New product: Plant Picket garden markers

While checking out the marketplace at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show last week, I came across these eye-catching row markers. Aren’t they cute as can be? These are Plant Picket decorative garden markers from PlantPicket.com and they were designed by owner Jed Darland. He’s created markers for vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits and berries. In addition, there are markers sporting bugs, […]

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Starting Tomatoes from Seed

Epic Tomatoes

If you live in a northern climate, I hope you haven’t planted your tomatoes from seed yet! Yes, it’s easy to get excited but it’s still too early. I used to start my tomato seeds indoors in early February. I figured the plants need to be large and robust before planting them out into the garden in mid-May. I quickly […]

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Sept. 6 column: Saving seeds

Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Saving seeds an easy way to save money. This one is about a topic I’m very excited about: saving seeds. It’s a valuable skills all gardeners should have although I’m embarrassed to say it’s not something I’ve had much experience in. Fortunately, I’ve gone to a class […]

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April 5 column: Heirloom vegetables

Melon – Eden Gem Happy Easter, everybody! Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Heirloom seeds bear benefits of history. This one is all about heirloom vegetables and why heirlooms are so vital to both our heritage and the diversity we should have in our gardens. I hope you will find it interesting and […]

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March 8 column: Annual flowers

Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Annual varieties add floral pop. Just as I did a column last week on the newest veggie varieties, I talk about the newest annual flowers for 2015 in today’s column. After all, I didn’t want to neglect my fellow flower-lovers out there! If you live in the Spokane […]

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Mar. 1 column: Newest vegetable varieties for 2015

‘Ruby Glow’ romaine lettuce, one of the newest vegetable varieties, adds pizzazz to any salad. Photo courtesy of Rob Cardillo, cooksgarden.com. Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Seed catalogs offer veggie, fruit varieties. This column highlights some of the most interesting new vegetable varieties for this year. *** As promised in my column, […]

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