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Can you believe it’s time for another cooking video? This time, I show you how to make a hearty, vegetarian stew. It’s super easy and features winter squash, onions, garlic, potatoes, and green beans from my garden harvest this year! This is my 4th video on tasty things to make with the vegetables you grew in your garden. I’ll bet […]
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Do you know how to roast beets? That’s the topic in my newest video on what to do with your garden harvest. My goal is for you to thoroughly enjoy the delicious vegetables you’ve grown! Roast beets are so delicious and one of my favorite fall and wintertime treats. I’ll show you how easy it is to roast them and […]
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Hi, everybody! I’ve got a new video that demonstrates how to roast winter squash. It is so easy and the results are amazing. This video is the second in my new series where I show you how to use the wonderful vegetables that you grew in your garden. In the video, I mentioned the varieties of winter squash that I […]
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I have a new video and this time it’s about food! In it, you’ll learn how to make soup stock from the vegetables you grew this year. You’ll discover it’s easier than you thought. And the best part is it tastes so much better than what you can buy in the store. I hope to shoot videos every now and […]
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Hey, everybody, I’ve got a new video! This one is about how to harvest leeks, recipes for cooking with them, and how to store them. You really get your money’s worth when you grow leeks. That’s because you can eat the majority of their stalk. This is the third year I’ve grown ‘Bulgarian Giant’ leeks. The seeds came from Baker […]
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It’s time for one of those seasonal milestones because day because my final garden column for the 2021 growing season runs today. It’s about fall garden tasks. You can read my column underneath the video below. What kind of fall garden tasks am I referring to? How about overwintering annual geraniums (Pelargoniums) and canna lilies? Leaving seed heads for birds […]
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What a growing season! This was a tough one here in Spokane, Wash., and it provided plenty of garden lessons for me. I guess that’s the great thing about gardening: you’re always learning new things, right? That’s the topic for today’s garden column. In it, I discuss the many garden lessons I learned, including ones I thought I’d already learned […]
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As most of you already know, it was a tough summer for most garden plants here in Spokane, Wash. Yet the big surprise for me was how well our annual flowers performed under such adverse conditions. That’s the topic for my garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Flowers that can stand the heat and […]
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Remember how I grew dahlias this year, for the first time in ages? Since our growing season is coming to a rapid close, a column about how to overwinter dahlia tubers should be helpful. You can read my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Dahlias worth the extra effort needed to overwinter tubers. (or you can read the text […]
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If you just groaned when you read the title of this post, I completely understand! Dealing with flea beetles in the garden is extremely challenging. That’s why I’ve focused on them for today’s column. You can read it online in The Spokesman-Review: Flea beetles are a recent problem for area gardeners. (or you can start reading it underneath my video […]
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