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Are you a gardener? Do you have gardeners on your holiday shopping list? This year, a perfect way to embrace the “Green Friday” movement is by pre-ordering my new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook! What’s Green Friday, you ask? It’s an anti-Black Friday movement in which proponents suggest making mindful purchases that are kinder to the environment. So, instead […]
Read moreIt’s time for my next video and boy was it chilly while I was filming it! I thought it’d be good to give you a garden update showing what’s happening in our veggie garden, a composting experiment I’m doing in one of the beds, how the plants in our little hoop house are coming along, a recommendation of own-root (non-grafted) […]
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This year, I grew something new: Autumn Frost winter squash. I’m very impressed with it. It’s essentially a mini butternut squash. Since I’m just cooking for the two of us, I was attracted to the idea of a more manageable size squash. In the past, I’ve cooked some whopper butternuts so this was a nice change. I got the ‘Autumn […]
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Well, that was different! My goal was to create a video on how to harvest root crops. Sometimes it’s a breeze to shoot my videos. Other times, Mother Nature throws everything she can at me just to remind me who’s in charge. I ended up shooting this video over the course of 6 days. That’s because of a freak snowstorm […]
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As you know, I’m on my annual break from writing garden columns. But I’m continuing to shoot a new video each week and also will be blogging during the week as time permits. My newest video is about garden tasks to tackle in October… at least in my zone 5b garden, that is. For all I know, you’re enjoying deliciously […]
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At the risk of seeming redundant, I need to write one more post about how to keep cucumbers fresh. Why? Here’s the deal: On Oct. 8, I wrote a Facebook post in which I shared a tip I’d learned. In the past, whenever I harvested cucumbers, they would turn soft or shrivel up so quickly. I recently did a web […]
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Holy cow! A few days ago, I wrote a Facebook post about a new tip. It was about how to store  cucumbers so they stay fresh. Little did I realize how many folks would find this tip so useful! As I write this, 7 MILLION people have seen the post! There have been 17,000 comments and an astounding 82,000 shares! […]
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If you’re thinking your garden season is just about over, hold on! Fall is the time to plant garlic . You don’t want to miss out on growing this amazing member of the onion family. That’s the topic of my garden column today, which you can read below. In my column, I explain the difference between hardneck and softneck garlic. […]
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I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. The one good thing about the pandemic has been the surge of interest in growing vegetables. Thank heavens for a silver lining, right? In my garden column today, I write about the challenges new gardeners have faced this year. You can read about this in The Spokesman-Review: New vegetable gardeners share triumphs […]
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Homemade salsa made with a whole lot of goodness from your garden is the BEST. Am I right? I’ve had a lot of requests for the salsa recipe that Bill and I make. We’ve been perfecting it over the past couple of summers and think we’ve finally nailed it! Use a food processor to shorten the amount of preparation time […]
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