Gardening

Saturday August 30, 2014

Fresh from your FALL garden!

You can still get fresh veggies from your own garden as late as in October!

Tereska Gesing of Urban Seedling spoke with Pierre Landry about how to plant and harvest your own garden in the fall.

photo from Urban Seedling

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Categories: Food, Gardening

Saturday May 31, 2014

Incredible Edibles NDG

A collection of community groups in NDG is planting vegetables and herbs on Sherbrooke street and in other parts of the borough as part of an effort called Incredible Edibles NDG.

The produce will be free for the public to harvest, with the overflow going to the NDG Food Depot.

Today is their big planting event and they're calling on people to help them build planters and start gardens today, using the Coop de la maison verte as their home base.

Lousie Legault is on the board for Action Communautaire NDG and she spoke about the goal for the project.

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Categories: Activities, Food, Gardening

Saturday May 24, 2014

Create your own monarch oasis

The monarch butterfly is in danger. This year scientists recorded that the size of the hibernating monarch cluster this winter was half that of last year.

Fortunately you can do a lot to help the monarch thrive in your own home garden. Maxim Larrivée is the entomologist with the Montreal Insectarium. He gave Sonali a few tips.

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