soil preparation for tomatoes

• Planning, Pruning and Picking Up

Prune while the shrubs are bare. It's easy to see dead, broken or crossed branches before the shrub leafs out. Prune back blackened (winterkill) canes of rose bushes. This year the Free Press promotions department is planning a June garden tour with proceeds going to its Newspaper In Education program and is looking for outstanding gardens in the Winnipeg area. If you'd like to participate by showcasing your garden as part of the tour, send a brief description and a few photographs, along with your name, address and telephone number to: Christa Richard, Promotions Co-ordinator, Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB R2X 3B6, or e-mail christa.richard@freepress.mb.ca The Wellness Institute at Seven Oaks General Hospital is offering a four-evening program on Fundamentals o...

.... Repot houseplants with fresh soil in a pot one size larger. . Give dusty houseplants... type of cloche to warm up the soil where tomatoes and peppers will go in the veggie patch. . Start s... gardening, vegetable gardening, soil preparation, fertilizing, planting tips, square-foot gardening...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 18, 2009

• Gone Gardenin' -- The Vegetable Season That Was

In our town garden, my practice of succession planting of radish and lettuce again kept us in salad greens all summer, and now the fall cold frame will continue to protect late lettuce plants until early November.

... task of cleaning up our gardens in preparation for winter, most of us spend a good deal of time r... than by design -- was to plant a row of tomatoes on the opposite side of the garden from the others... plants the minute they emerged from the soil. In our town garden, my practice of succession pla...

• Brandon Sun, The
• October 05, 2010