Little Green Sprouts

Grow restaurant-style seeling vegetables, known as 'microgreens,' as you put your regular garden to bed for the season.

Manic Organic

Growing Organic is easier than you think...

A Tomato by any other Name

Heirloom varieties-unlike their rounded red, grocery-store cousins-are tomatoes of another stripe-by Jim Hole

Holy Terroir

Chefs who garden while they work

Herbs enliven winter cuisine with fresh flavours. Here’s how to preserve your own crop—whether homegrown or from a farmer’s market.

PLUS: Dry Wit
Try growing these herbs—or using them dried in your next winter dish.

What To Do Now: Summer
Live & Let Dry
In the dog days of summer, it’s inevitable we’ll hit a dry patch. That doesn’t mean the garden (or the gardener) has to suffer.

PLUS How to dry garden.
TIPS Dry-loving plants are easy to identify by their thick foliage. A few beauties to try.

How To
Eat Your Greens
Why relegate vegetables to the veggie patch when they can be just as pretty as a petunia?

PLUS How to integrate edibles in an herb garden.
BOOK REVIEW Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn by Fritz Haeg

Essentials
Dirty Words
Beautiful gardens start from the ground up.

TIPS It’s easier to amend the soil before you plant than to try to fix it after your plants are in place. Adding organic matter to your garden soil every year is far more important than any fertilizer.

Essentials
What Will Your Garden Grow?
Whether your garden is wet, dry or urban, these Western experts have chosen the right plants for the task.

How To
Pot O'Gold
The four-step secret to planting beautiful container gardens.

PLUS How to choose the right plants for containers.

Volunteer
Wwoofing It Up
These keen young international workers are definitely not dogging it on B.C.’s organic farms.

Gear
Get Gardening
Getting your hands dirty is a pleasure with these tools that make the job easy.

Wellness
Spalicious
The rise of spa and resort cuisine: culinary programs where you’ll be tasting, slicing, dicing—and acquiring killer recipes to take home.

Ingredient
Peachy Keen
Some of the West’s top culinary minds riff on the fuzziest fruits.

Point of View The seamless transition between indoors and out is the hallmark of this Calgary home.
Some Like It Hot A garden thrives in the heat of Edmonton’s dry summers.
Avant Gardening Big, bold and beautiful colour makes a splash in this Vancouver garden.