Understanding your soil type in any part of your garden is an essential bit of knowledge; consider it the starting point to all growth in the garden. Many plants will have particular soil requirements only being able to thrive if set conditions are met. While you can...
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Growing Garlic Successfully: Tips and Tricks
Growing garlic is both easy and rewarding. Once you've cultivated and harvested your very own, all other garlic will be lackluster in comparison. It's a wonderful addition to any garden, whether large or small. Surprisingly, unlike many other members of the vegetable...
How to Dry Flowers with Emerson Wild
You've procured your flowers, whether foraged, home-grown or locally sourced. And now it's time to dry. Drying flowers is a beautiful practise that dates back thousands of years. It has roots in practicality for things like medicine and perfumes, but also has long...
Dried Flowers: Foraging, Growing and Sourcing
Drying flowers takes all the things we love about fresh flowers and lets us hang on to them for longer. It's a practice that aligns with a conscientious and slow ideology. It requires time, patience and an understanding that the process cannot be rushed. Whether it's...
Summer Container Gardening: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Few sights are more welcomed than an overflowing and full container garden at the height of the season. Teaming with life and colour, attracting pollinators large and small-alike. Enjoying a morning coffee, or an afternoon book and observing the buzz around your...
Companion Planting Herbs for Pest Control
On a previous installment of The Wild Blog, we introduced companion planting; with special focus on compatibility of common vegetable-garden favourites. While this introduction acts a guide for achieving the best growing conditions and therefore harvests, companion...






