Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Native Agriculture and Plant Use
Canadian Flora
Pioneer Gardening
19th Century Seed Catalogues
Cultivating the Garden
The Cultivators
Reaping the Harvest
Bibliography
Photos by Beth Powning
Other Gardening Sites
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Planting the Seeds
Pioneer Gardening
| Canadian silver dollar minted in 1996 in honour of the McIntosh apple. |
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| Every pioneer family had a garden in which potatoes and turnips, pumpkins and melons were planted. Here the MacLaverty family tends the family garden in 1905 in the area of Battleford, Saskatchewan. |
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| A homesteading family on the prairies harvests the potato crop in 1928. |
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| Wash drawing of a pioneer home, 1879. Since the lawn mower was only invented in 1830, this would have been a very early model. |
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