Outdoor growing methods

As kids, we all know that plants need sunlight, healthy soil, and water to grow but as adults, it feels much more complicated. It's true that priotitizing these three top needs (especially soil!) will prevent most of your problems with pests and disease but what else do you need to know to be successful? This is the place to look for step by step, reliable growing information for growing in the coldest parts of Canada - because we all know that what works in California doesn't necessarily work well here!

Basic gardening

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Check out our Grow with USask series for recommended best practice advice for growing pesticide-free on the Canadian prairies and in northern Canada. We have prepared a series of these for all common fruits and vegetables grown here and will be adding more uncommon produce too. See the full list here. LINK

Remember, there are many ways to be a successful gardener and everyone who gives advice has a bias. We evaluate these different methods and choose what we consider to be best practices for our growers. This doesn't mean other ways won't work, it simply means we feel these are the best based on our criteria and we do update our recommendations periodically. For a detailed answer on how we decide our recommendations, see our article "Why have you chosen this advice".

Click on the Articles tab in this section for detailed information on a variety of basic gardening topics.

Beyond the basics

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Click on the Articles tab in this section for detailed information on a variety of more advanced gardening topics.

Maintaining your yard

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Click on the Articles tab in this section for detailed information on a variety of yard maintenance topics.