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A patch of annual red poppies creates a brilliant, striking effect in the garden.
Farm Life

Commemorative red poppies honour lives lost and look great in the garden

Plus, who was Skookum Jim?

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Thanks again to faithful readers for joining me on the Singing Gardener page and a golden hello and handshake to first-timers. Welcome to Ted’s world of words. At times my subject material can go beyond strictly gardening and may also include matters pertaining to health and wellness, recipes, music, folklore and even something historical. For […] Read more
The Earliana heritage tomato was introduced in 1900. Large, red, blemish-free fruits ripen mid-season, weigh eight to 12 ounces each and are perfect for slicing or canning.
Farm Life, Fruit/Vegetables

Hippocratic medicine — much still applies today

Plus, a recipe for fried green tomatoes

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The green medicine movement continues to advance. Have you ever given consideration to starting your own home green pharmacy medicine chest? “Your food shall be your medicine and your medicine shall be your food” is a time-honoured statement from the Greek founder of Western medicine, Hippocrates, which is as valid today as it was way […] Read more
Jonita Johnston harvests Bluebell grapes for fresh eating and juicing. The speed and enthusiasm with which she picks loads of grapes, apples and other fruit and veggies is amazing. Bluebell is hardy in Zone 3 Prairie winters.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Meet a Manitoba grape grower

Singing Gardener: Plus, the health benefits of carrots as well as their tops

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This is the month for seasonal Christmas carols, lots of home baking, giving and receiving of gifts. Need I say more? This is also my final Grainews column for 2021 and more Singing Gardener wandering words to come in 2022. If you’re looking to buy a Christmas gift for someone you’ve not seen for a considerable […] Read more
From this group of ingredients for making brownies, can you correctly choose the one that might be deemed a mystery ingredient and another not used in the recipe at all?
Farm Life, FarmLife

A brownies recipe with a twist

Singing Gardener: Plus, remember our veterans on November 11

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Have you ever known a fellow human being who bellyached a little or a lot? Well — there’s a plant known as “Bellyache Bush” (Jatropha gossypifolia). It’s a shrubby perennial originating from warmer parts of the world, bearing many flowered panicles of small reddish-purple blooms in season. As for its common name Bellyache Bush — […] Read more
Commonly known as Cushion Spurge, you may want to add this garden showpiece to your landscape.
FarmLife

Research shows berries are good for your heart

Singing Gardener: Plus, don’t forget to get those evergreens ready for winter

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What kind of a gardening season has 2021 been for you so far — and how do you feel about gardening this year? If you want to write to me and share a little or a lot about that, I’m a good listener and Grainews subscribers are great readers. Most often sharing is good medicine, […] Read more
This photo taken in April 2021 is a female Anna’s hummingbird enjoying apple blossoms.
Farm Life, FarmLife

What to do if you get stung by an insect

Singing Gardener: Plus, a reader shares her experiences with hummingbirds

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It was the third ring on my telephone when I picked it up and answered. A woman with an anxious-sounding voice on the other end said, “Hi Ted, this is Marlene. I just got stung by a wasp or a bee — not sure which. I was outside folding towels that had dried in open-air […] Read more
Attract hummingbirds by planting long-lasting, nectar-bearing annual and perennial wildflowers such as in this seed blend.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Attracting hummingbirds to the yard and garden

The Singing Gardener: Plus, here’s how to grow a sunflower summer house

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Hummingbird seed blends are available consisting of 16 species of both annuals and perennials. When in bloom such flowers are irresistible to hummers attracting them to no end. I’ll provide names of some flowers found in such seed mixtures. Making homemade sugar and water drink is on my list of another thing we can do for […] Read more
Heirloom Melon de Montreal was cultivated until 1905 in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, on the foothills of Mount Royal.
FarmLife

Ted nominates this melon from the garden as his favourite of 2020

Plus, info on some insect pests and a recipe for bannock

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Lots to talk about so I shall keep my intro to the point. Subject matter includes my successful venture with planting and growing Melon de Montreal. There’s a gardener near Rapid City that found little white worms in her raspberries and I, Ted, suspect that other gardeners may have also been challenged with the same […] Read more
This close-up shows the superb beauty in a single clematis flower.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Ted answers questions about clematis, cabbages and tomatoes

Singing Gardener: Plus, some pest controls to try out on your garden plants

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A gardener recently told me about his disappointing and frustrating experience with a clematis. “It suddenly collapsed after appearing in good health earlier.” He continued, “It’s as though someone had cut off the entire plant at ground level, when in fact such wasn’t the case. What happened?” he asked of me. I told him: “Sounds […] Read more
Ted the Singing Gardener sang his “Manitoba Marathon Rally Song” and other tunes on Father’s Day, June 16, 2019 in Winnipeg.
Farm Life, FarmLife

Singing Gardener: Ted entertains at the Manitoba Marathon in Winnipeg

Plus, some weather lore to test out and some zucchini recipes to try

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It’s good to toot your horn once in a while except in this case there are no bells, whistles or horns, although I do recall horns tooting the day I became a married man decades ago. This year’s yellow and green zucchinis in my half-acre garden are awesome. I’ve a second batch of zucchini youngsters […] Read more

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