Canada's Local Gardener Volume 2 Issue 4

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Letters to the editor

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just read your Volume 2, Issue 3 and I have to say it’s really interesting. I’ve been growing peanuts for years in Southern Ontario. I never get a huge crop but I always get a few I can roast and eat. There’s nothing like peanuts fresh out of the oven. Yum yum. Also I never knew about so many different kinds of woodpeckers. I think I’ve seen the northern flicker and I thought it was a dove. The magazine looks really nice. I was wondering one thing though, and that is, what’s on the cover? Betty Love, Southern Ontario Thank you for your kind words! The picture on the cover of Volume 2 Issue 3 has rosy and yellow begonias and a yellow gladiolus, peeking out from behind.

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’ve been reading this magazine for just over a year now. You’ve told me to grow blueberries (not a problem), pineapple (makes a nice houseplant) and now peanuts? I have a question for you. Do you grow all these plants? But keep up the good work. I enjoy a challenge. William Malton, email Haha! These “Have you ever tried…” articles are all research pieces. I am always inspired to try the hard-to-grow item, but I’m waiting until I’ve moved to a place with more land. V

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rom the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association on Canada’s Local Gardener, nominated for Manitoba Magazine of the Year: “With a friendly and engaging tone, the jury found Canada’s Local Gardener demonstrates an intimate knowledge of the reader and subject. This publication is easy to dig into thanks to tight editorial and a thoughtful breadth of topics and ideas. This is solid publishing in action.” Thanks, AMPA!

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’m so excited to find a national magazine for gardening! The issue I have says Volume 2, Issue 2 on it. So where can I find the first year of copies? And will you be doing more? I really miss Canadian Gardening and Gardening Life. I used to subscribe to both. And I’ll be subscribing to you too

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Beguiling begonias!

4min
pages 6-8

How to get started

5min
pages 61-62

Beautiful Gardens: Olivia Warrington, Winnipeg

5min
pages 49-53

Beautiful Gardens - Larry Hodgson, Quebec City

8min
pages 44-48

Beautiful Garden: Spirit Garden, South Surrey, B.C.

5min
pages 54-60

Tree canopy cover in Canadian communities

7min
pages 42-43

Potatoes

12min
pages 38-41

Earth-sheltered greenhouse

7min
pages 34-37

Storing and preserving garden produce

12min
pages 30-33

Two olde dawgs: Planting the Vegepod

3min
pages 26-27

Seed saving

4min
pages 28-29

Have you ever grown wheat?

5min
pages 24-25

Wildflowers and weeds: Toadflax

1min
pages 20-21

Mosquitoes

5min
pages 22-23

Dog-friendly garden plants

2min
page 13

Grow a pollinator lawn

2min
page 12

Dear readers and gardeners

2min
page 4

What plants do the royals favour?

2min
page 14

Making new shrubs

5min
pages 16-17

How to build a labyrinth

3min
pages 18-19

Letters to the editor

2min
page 5

Potted, spotted begonia

2min
pages 10-11
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