Country Gardener

Last weekend, in the nick of time for our open garden day tomorrow, my husband John finally got his carved granite water feature running. T...

If you're worried about your crispy lawn and drought stress, here's good advice from Pam Charbonneau, a turfgrass expert at the Guel...

So that big cold front, the one that prompted severe thunderstorm watches all yesterday afternoon, what did it yield? Nothing, not a drop! Z...

Still horridly dry: the map above tells the story. Yellow means low, orange very low, and brown, extremely low. The full map with legend is ...

I don't think a lot of gardeners know that serviceberries are edible. It's kind of fun to pick berries from a landscape plant. Our ...

In honour of the summer solstice, I made rhubarb custard pie for the garden helper crew today. It was not my finest effort: store-bought pie...

Well, we got a little rain today with the thunderstorms and cold front coming through southern Ontario. But these systems are pretty spotty,...

Every year we have four or five barn swallow pairs nesting in our small barn. We keep our gardening tools and mowers there, and as the swall...

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...

Yep, we've got drought stress . We're almost into the middle of the month, and the only rain we had so far - a thunderstorm last Fri...