Spruce up your outdoor space with trees, plants, shrubs, decor and more from these local garden centres.
Gardening & Yards
Worm castings are a by-product of vermicompost — basically, worm manure that works as a rich, natural fertilizer.
How to Give Your Flower Pots a Little TLC at the End of the Season
Recommendations include pulling out the old plants from the roots and, depending on the size of the pot, digging out some of the soil to compost.
The Case For Growing Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs in Containers
Sometimes, an otherwise wayward edible just needs lovingly enforced boundaries.
The Okotoks-area recycling company, which serves hair salons in Calgary and Southern Alberta, recycles around 80 to 90 per cent of the waste created in salons.
Pots can be moved to an optimal growing location in a yard and are ideal for growing anything that needs a lot of heat or has other special needs.
Plus, products and resources that will get you pumped up for the gardening season, which for zone 4A residents kicks off unofficially on the May long weekend.
All we really want out of our gardens is something gorgeous to fawn over, right? Kath Smyth of the Calgary Horticultural Society shares her top-five stunners best grown in pots.
Meet the Vulcan-based flower farmer who hopes to create more awareness around buying local and sustainable blooms.
Try one of these perennials to get the most of Calgary's short growing season