garden tips

Preventing Pests in a Veggie Garden

Garden Tips /

The best defence is a good offence when it comes to veggie gardening. By regularly maintaining your veggie garden and being vigilant for the first sign of pests you can stay one step ahead of predacious insects and many plant diseases. Only the strong survive! Build healthy soil beds to ensure a strong start. Mulching and top-dressing your soil with compost or natural fertilizer is the best way to grow sturdy plants. Pull out weak […]

Preventing Pests in a Veggie Garden Read More »

Tips for a Bountiful Crop

Garden Tips /

Tips for a bountiful Crop! With concerns over pesticides and modified foods more and more people are turning to their own gardens for ways to fill their grocery list. This can be a challenging task considering many of us just simply aren’t working with fields to grow with. So the old adage work smarter not harder can really apply, with this in mind I offer the following tips to maximize your harvest. Grow what works

Tips for a Bountiful Crop Read More »

Winter Urn Construction

Instructional /

With Pinterest serving as such a fertile garden of inspiration it’s easy to get excited about creating your own winter urns. You can use dirt or a garden foam core as once it freezes it will hold everything in place. I’ve always found that most difficult part of building a container is deciding what will go in it. There are so many different options of decorator items and types of plants it can be hard

Winter Urn Construction Read More »

Whimsical Miniature Gardens

Instructional /

There’s something about miniature gardening that tickles our fancy. Whether it’s the whimsy or the idea of having a indoor landscape year-round, it’s caught our attention and that of thousands of folks around the globe. Miniature or Fairy Gardening as it is often called can be an entertaining hobby akin to building doll houses or model trains. Scale everything down; small plants, small gravel and tiny decor will ensure you have an enchanted space fit

Whimsical Miniature Gardens Read More »

The best plants for fall container gardens

Instructional /

It’s certainly felt like fall this past week. Not as cold as Calgary (snow in September?!!) but cold nonetheless. Weather like this inspires us to start refreshing some of our container gardens and baskets. We’ve talked before about the proper construction of containers and about fresh cut garden flowers so well limit this week to recommending plants, decorative branches and gourds that deal well with low temperatures and follow the thrill, spill, fill construction. Thrill

The best plants for fall container gardens Read More »

Contact Us

Monday to Saturday 8AM to 6PM
Sunday 9AM to 5PM

5677 King Street
Beamsville, ON L3J 1N5

905- 945- 1713
info@ridgeviewgardencentre.com

Shopping Cart
Products
0
Total
$0.00
View Cart
0
Scroll to Top