Edible Gardens
Seeding Your Veggie Garden
Growing How To
The Mighty Micronutrients: Keeping the Plant Growing
This post was co-authored by my awesome husband Tanner Pollack. Tanner’s background is agronomy (the science of growing crops) with a focus on crop production. He runs an agronomy consulting business and farms in Northern Alberta. Part 5: #TheNutritionSeries Ok. We lied. Originally we said this was going to be a 4 part series but
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Growing How To
What job does Sulphur, Calcium, and Magnesium have in our plants?
Secondary and Tertiary Macronutrients Part 4: #TheNutritionSeries This post was co-authored by my awesome husband Tanner Pollack. Tanner’s background is agronomy (the science of growing crops) with a focus on crop production. He runs an agronomy consulting business and farms in Northern Alberta. During our last post we explored Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), and Potassium
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Growing How To
#TheNutritionSeries Part 3: “The Big 3”
This post was co-authored by my awesome husband Tanner Pollack. Tanner’s background is agronomy (the science of growing crops) with a focus on crop production. He runs an agronomy consulting business and farms in Northern Alberta. In our last blog, we looked at the macronutrients that are abundant all around us – carbon, oxygen, and
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Growing How To
Why you need chemicals to grow your plants (and shouldn’t be afraid of them)
#TheNutritionSeries Part 2 This post was co-authored by my awesome husband Tanner Pollack. Tanner’s background is agronomy (the science of growing crops) with a focus on crop production. He runs an agronomy consulting business and farms in Northern Alberta. Why you need chemicals to grow your plants (and shouldn’t be afraid of them)
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Growing How To
What you should ask instead of “Is This Organic?”
2017: Year of New and Renew 2017 is learnplantgrow.com’s year of renewal. We’re going to refresh and renew the blog and website with our girl Tara from The Banner Years(formally Hatch & Harbour), and we’re going to spend a lot more time this year writing gardening information for you. We feel like we’ve got a
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Perennials
Fall Planting: What You Need to Know
Now that we’re into September it’s that time of the year where many of us are watching the leaves turn yellow, red, and purple on our trees and shrubs. We’re one big wind away from raking them up into piles (or mowing over them mulching them up into little, tiny pieces- my cheater way of
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Growing How To
7 tips for sprucing up your planters
It’s that time of the year where all our hanging baskets and planters could use a mid-summer spruce up. Here are 7 tips for sprucing up your planters to make them last into the fall Fertilizer re-evaluation. Have you been fertilizing those beautiful baskets of yours? If not, it’s a good time to give them
