If you are new to gardening, or just built a new garden, these steps are important for you to better understand what will be successful in your garden. Since each plant needs something different, understanding the best plants for your garden will ensure you are successful this season.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
Tomatoes are the quintessential garden plant. They are simple to grow, hard to kill, and very reliable. In this article you will discover which varieties are best for you and how to grow them from seed to harvesting the tomato bounty of your dreams!| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
Peppers are a heat loving crop that come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and flavours. They are a long season crop that require a lot of sunshine and heat and can be tricky to grow in Canada if you are new to growing. However, by the end of this article you will be growing as many mild, spicy or super hot peppers as you can fit, and eating peppers successfully by the end of the season.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
Eggplants are one of the best vegetables to grow and eat! They are underrated and underappreciated but taste delicious and can be used in so many ways. New varieties are slowly showing up at the grocery store, but for the longest time the large, mushy purple eggplants were the only variety on the market (Globe eggplants). And this mushy food is the only thing people associate with eggplant. I'm not sure who decided that this was the only variety that should be sold, but they made a mistake.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
Growing from seed is rewarding and allows you to grow more varieties than nurseries sell. However, there are common pitfalls that gardeners fall in to when growing from seed. These 8 mistakes are very common when growing from seed and are good to know in order to avoid them.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
This article is all about the equipment needed to grow your own seeds and plants indoors. This is a comprehensive guide that will touch on the equipment to grow indoors, what is a requirement and what you can choose to include to make growing easier.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
Ground cherries go by a wide variety of names including physalis, cape gooseberry, husk cherries, golden berries and, of course, ground cherries. They are part of the Nightshade family (tomatoes, eggplants and peppers) and very closely resemble the tomatillo. However, unlike tomatillos, ground cherry's are self pollinating which means you don't need to grow more than one plant.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada
To my delight, newspaper pots are becoming a trendy new way to garden. Why am I so delighted? Because they are a sustainable way to garden! So many of us get flyers in the mail, on our doorstep or even in the lobby of buildings. Instead of seeing them go to recycling, we can turn these into valuable pots, perfect for seed starting.| Gardening Advice Canada | Urban Gardening Canada