Category: In Your Garden
Garden Planning – Vegetables & Native Plants are Great Companions
We are tantalizingly close to spring and veggie gardeners have been deep in planning mode. Seed catalogues have been poured over, seeds have been delivered, seedlings are being started and dre…
Goodnight Gardens – A Simple 10 Point Plan
Fall Planting and Putting your Garden to Bed
Here at BUFCO we are winding up our 16th year, and we are as grateful for the upcoming hibernation as we are for all our loyal clients and customers…
Fall Gardening Tasks – Feed Your Community, Feed Yourself and then Feed the Soil
It’s that time of year again when harvest aprons swell and kitchen counters overflow with late season garden goodies. My fridge is stuffed with pole beans, hot and sweet peppers, tomatoes, kale …
Bee-Friendly Garden Care
Can our urban perennial gardens provide an opportunity for ecological conservation? We truly believe so! Traditionally, the focus of ornamental gardens has been mainly aesthetic and little tho…
Join the Cold Hardy Craze
You may be wondering why we are so keen on getting the ball rolling in the garden as early as April. It almost feels too soon and there is still the occasional frost or snowfall, so it doesn’t a…
“Make Meadows, Not Lawns!”
The Lawn: That perfectly green and manicured palette of Kentucky Bluegrass, was a signature of the American Dream. Neighbours could see that you had “made it” when your affairs were so in order …