Garden Tips

Join Holly MacKay, Hollyhock Garden Manager for a Spring tour of the Hollyhock Garden. We are excited to show you…

Kale is a nutrition superstar and we lovingly grow many types of it in our Hollyhock Garden. Did you know…

In this Garden Tip video, Hollyhock Gardener Dana shares a few basic practices that you should do to make sure…

Did you know that you can actually grow wasabi and that it’s a root? Hollyhock Gardener Dana shows us how…

Hollyhock Gardener Dana shows us how to prune tomatoes. Pruning your tomato plants helps them direct energy towards producing fruit,…

We use succession planting in the Hollyhock garden, planting greens every two weeks, to maximize our harvest throughout the season. Hollyhock…

Tulips are perennial, meaning that they can come back every year from their underground bullbs. However, tulip season runs from…

Gem, one of our stellar gardeners, demonstrates how to make a soil mix with compost, peat moss, vermiculite, lime, and…

Tomato grafting became popular in the 1960s as a way to reduce certain diseases caused by soil-borne plant pathogens. Grafting…

Towards the end of the season when we are cutting back all of the perennials and digging out the annuals…

[mk_image src=”https://hollyhock.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/img_1437-e1567620777143.jpg” image_size=”full”]To harvest basil, it’s best to pick the new growth or the flowering tips at the top of…

[mk_image src=”https://hollyhock.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/image1-e1564866173212.jpeg” image_size=”full”][mk_image src=”https://hollyhock.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/image3-e1564865174340.jpeg” image_size=”full”]A healthy start is paramount to success, this rule rings true when starting your day with…

For many years, we have delighted the palettes of people all over the world with our famous Hollyhock recipes. Did…