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There is much that home gardeners can do to adapt their gardening practices in the face of the increasing financial obligations to budgeting a household. In this year’s edition of The Prairie Garden, you can learn all about how the three R’s (reduce, reuse & recycle) can help you keep a garden. Learn how to save seeds & store rain water. Find out a way to keep pests like rabbits and deer from ravaging your tender new transplants. Whether you are a newcomer or a veteran gardener, there is much you can do to ensure that the garden you love does not need to go by the wayside. And, of course like always, there are numerous articles of general interest to all who garden during our brief and so sweet summers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Budget-Minded Gardening
Plant propagation
Stuart Innes
Thrifty and environmentally friendly gardening
Dr. Eva Pip
Spare a little love for your garden tools
Sheryl Normandeau
Saving your water-ollas!
Janet Melrose
Thrifty winter sowing
Derek Yarnell
Favourite unconventional plant pots
Linda Dietrick
Buying fruit, in this economy!? Tips on growing your own fruit forest
Carl Durand
Growing microgreens: a financial analysis
Lesa Guy
Good gardening practices leave us richer than we think
Alex Henderson
The three R’s
Diana Dhaliwal
Lilies galore
Leanne Dowd
Growing your own food opens the door to nutrition security
Tania Scott
Gardening outside the box: it’s for everyone
Linda Wall
Garden décor on a dime
Dorothy Dobbie
A seed-saving story…
Debbie Innes
An easy way to see if old seed can be used
Ian Wise
Thrifty drought gardening with peonies
Myra Froc
Save time and money and create a better-looking garden
Tim Wood
Changing the way you garden
Brenda Evans
Beware of free plants
Linda Dietrick
Growing tomatoes from seed
Gerald Filipski
The benefits of growing your own fruit: the case of southern Manitoba
Indy Mitra
Creating a fruit tree guild
Elizabeth Sellors
Fresh water conservation and gardening
Meera Sinha
The right rate of fertilizer
Lyle Cowell
Poem: A Gardener’s Dilemma
Stu Innes
Eight easy ways to save money in the garden
Suzanne Simpson
A tale of water barrels, IBC totes, and water conservation
Tim Evans
More on Prairie Gardening
Frost-tolerant vegetables
Ian Wise
A 'Splendide' obsession
Doug Mitchell
Lemons on the Prairies
Donna Balzer
Can you eliminate fairy rings?
Marcia Green
Underground plant storage organs
Evelyn Lundeen
What are bullet galls on oaks?
Ian Wise
In the heart of a dense forest
Shannon Gage
Book review: The Propagation Handbook
Doris Mae Oulton
My first vegetable garden
Shauna Dobbie
Soil health, plant health, your health
Gabe Brown
Unveiling the blossoms: anticipated rose varieties for 2025
Rick Durand
To share or not to share
Janet Epp
Growing apples in the north
Bob Osborne
Orchard in the dry belt
Patricia Psooy
Winter hardiness and garden success
Hugh Skinner
Peony leaf blotch: a personal story of discovery
Andy Tekauz
Conserving an endangered Prairie butterfly (the Dakota skipper) and its habitat in Manitoba
Dr. Katherine Dearborn and Dr. Richard Westwood
Book Review: No Dig – Nurture your soil to grow better vegetables with low effort
Brent Poole
The influx of the lily leaf beetle in the northern Plains
Ian Wise
A tree fell (...and it was heard)
Chris Penner
The magic of songbirds
Sherrie Versluis
Biodiversity in a city garden
Dr. Robert E. Wrigley and Thilina Hettiarachchi
Book review: The Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants of the Southern Great Lakes Region
Evelyn Lundeen
Obituary: Louis Marcel Lenz
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Fertile soil and the unsung rhizosphere
Meera Sinha
Beauty of Prairie plants: transforming landscaped spaces with seeds
Indy Mitra
The garden life
Eileen Rosen
Gardening basics
Evelyn Lundeen
Poem: The Rental Plot
Stu Innes
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