Country Gardener

May is on deck, which means dandelion season will be in full swing. In Ontario, traditional herbicides for killing dandelions, plus a host...

This is astonishing to me. We are in the "extremely high" area at the tip of Lake Ontario. (Click on map to see it larger.) © Yvo...

There's a lot of talk and much written these days about "food miles" and eating locally-grown, and preferably organic, produce...

Gypsy moth egg masses on a young maple in my neighborhood A few weeks ago I put an article about gypsy moth caterpillars up on my gardening...

Yesterday's rainfall amounted to 4/10ths of an inch in total, but it stayed cloudy, cooler and dampish all day, which was a blessed reli...

If you're a weather geek like me, and you live in Ontario, you may be interested in the link below. It takes you to a summary of precipa...

This map (click on the picture to see a larger version), which I found on the Agriculture Canada site shows the areas of extreme dryness fo...

In my previous post , I wrote about the aesthetic problems of road salt, and how the slush it creates makes winter in the city so unpleasant...