Winter Gardening

It’s called “winter gardening”, and it happens when die-hard gardeners and those who simply can’t wait for spring tend to their gardens even when heavy snow buries the soil and bitter cold winds whip the bare branches of the trees.
They pore over seed catalogs, imagine the layout of their gardens, and create visions in their… »

Be a Good Neighbour

On Sunday, August 23 at 1:00 pm volunteers met near the St. Mark’s garden shed to coordinate another ‘weeding party’. With the recent rains, the weeds have grown vigorously on the paths and around the garden. Volunteers once again fought the battle against the invasion of weeds in the Food Bank plots and on the… »

Weeds Common to YARA-GRCG

We may have heard the advice jokingly given by parents to children who are pulling garden weeds for the first time: if it looks healthy and it’s growing vigorously, pull it out. But there is some truth in this; at least a few of us have probably looked over our gardens at some… »

Regina garden brings Afghan women peace, friendship

Nichole Huck interviewed three ladies from Afghan who share their story on CBC-Radio. The ladies shared their experience about leaving Afghanistan and adjusting to living in Regina and their first experience of gardening in Saskatchewan at the YARA-Grow Regina Community Garden.
“This is a place that even though there is a language barrier … you can… »

Low-Maintenance Gardening

Those of us who spend warm spring and summer days digging in the soil and getting our fingernails dirty don’t mind a bit of work; after all, as the cartoonist and illustrator Lou Erickson once said, and as we all know, “gardening requires lots of water-most of it in the form of perspiration.” But… »

Gardening Across the Generations: Ways for Grandparents to Help Grow Young Gardeners

You could say that my great-grandmother, my father’s grandmother, loved to garden, but I don’t think it would capture her passion. She had hundreds of flowers growing in beds all around the house and in every windowsill. She and my great-grandfather didn’t have much, only a wood furnace for heat, and yet her African… »

Butterfly Gardening

The Tohono O’odham Nation has a legend about the butterfly. As a gift to the people, the Creator took the most beautiful colours in the world, those of the sun, the lakes, the flowers, and the sky, and put them into a bag. When the people opened the bag, hundreds of butterflies flew… »

Ten Basics of Square Foot Gardening

Would you like a garden filled with beautiful flowers, luscious vegetables, fresh herbs, but NO WEEDS or HARD WORK? Well, that is what Square Foot Gardening is all about. I’ve taken all the hard work out of gardening. No heavy digging, watering, weeding, thinning, or over-flowering harvest. What is left is a productive, well-kept,… »

How to grow potatoes in a burlap bag

According to friends, this technique was recently popularized by Jamie Oliver. You can place your potato sack anywhere that has enough sunlight (6 hours or so midday)—even on the back steps, or where ever.

Get a coffee sack or, I guess, a potato sack if you can find one.
Roll the sack down. This is easiest with… »

Ruth M. Buck School Planting Day

Today, several Grade 1 students from Ruth M. Buck School planted their garden for Plant a Row - Grow a Row (PARGAR) at the Yara-Grow Regina Community Garden.  The weather was sunny, but windy!
Sheryl Miller, a loved Grade One Teacher at Ruth M. Buck School, has coordinated the planting of a garden with Grow… »

The Three Sisters

Three Sisters planting is a well-known technique to ancient Native Americans of growing Corn, Beans, and Squash together in an arrangement is the ultimate in companion planting and helps increase harvests, naturally!
This traditional Three Sisters gardening practice creates an environment that benefits the three plants - each plant helps the others grow. This is a… »