Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden
Know What to Do in Your Ontario Garden — Month by Month
Gardening in Ontario comes with its own set of challenges. Our seasons can change quickly, our growing season is relatively short, and knowing what to do — and when to do it — can often feel like the hardest part.
Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden makes it easier.
Written by landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing, this practical month-by-month guide brings together years of horticultural and landscape design experience to help both new and experienced gardeners create healthier, more beautiful gardens with less guesswork.
Your Month-by-Month Guide to Gardening in Ontario
Instead of trying to remember when to prune, plant, divide, fertilize or prepare your garden for the next season, simply turn to the appropriate month to learn what needs your attention.
Organized into four colour-coded growing seasons for Southern Ontario, Down the Garden Path walks you through the gardening year with easy-to-follow monthly advice, seasonal reminders and practical to-do lists.
Each month covers the areas of your garden you’re most likely to be thinking about, including:
- Seeds and bulbs
- Annuals and perennials
- Fruits and vegetables
- Deciduous trees and shrubs
- Lawns
- Seasonal garden maintenance
- Planting, pruning and ongoing care
Whether you’re wondering when to start seeds indoors, when a shrub should be pruned or what you should be doing in the garden before winter arrives, you’ll have a trusted reference close at hand.
Practical Advice From Two Experienced Landscape Designers
Joanne and Matthew have spent years helping homeowners create and maintain gardens that work with their properties, lifestyles and local growing conditions.
They’re also the voices behind the long-running Down the Garden Path radio show and podcast, where they share practical gardening advice, answer common questions and help listeners make more confident choices in their own gardens.
That same down-to-earth approach is at the heart of this book.
You’ll learn about topics such as:
- How to grow and maintain a healthy green lawn
- When to start seeds indoors and how to harden off young plants
- How to choose and care for upright cedars
- When and how to prune different plants
- What to plant, move or divide throughout the growing season
- How to prepare your garden for changing seasons
- And much more
Spend Less Time Guessing and More Time Enjoying Your Garden
You don’t need to know everything about gardening. You just need to know what your garden needs next.
Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden gives you a clear roadmap through the gardening year so you can make informed decisions, stay ahead of seasonal tasks and create a garden that becomes easier to maintain over time.
Keep it on your bookshelf, beside your gardening tools or wherever you can reach for it throughout the year.
Your Ontario garden changes every month. Now you’ll know what to do when it does.
To reach the authors, email dtgpthebook@gmail.com.