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Earlier today, I posted a couple of photos of my husband Bill with one of his many pepper harvests. Folks are going wild over this and, of course, everyone wants to know what his secret is for growing peppers so successfully. In 2020, I wrote a garden column about it that I thought you might enjoy reading, just in case […]
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Even though Bill and I live in hardiness zone 5b, I don’t consider the garden season finished when fall frosts arrive. I love growing cold-tolerant vegetable crops through the fall and winter months. How is this possible? You’ll find out in my next garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Now’s the time to jumpstart […]
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This is the time of year when gardeners – both beginning and experienced – can feel overwhelmed. Not with the maintenance of a vegetable garden but rather, keeping up with the garden harvest. I know that sounds weird because we gardeners are all about the harvest, right? But sometimes it gets ahead of us. That’s the topic of my garden […]
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Good grief, how can it possibly be the last day of July already?! But, as I promised last week, today’s garden column is the second half of garden tips from my Facebook followers. If you missed my July 24 column with the first half of the tips, you can find it on my blog. You can read today’s column in […]
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I know much of the U.S. has been dealing with extremely hot temperatures lately. Here in the Inland Northwest, the temperatures are heading into the low 100’s this week. What’s a gardener to do? Provide your plants with some heat protection. This morning, while it was still cool, Bill and I headed out to our vegetable garden for that very […]
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I think you’ll all agree that gardening is a learning experience. We pick up information from classes, books, friends and neighbors, and all of it increases our skills. A few weeks ago, I asked my Facebook followers if they’d like to share some of their best garden tips and share they did! For my garden column today, I included the […]
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Do you despise aphids as much as I do? I’m guessing the answer to that is a resounding “Yes!” In today’s garden column, I talk about the damage they do in our gardens – both the veggie and ornamental gardens – and methods for dealing with them, or even preventing them altogether. In addition, I share a very interesting new […]
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Book Review by Susan Mulvihill Even though I’ve been growing vegetables for many years, there’s one skill I really need to develop: succession planting. When I heard Meg McAndrews Cowden’s new book, Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, was about that very topic, I was so excited to read it, She is truly a master at this. As she writes, “Continuous planting […]
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For this week’s garden column and video, I have given an update on how our vegetable garden is doing. As you know, this has been an extremely challenging spring due to the extended period of cold, wet weather. You can read my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Vegetables getting a slow start, thanks to cool, rainy spring. Or […]
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I am really excited about this week’s garden column and accompanying video! That’s because it is my mission to explain how simple it is to make your own compost. Sometimes we overcomplicate the process and feel daunted. Well, no more because I provide the basics of what you need to know in order to be successful. You can read my […]
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