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Posted by Amy as Gardening at 1:41 AM EDT

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It’s spring, and my thoughts are turning to gardening. In Canada, and especially my province (Saskatchewan), our growing season is short and the weather can be a challenge. If it’s tough for us now, I find it hard to imagine what it would have been like for the settlers.

Here’s a site that attempts to explore that concept: Cultivating Canadian Gardens: The History of Gardening In Canada.

This site is an online exhibition by Library and Archives Canada. The exhibition has a broad scope:

The exhibition, “Cultivating Canadian Gardens”, tells the story of the development of gardening in Canada through the books, periodicals, and printed materials collected, for the most part, by the National Library of Canada. It begins with the earliest recorded information on the plantings of the Hurons who had been tending their crops long before Europeans arrived in North America, and concludes with a brief look at the flood of printed material now available across the country.

There are various sections, each with subsections. For example in the “planting the seeds” section, there are explorations of 19th century seed catalogues, native plants, and other items.

Under “cultivating the garden” one of the features is Railway Station Gardening.

It’s a nice browse in this time where it’s still too early to plant.

Posted by Amy as Gardening at 11:15 AM EDT

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