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McCauley Is Edmonton’s Gardening Community

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A hardy magnola flowers in a McCauely backyard.

Cultivate McCauley

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR AND PUBLISED BY BOYLE MCCAULEY NEWS AND DUSTINBAJER.COM

In the Fall of 2014, I was looking at a house just off Church Street – I decided on a whim to knock on the door of each potential neighbour and introduce myself. At one door, Naomi Pahl answered. Within minutes Naomi was giving me a tour of her yard. By the time I drove home, she had emailed me a list of fruit trees growing in her yard – in the event that I wanted to cross-reference it for cross-pollination purposes. I put an offer on the home, and I moved in at the end of October. Continue reading McCauley Is Edmonton’s Gardening Community

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Plant Your Garden Early

Plant Your Garden Early

Is May Long Weekend The Best Time To Plant A Garden in Edmonton?

Originally written for and publised by Boyle McCauley News and DustinBajer.com

When I was growing up, my parents kept a large vegetable garden in the backyard. Each spring, my Mom would bring out an ice-cream pail of seeds, a bundle of wooden stakes, a garden hoe, and a roll of twine she got from my Uncle – a nearby cattle farmer.

I watched as she paced the distance between rows – carefully placing one foot in front of the other – before pressing a stake into the ground. She repeated the ritual on the other side of the garden and pulled some twine tight between the stakes to mark the row. Tilting the hoe at an angle, she added a shallow trench along either side of the string. We were ready to plant. Continue reading Plant Your Garden Early