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CBC
06-05-2025
- Climate
- CBC
Planting before the May long weekend? It depends what you want to grow, and how
Some green thumbs are finding ways around the old rules about when to get that spring garden started Media | Should you wait until Victoria Day before you plant? Caption: How and what you plant might make a bigger difference than when you get into the garden this spring. Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. As sure as spring frost turns to morning dew, gardeners are once again weighing the old maxim that you shouldn't plant before the May long weekend if you want to reap a healthy harvest. Should you wait for June's first moon? Or does a changing climate mean an earlier final frost? More than a dozen early spring shoppers were browsing the hollyhocks, roses and compost at the east-end location of Ritchie Feed and Seed when CBC News visited on a recent weekday morning to ask about their long weekend plans. "That has changed. It's now the middle of May," said Sheila Lang, who was looking for climbing roses. "I guess it's global warming or whatever." Stephanie Dragan was looking for Canadian-bred roses, all the better to take advantage of the sunny weather. "Just because the weather seems to be warming up and so I find we can get a little bit more of a head start on the season," she said. "Things like cold weather vegetables, roses — I like to get planted out a little bit early." Benoît Côté prefers observable measurement over groundhogs, almanacs or old sayings. "You subscribe to what the weather is and what good old Environment Canada and other people are telling you," he advised. "You just go with it." On top of the warmer weather, Victoria Day falls relatively early this year on May 19. The garden centre's general manager warned you never know when a late frost will strike. "That wisdom is mainly for annuals and veggies and stuff that are a little less frost-hardy. Usually in May, as long as the soil is warmed up enough, perennials, trees, shrubs — they can go in earlier," Michael Ritchie said. Protect your 'babies' At the Growing Together Community Farm near Shirley's Bay in Ottawa's west end, volunteers start their first shifts in the second week of May, and there's a greenhouse prepped for a seedling sale on the weekend of May 24. Maureen Russell, a self-described "crazy tomato lady," is organizing this year's sale and understands the temptation people feel when they bring home a fresh bounty. "They're so eager to put them out in the garden, and that's when you're going to get failure," she said. Russell uses improvised cloches made by cutting the bottoms off plastic bottles to get her tomato plants going. She has also draped sheets and towels over plants to shield them from a late May frost. "I'm an anxious gardener," she said. "You can take chances with your seeds, but you also need to protect them because they're babies!" Image | Hélène Hébert gardening consultant Aylmer Gatineau Quebec Caption: Gardening consultant Hélène Hébert stands in front of a protective fabric tunnel at the year-round garden she maintains at her home in the Aylmer sector of Gatineau, Que. (Matthew Kupfer/CBC) Open Image in New Tab Plant and harvest all year Over in the Aylmer sector of Gatineau, Hélène Hébert is already harvesting spinach, onions and other hardy crops under the protection of a low fabric tunnel. "Most gardeners in Canada are just begging for the last frost day to happen, and I don't care about that! I really don't. I just plant whatever is adapted for the season I'm in," she said. Hébert is a gardening coach with online courses on year-round gardening. She said climate change has made summertime gardens more vulnerable to hazards such as hail in the spring. She said without protection for heat-loving plants like tomatoes and peppers, gardeners may want to wait until the second weekend of June to plant outside. Meanwhile, Hébert said her shoulder seasons are benefiting from warmer winters. Spinach she planted in October is ready for harvest, and she added spring plants in March. "Where I planted my spring garden used to be my winter garden…. The soil in there thawed while there was still snow around, so I was able to start planting my spring garden early," she said. "It gives you so much more freedom. It shatters the limitations we think we're bound to [in] gardening."
Daily Mail
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Frumpy Pamela Anderson looks worlds away from Baywatch glory days in grey 2025 Met Gala gown
Pamela Anderson embraced a more understated style while appearin g at the Met Gala 2025 in New York City on Monday. The former Playboy pinup, 57, looked worlds away from her Baywatch glory days as she showed off a conservative new hairdo paired with a grey Tory Burch gown while arriving at the at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ditching her long platinum blonde tresses, the Last Showgirl star rocked a short bob with blunt bangs for the occasion. Her floor-length long-sleeve gown, which featured a bateau neckline and exaggerated hips, was covered in sparkling details throughout. Continuing her recent embrace of a more natural look, the actress showcased her complexion with minimal makeup. While on the red carpet Pamela revealed her glam 'only took a few minutes' calling it 'very simple.' Pamela was joined by her son Brandon Thomas Lee, 28, at fashion's biggest night. The star accessorized with Pandora jewelry for the event. Meanwhile Brandon, whom she shares with rocker ex Tommy Lee, 62, looked dapper in a classic black tuxedo. Pamela also posed with the designer of her gown, Tory, 58, at the event. In a red carpet interview, Tory praised Pamela as 'otherworldly' and said she was beautiful 'inside and out.' Anderson's Met Gala debut last year saw her in a flowing Oscar de la Renta gown, channeling Old Hollywood glamour. After several decades in the spotlight, the star has shocked fans with bold beauty and fashion changes in recent years, including opting to go makeup-free for red carpet occasions. She's turned a corner in her career over the last year, gaining critical acclaim for her 2024 starring role in The Last Showgirl. The Canadian-bred beauty earned her first Golden Globe nomination with the release of the Gia Coppola-directed feature, and amassed Oscar buzz. However, the film did not become a contender when the 2025 Academy Awards nominee list was unveiled in January. Pamela was a good sport about the snub, telling Elle magazine at the time, 'Oh my gosh, it's not something I ever expected. Doing the work is the win.' Anderson starred on Baywatch for five seasons, from 1992 to 1997. She played the iconic role of C.J. Parker, a stunning lifeguard. Other big names at this year's event included Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya, Gigi Hadid, Simone Biles and more. Every year on the first Monday of May, a series of A-listers gather in their most extravagant looks for a lavish ball hosted by Vogue editor Anna Wintour. The annual invite-only event has a theme each year, with this year's theme as 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' inspired by Monica Miller's work, which includes her book Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. It is meant to pay homage to black dandyism, a style with European roots which started post-Emancipation and came out in full force during the Harlem Renaissance. Monica is the chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College, as well as a professor at the institute. According to Monica, Black dandyism is 'a strategy and a tool to rethink identity, to reimagine the self in a different context. To really push a boundary - especially during the time of enslavement, to really push a boundary on who and what counts as human, even,' via Vogue. The 2025 gala theme focuses on menswear, 22 years after the 'Men In Skirts' theme - which was the first gala to focus only on menswear. The Met Gala 2025 will be co-chaired by Wintour, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, and Pharrell Williams. NBA icon LeBron James was one of six athletes named to the committee of the 2025 Met Gala. Unfortunately, the Lakers star won't be attending.
