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On the Down the Garden Path Podcast, landscape designer Joanne Shaw discusses down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens, and landscapes. She believes it's important and possible to have great gardens that are low maintenance.

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Oct 29, 2024

In this encore presentation of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing provide some tips and tricks and do’s and don'ts for your November garden. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode:

  • Planting bulbs
  • Cleaning up your vegetable garden in time for winter
  • Why you should not cut back your...


Oct 21, 2024

Fed up with critters stealing your bulbs or waiting for the foliage to die back after your bulbs finish flowering? In this episode of Down the Garden Path podcast, Joanne Shaw explains why creating a layered bulb planter may be the solution you’re looking for.

How to build a layered bulb planter:

  • Choose the container...


Oct 15, 2024

This week on Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw explores the benefits and steps to creating a no-till lasagna garden.

What is lasagna no-till gardening?

  • Often called "lasagna" gardening because of the layering involved or no-till gardening because there is no need to dig up and disturb the existing organic matter.


Oct 1, 2024

In October in the Garden, Joanne Shaw reviews some of the tasks you can do this month but insists it's not as labour-intensive as you may think!

Tasks you can do this month:

Vegetable Gardens

  • Clean up and remove the old stems of your tomato or pepper plants that have stopped producing.
  • Sow cool weather plants like...


Sep 23, 2024

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw discusses how to extend the blooming season in your garden by adding asters.

Topics covered in this week's episode:

  • Gardens don't have to stop blooming in September. We can extend the season to October and November.
  • It’s very important to have because the...