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Leaf lettuce seedlings in cell pack
Gardening 101.5

Carbs? Protein? Polyunsaturated fats? French fries? Tofu? What should you feed plants to make them grow up strong and healthy? Herein, all is revealed.

Gas price rage

All the gas stations charge the exact same price at the exact same time. How do they do it?

Yellow Pole Bean Seedling
Gardening 101.4

Planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, watering, thinning. Hunter/gatherer is so last week. We're getting into agriculture.

Sprouting Bean
Gardening 101.3

In which is discussed the buying of baby plants from garden centres, along with the starting of one's own plants. And stuff.

Memo to new NDP MPs

Giggling on hearing the phrase 'honourable member' is unbecoming to a federal politician. Get a grip, people.

Gardening 101.2

In which practical and increasingly detailed advice is offered to the novice wishing to set up a vegetable grow-op

VIDEO BLOG: Crows and peanuts

Crows are among the smartest living things on the planet. But even the best of us encounter real problems; contributor Bruce Bourque caught video of a crow who had somehow lost half of his beak. Watch the video, and read Bruce's comments about the scene.

Gardening 101.1

It’s spring, when young men’s fancy turns to thoughts of gardening

The ‘Newfoundland and Labrador’ naming fiasco – Part 2

It started out being about Quebec's lust for Labrador, but it changed to being about Labrador disaffection.

The ‘Newfoundland and Labrador’ naming fiasco

Whose bright idea was this name-change thing, anyway?