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I’ve been joking this summer about how my husband has been trying to take over our vegetable garden. He grew a ton of peppers in our hoop house, which we’re using in tomato sauce and salsa. Recently, Bill decided to roast peppers, which I think is a great way to preserve them. This is his first season for roasting them. […]
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Now that fall is here, that means it’s time to move our hoop house. Then we can put in the last of the winter garden. Some of you might not be familiar with this. Even though we live in USDA zone 5, I can still grow vegetables year-round, without any supplemental heating. More on that in a moment. I thought […]
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There is a fantastic event coming up that you really need to know about! It’s the 2018 Fall Banquet, which is a fundraiser for the Spokane County Master Gardener program. Wait until you hear who the keynote speaker will be: New York Times bestselling author, Andrea Wulf (pictured at left), will give a presentation on Alexander von Humboldt. He is […]
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I have been really excited about today’s column. That’s because it is a profile of my sister, Anne Moore Knapp, and her beautiful garden in Gig Harbor, Wash. Here is a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Artist’s colorful landscape designed to age gracefully. (you can also read it lower in this post) To be honest, this was an […]
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This summer, it has been such a treat profiling local gardeners. After all, seeing how others garden gives us ideas for growing our own gardens, right? In today’s column, I profile Felicia Heinz who lives on Spokane’s north side. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Going vegan helps cultivate a green thumb. (or you can read my column […]
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Have you been following my videos about ways to ripen green tomatoes before the end of the season? There are three steps to it. Just today, I released the third in my series of videos on what needs to be done in early September. In order to keep those three videos together, I decided to embed them all here. That […]
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One of this region’s most highly-anticipated events will take place next Saturday: the Friends of Manito fall plant sale. Here is a link to my column: Find hummingbirds’ favorite perennials at Friends of Manito Plant Sale. (or you can read my column lower in this text) My apologies to those of you who don’t live in the Inland Northwest. However, […]
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I was in Chicago recently for the garden writers conference. In addition to networking, we have the opportunity to visit amazing public and private gardens. Boy, do we all enjoy that! One public garden that particularly stands out is the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park. Located between Monroe and Randolph Streets, along Michigan Avenue, Lurie Garden is actually a green […]
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While I fully intend to do a season-end review of the different vegetables I’ve grown, I just can’t wait that long to tell you about the most amazing honeydew melon! The cultivar name is ‘Ha Ogen’ and I purchased the seeds from Botanical Interests. In the past, I’ve grown a lovely honeydew melon that’s called ‘Arava’, and it came from […]
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I was in Chicago last week for a conference hosted by the Association for Garden Communicators. Chicago is an amazing place with so many green spaces and gardens to enjoy. One of the gardens we visited is the Chicago Botanic Garden. For my column today, I decided to write about their Buehler Enabling Garden because there were so many usable ideas […]
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