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Salad Garden Dreams and Slug Solutions

by Domestik Goddess on March 29, 2008

So my veggie garden is still under four feet of snow — does that stop a keen gardener from planning for a new planting season? Heck, no!
One of the first plantings that will go in (when Spring eventually arrives in Atlantic Canada) will be the salad garden of mixed mesclun greens and spinach [...]

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Save Your Berries From the Hungry Birds

by Domestik Goddess on January 28, 2008

While our friends Down Under are basking in gardening season, we in the Frozen North can’t see our gardens for snowdrifts… ah, but that never stopped a keen gardener from planning ahead for a new season’s harvest!
Me, I’m dreaming of sweet strawberries, fat gooseberries, tart white currrants, raspberries bursting sweet on my tongue, [...]

Tagged as: bird, garden, pest control

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The Desperate Gardener and the Homemade Deer Repellent

by Domestik Goddess on July 2, 2007

I can live with the adorable little deer eating my apple trees. Well, I can tolerate it because there’s not any practical way to protect the orchard, short of a ten-foot-high electric fence (not practical) — but when it comes to the flower garden, the deer had better keep off!
My pride and joy (and the [...]

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