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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 - 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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