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Whether you're new to gardening or an old hand, working with a large garden or confined to a tiny balcony, everyone has a smaller space where they want to grow plants. The 2022 edition of The Prairie Garden covers the all-important gardening question: what can I grow where? And how do I get the best out of the space I am working with? Learn about light and how it works to feed our plants, how to keep potting soil fresh and viable, about house plants, making small gardens look bigger and making gardens where you’d never believe possible. Guest editor, Mr. Tomato, introduced Kozy-Coat water-teepees, Sea Magic seaweed concentrate and other products to the gardening world. He has received 10 top awards for home grounds landscaping and authored a best-selling booklet, “Secrets of Starting and Growing Seedlings Under Lights.” He also has designed gardening catalogues, been a guest speaker at many gardening club functions, guest-hosted a gardening radio program, and has been featured on CBC’s “Canadian Gardener”.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SMALLER PLACES
Topic
Author
Tricks for turning small garden spaces into BIG
Mr. Tomato
Dwarf coniferous shrubs ideal for the small garden
Philip Ronald
Focus on foliage: Eye-catching combinations for small space gardens
Sheryl Normandeau
Gardening in the sky
Greg Klassen
Prairie in a pot: The small space gardener can also enjoy wild flowers
Kelly Leask
Designing a small urban garden
Shannon Gage
Add seaweed to get the most from your plants
Mr. Tomato
Bonsai in the garden
Stu Innes
Size small, not too tall: Smaller-space hardy shrubs, roses and trees for the compact garden
Rick Durand
Perfect peppers in pots
Tiffany Grenkow
Growing under lights: How to build a simple three-tier light stand
Mr. Tomato
Vertical garden vines: Perennial and annual
Sandra Venton
Growing up! Making the most of a small garden space
Janet Melrose
Overwintering potted trees
Ian Wise
Window boxes can open your world to year-round delight
Dorothy Dobbie
Saving space: Dwarf trees, big apples
Sara Williams
Living the gardening dream in Nopiming Provincial Park
Robin and Annette Cadzow
Creating a microclimate in a zone 3 garden
Diana Dhaliwal
The challenge of growing a tayberry on the prairies
Ian Wise
Free fillers and spillers
Linda Dietrick
Small space gardeners need to understand how roots interact with healthy soil
Dorothy Dobbie
Sprouting seeds: Small children gardening in small spaces
Janet Melrose
Primer for a bird-watching novice
Sherrie Versluis
Mushrooms in small spaces
Tom Nagy
"Living fences" are a creative gardening opportunity
Mark and Ben Cullen
Pollinator plants for a smaller garden
Linda Dietrick
Balcony gardening: Create a haven in the sky
Dorothy Dobbie
Terrariums: Create your own world of wonder
Rita Campbell
Ideas for water features in the small garden or balcony
Dorothy Dobbie
Tips for growing veggies in containers
Jerry Filipski
Iris trivia
GROWING INDOORS
Topic
Author
The surprising gem at the International Peace Garden
Tim Chapman
Miniature orchids
Chris Bryan
Surprising varieties of well-known exotic houseplants
Dorothy Dobbie
Solar power and plants: The miracle of light, colour, and pigments
Meera Sinha
Houseplants and sunlight
Meera Sinha
Success with cyclamen
Susanne Olver
Variegated foliage tropical houseplants
Meera Sinha
GENERAL
Topic
Author
Amaryllis, the queen of flowering bulbs
Eva Patrician
Super amaryllis
Susanne Olver
Can you believe it’s grown locally and served in a Churchill restaurant?
Joan Airey
At last, a miracle killer of creeping bellflower and thistle
Mr. Tomato
The Skinner horticultural legacy: Looking backward, going forward
Hugh Skinner
Confessions of a coleus addict: Growing coleus in the sun
Igor Kaftan
Avoidance: Is it an option for disease management in the home garden?
Andy Tekauz
A small cutting garden
Shauna Dobbie
Low light tolerant plants: Fruits and vegetables adapted to lower light conditions can be grown year-round on indoor windowsills in Canada
M.P.M. Nair
Grow your own greens right at home!
Bev Rapinda
The power of plants
Susanne Olver
How to control sucking pests of protected plants
Ian Wise
Stunning and sturdy, salvia provides impact and lasting garden beauty
Sarah Piercy
Pushing plant hardiness in zone 3 with vegetables
Brent Poole
Friend or foe: Wasps
Susanne Olver
Gardening for specialist bees: yellow loosestrife
Jason Gibbs
Growing giant pumpkins: A beginner’s guide
Milan Lukes
Indigenous gardeners could teach us a thing or two
Wayne Douglas Weedon
Beware the red menace of roses
Ian Wise
Roses for colder climes
For the love of peat!
Holly Spencer
Canada’s Diversity Gardens at The Leaf
Tropical plants and how to love them
Marianne Willburn
Plant your own Three Sisters garden
Plant partners: Science-based companion planting strategies for the vegetable garden by Jessica Walliser
reviewed by Brent Poole
Iris technica
Manitoba Historical Society collaborates with The Prairie Garden to make important historical resource available online
Dr. Gordon Goldsborough
Q & A
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