
Growing Fruit in Our Backyard Garden: A Personal Experience
by Wendy MacLean, Master Gardener Beausejour, Manitoba Memories of shelves filled with jars of preserved fruit from our family’s backyard inspired me to grow and preserve some of my own fruit for summer and winter eating. When we …
Category: Newsletter Articles, Newsletters Tags: cupid cherries, educational, evans cherries, fruit growing, goodland apple, haskaps, inspiration, manitoba master gardeners, master gardeners, Newsletter, Newsletter articles, norkent apple, northern fruit, prairie, prairie fruit, prairie fruit growing, prairie gardening, romance series sour cherries, sour cherries, university of saskatchewan, valentine cherries, zone 3 gardening

My Love for Verbena Bonariensis
By Elizabeth Scales, Master Gardener Intern My favorite plant is Verbena bonariensis. Until a few years ago, I had never heard of this plant, nor had I ever seen it. It wasn’t until I was looking through a …

Interview with Board Member Virginia Stephenson
Interview with board member Virginia Stephenson Newsletter (NL): How long have you been gardening? Virginia Stephenson (VS): I started gardening in a small way with some vegetables and flowers when I moved into my home in Charleswood in …
A review of The Prairie Garden 2023: Climate Aware Gardening
By Darlene Belton, Master Gardener A dire theme, one that many would rather avoid, is faced head on in this year’s edition of The Prairie Garden (TPG) that styles itself as ‘Western Canada’s only gardening annual’. A vigorous …
Category: Newsletter Articles, Newsletters Tags: climate aware gardening, climate change, educational, gardening annual, inspiration, manitoba master gardeners, master gardeners, native plants, Newsletter, Newsletter articles, prairie, prairie gardening, sustainability, the prairie garden, western canada gardening annual
Invasive Ornamental Plants: What Home Gardeners and Professionals Need to Know
Invasive Ornamental Plants: What Home Gardeners and Professionals Need to Know Panel Presentation and Q&A When: Saturday, April 1, 2023, 12:30-3:00 pm Where: Canadian Mennonite University, South Campus Lecture Hall D30 Host: Manitoba Master Gardener Association Cost: $5.00 …

Who might be overwintering in my garden?
By Cameron Ruml – Living Prairie Museum Cameron Ruml is the interim Curator at the Living Prairie Museum, with over 10 years of experience in ecosystem management, tallgrass prairie restoration, and environmental education at the City of Winnipeg’s …

Rain Gardens: The Ins and Outs
by Mark Bauche, Master Gardener, MALA, SALA, CSLA Mark Bauche is a Landscape Architect and Master Gardener. Through his work at HTFC Planning & Design in Winnipeg, he incorporates climate adaptation into his designs and seeks out new …
Reducing my Lawn – One gardener’s perspective two years in
By Derek Yarnell, Master Gardener Two full growing seasons after having reduced the least ecologically productive part of my gardens – my front lawn – by about 50% or roughly 800 square feet, this is some of what …
Category: Newsletter Articles, Newsletters Tags: butterfly, butterflyway project, climate change, educational, garden planning, garden redo, gardening, inspiration, Manitoba, manitoba master gardeners, master gardeners, native plants, Newsletter, Newsletter articles, prairie, sustainability, winnipeg, zone 3 gardening

Cash in the Ash
Cash in the Ash: Using waste-stream products as sustainable growing media for horticultural crops By: Poonam Singh. Professor, Horticulture Science School of Agriculture and Environment Assiniboine Community College, Brandon, Manitoba Email: singhp@assiniboine.net The interest in biomass use as …