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How to grow asters, both annual China asters and native perennial asters: seed starting, cold stratification, bloom timing, companion planting, and cut-flower care.
Growing Black-Eyed Susans From Seed Black-eyed Susans are the golden anchor of a North American summer garden — daisy-shaped flowers with dark central cones that pull in bees, butterflies, and goldfinches from midsummer through the first frost. The confusion that…
Rose seeds have two dormancy locks, not one — a sleeping embryo and a hard endocarp. Here's the scarify-then-cold-warm-cold protocol that actually works, species by species, plus the wild roses that come true from seed.
Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds Review After more than a decade ordering sprouting seed from Mumm’s, it’s the seed I recommend to anyone who wants clean, reliable sprouts at home. This review covers who Mumm’s is, what their seed is actually like…
Grow bee balm (Monarda) from seed to bloom — surface-sowing and species-specific cold stratification, zone-by-zone timing, the powdery-mildew playbook (including which species resist it), companion planting, and harvesting leaves for fragrant Oswego tea.
Grow lemon balm from seed to harvest — sun, soil, and zone-by-zone timing, why it spreads by seed (not runners like mint), how to stop it taking over, and how to dry and freeze the leaves so they keep their calming lemon-tea flavour.
📅 Ontario’s Planting Window Shifts Six Weeks From South to North The right time to plant in Ontario depends entirely on where in the province you garden. Windsor gardeners can set out tomatoes in mid-May while growers around Sudbury are…
🌶️ Before You Grow Okra Okra comes into its own at exactly the moment the rest of the garden gives up. In the dead heat of July and August — when tomatoes drop their blossoms, lettuce bolts, and peppers sulk…
🦌 Growing Chicory for Deer Food Plots Every food plotter knows the summer hole. Your clover browns off and goes stemmy in the July heat, your brassicas are still weeks from being worth a deer’s time, and the native browse…
☕ Growing Chicory for Coffee, Radicchio & Belgian Endive Chicory is the most quietly influential plant most gardeners have never deliberately grown. That roasted, earthy note in New Orleans café au lait? Chicory root. The ruby heads of radicchio and…
