Plant Stakes

Somewhere around the third week of July, every unstaked tomato plant in Canada has the same idea at once: fall over. Usually right after a thunderstorm, usually onto the pepper plant next to it, usually the same week the fruit finally starts to ripen. If you have ever gone out to the garden after a … Read more

Every Canadian gardener knows the feeling: you step outside after a June rainstorm and find your prize peony face-down in the mulch, petals scattered like it lost a fight with the wind. Tall flowers — peonies, dahlias, delphiniums, gladiolus — carry blooms that are genuinely heavy relative to their stems, and once a stem bends … Read more