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Growing Fruit in Cold Climates: Hardy Trees, Fruiting Hedges & Home Orchards with Véronique Alexandre
Growing fruit in cold climates might seem daunting, especially if you have a small home garden. But with the right trees and a creative mindset, it’s surprisingly achi...
Creating a Perpetual Food Garden That Sows & Grows Itself
What if some of your vegetable garden crops came back year after year — with less digging, less fuss, and a continuous harvest?In this episode, I’m joined by gardening...
Growing Tomatoes Like a Pro with Frank Hyman (Insights from Ripe Tomato Revolution)
Ever get to the end of the growing season and realize your tomato patch didn’t live up to the expectations you had when you planted it in the spring?In this episode we...
Prairie Plot & Lots of Tomatoes: A Manitoba Gardener’s Top Varieties and Growing Tips
Today we continue our cross-Canada tour, chatting with food gardeners, and sharing crop and variety ideas to help you as you plan your 2026 garden.We head to Manitoba,...
Lawns into Lunch: Growing in Front Yards with City Street Farms (and top crops!)
We continue our cross-Canada tour, chatting with inspiring gardeners to hear about favourite varieties and top crops. Today we head to Regina, Saskatchewan, to chat wi...
A Journal, a Garden, and a Mother’s Love
Today we’re joined by Helen Battersby, who talks about a gardening book that began as a coping tool. Helen tells us about Margaret Bennet-Alder, who turned to gardenin...
Can’t Choose What to Grow? Favourite Veg Varieties with Niki Jabbour
We continue our cross-Canada tour, chatting with inspiring gardeners to find out favourite varieties and top crops. Today we chat with Niki Jabbour, a CBC radio garden...
Lavender got Smoked by Cold? Plant Choices for the Prairies with Dave Hanson
We continue our cross-Canada tour of inspiring gardeners to find out favourite varieties and top crops.Today we chat with Dave Hanson, co-host of The Grow Guide podcas...
A Tomato that Sets Fruit When its Cold? Vegetable Varieties for a Cool Climate, with Linda Gilkeson
Leafy greens always seem to bolt too quickly? Can’t figure out why your broccoli isn’t forming heads? Choosing vegetable varieties suited to your climate helps avoid t...
Long, Skinny Garden? Hear How We Tweak This Space
Not sure what to do with a long, skinny, straight-edged garden beside a driveway, patio, or building?In this episode, we take a long, slender ornamental garden and rei...
Want to Switch Out Your Annuals? Try These Herbs Instead
Do you have a garden where you use traditional annuals, but you want to switch it up for something edible?Herbs are one option.In this episode, we look at a space that...
Hear How We Tweak a Public Space to Keep the Aesthetic but Add Edibles
Wondering about adding edible plants to an existing gardening without spoiling the aesthetic?With the right plant choice, along with an understanding of how the space ...
From Geranium Glut to Playful Herb Planter Box! A Container Garden Makeover
Thinking of veggies for your container garden? Or planter boxes with herbs? In this episode, we look at a patio surrounded by planter boxes that are filled with red ge...
Bare Ground, Hard Clay, and not Much Sun: Hear How to Transform this Space
Got a spot you’d like to use to grow food but not sure where to start?In this episode, we tackle a bare space with hard clay, in zone 3.Let’s not forget the deer and r...
Too Cold for Tender Fruit? Hear What this Prairie Grower Does
Think your climate is too cold to grow tender fruit? Find out how this grower harvests peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, and more…despite winter temperatures that ca...
Not Enough Space? Fit in More Crops With These Ideas
Do you have more seeds and plants than you can fit into your garden?It’s a common problem for the enthusiastic food gardener!In this episode, Donna and Steven talk abo...
Tips for Growing Great Tomatoes
Want to grow great tomatoes? With the right transplanting and care, your tomatoes will be off to a great start.In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about:Transplanti...
It’s the May 24…Wondering What Veg to Plant?
Wondering when to plant vegetables? Not sure what to plant first?You don’t need to plant everything at once.In this episode, Donna and Steven talk about when to plant ...
How to Harden Off Seedlings: Simple Steps So Your Seedlings Survive Transplanting
Your vegetable seedlings can look great indoors. Then fall like dominoes in the garden.If they’re not hardened off.But if you harden off seedlings, they stand a much b...
Saskatoon Berries: Tough as Nails (as this Zone 2 Grower Explains)
Wondering about fruit to grow in a cold climate?Today we head to Alberta, to find out how to grow saskatoon bushes. Arden Delidais grows in Zone 2—and doesn’t get any ...