonsai
Joe Grande
Lighting the way for Indoor plants
Stuart Innes
African violets
Bonnie Batchelor
Starting vegetable seeds indoors
Margo McCall
Yes, you can have home grown lettuce all year
Wendy MacLean
Limited space: Gardening in a condo or apartment
Jeannette Adams
Discovering the unassuming Gasteria
Lee Goodfellow
Aloe vera: No kitchen should be without one
Susanne Olver
The Norfolk Island pine
Diane Marchese
Fungus gnats: Fungus-fancying flies
John Gavloski
Lavender: A favourite plant
Indy Mitra
A micro guide to growing microgreens
Sheryl Normandeau
My mysterious agave
Marilyn Dudek
Houseplants that are dangerous for dogs and cats
Ingrid Sproll
Essential tips for growing orchids at home
Joe Gadbois
Soil mould: Too much of a good thing
Lesa Guy
How to create a garden in a bottle
Evelyn Lundeen
Overwintering your succulents and succulent-like plants: Have you set yourself up for success or failure?
Rita Campbell
Starting native perennial seeds indoors
Kelly Leask
Know your bromeliad houseplant
Meera Sinha
The importance of proper headspace in containers and pots
Don Kinzler
Indoor gardening: A great learning experience for young people
Joan Airey
Keeping your holiday cactus out of the bin
Lee Goodfellow
Life grows at The Leaf
Laura Cabak
Night-blooming cereus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum)
Diana Dhaliwal
Elevate your indoor garden design
Margo McCall
More on Prairie Gardening
Topic
Author
Miniature roses: From supermarket to sunny garden
Barb Shields
Some thoughts on butterflies
Danny Blair
The Rainbow Community Garden
Brent Poole
A brief guide to composting
Evelyn Lundeen
Creating your own Wrigley Field with a low hedge fund
Ian Wise
Northern pyramid defies the elements
Peter Scharf
Let your roots breathe
Stuart Innes
Berry production in high tunnels
Anthony Mintenko
The potential impact of climate change on the severity of aphid damage to gardens
Ian Wise
Too old to garden anymore? Malarkey!
Joël Simpson
Black raspberries
Debbie Frances Stern
Gardening for wild bees: Milkweeds
Jason Gibbs
Raising the garden to new heights
Christine Hanlon
Gardening with deer: A suburban gardener’s tale
Meera Sinha
Cultivating lactobacillus: The workhorse of microorganisms
Richard Menec
From weeds to tall-grass prairie in one year!
Debbie Innes
Growing plums on the Prairies
Philip Ronald
Notes from a tree-loving gardener
Erna Buffie
Know where they came from!
Kristelle Falk
Hugelkultur
Norm Sylvestre
Delphinium delight
Sarah Piercy
Netting for protection of cruciferous crops against insect pests
Ian Wise
The role of hemiparasites in prairie ecosystems and reconstructions
Laura Reeves
How to grow mouth-watering melons in northern climates
Don Kinzler
Facts about fireblight in Canada
Ieuan Evans
Getting the garden ready for winter: A checklist
Lesa Guy
The mouse hotel: A cautionary tale
Susan Heidenreich
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