Top dressing is the process of applying compost, soil, or sand over the surface of your lawn. It has been performed on golf courses since the sport was invented in Scotland, but has only recently become popular on home lawns. … Continue reading
Quality compost is hot stuff Dean Dack of Classic Compost has to drop the handful of compost because it’s become so hot, and he’d like to see that byproduct used to heat greenhouses in winter. By Judie Steeves – Kelowna … Continue reading
Hello everyone! It’s that time of year again, when we are all getting anxious to get our gardens going! We are looking forward to meeting up with all of our yearly customers again and hearing about this years’ yard project, … Continue reading
–by Karen Connolly, Licenced Property & Strata Manager, Kelowna. Mission Creek Towers’ gardens were looking tired. The developer’s landscapers had covered the soil in the raised gardens and other beds with a good 4-6 inches of bark mulch–in some areas, … Continue reading
You can apply some common practices used in farming to your garden this fall for a spectacular garden next spring — plant a cover crop! Often, green manure crops are grown for a specific period, and then plowed under before … Continue reading