That extra basket of cucumbers from your garden can not only get you juicy tomatoes in return, but help you get to know your neighbours and increase community…
Read more How to Start a Neighbourhood Fruit and Vegetable Exchange – Garden TherapyThe best time to start a vegetable garden was yesterday. The second-best time is today. To help reduce your grocery bill at home, try growing these vegetables. And…
Read more How to Reduce Your Grocery Bill by Vegetable Gardening – Garden TherapyAre you ready for the pumpkin harvest? Get ready with this ultimate guide on how to pick a pumpkin. Whether you’re a certified jack-o-lantern artist or a pumpkin…
Read more Preparing for Pumpkin Harvest: How to Pick the Perfect Pumpkin! – Garden TherapyIt’s just days away from the first frost, and you’re looking at your green tomatoes wishing they would just hurry up already. I’ve been there…we’ve all been there!…
Read more Can I Harvest Green Tomatoes? Tips for Ripening and Harvesting – Garden TherapyThis time of year, we begin to say goodbye to this year’s vegetable garden and plan for next year’s. What better way to do both of these things…
Read more How to Save Seeds & Improve Your Vegetable Garden – Garden TherapyThe perfect combination of sweet and spicy, ginger is a unique flavour that I just can’t get enough of. Whether you want to recreate the spiciness of ginger…
Read more How to Grow Ginger at Home (In-Ground and Containers) – Garden TherapyDitch the vegetable garden and redesign your food garden as a forest! Food forests are a traditional but seriously cool practice of growing your own self-reliant mini forests…
Read more Plant a Backyard Food Forest for an Abundant Source of Food – Garden TherapyDon’t just grab the first plant you see! Pick up your seedling and give it a thorough check with these tips on how to choose garden plants and…
Read more Buying a Plant: 6 Tips for Choosing Seedlings for Your Garden – Garden TherapySo many people are picking up organic gardening (yay!), but finding organic plants can become tricky. Organic plants must undergo a rigorous certification process, making them harder to…
Read more Do I Need to Buy Organic Plants and Seedlings?Over time, we collect quite a bit of herbs. From harvesting plenty from the garden to buying for that one recipe, you might have quite an array of…
Read more How Long Do Dried Herbs Last? – Garden TherapyRaised beds have taken the gardening world by storm, and just about every vegetable gardener claims at least one raised bed in their design. But are raised beds…
Read more Raised Beds vs. In Ground—Which is Better for Gardening? – Garden TherapyHave you ever noticed that most streets are tall, mighty oaks, maples, spruce, and pine? Very few fruit trees are planted on public property, despite their ability to…
Read more Why Don’t Cities Plant Fruit Trees? The Call for Urban Orchards – Garden TherapyYou won’t find these at the grocery store! These rare vegetables and fruits are hard to come by unless you grow them yourself. Out of the thousands of…
Read more Rare Vegetables and Fruits You Can Only Grow – Garden TherapyAt some point, annual veggies took over the popularity contest. We’re so used to seeing neat rows of carrots, cucumbers, beans, and tomatoes that we forget there are…
Read more Maximize Your Space and Effort With a Layered Garden – Garden Therapy
