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I’ve been growing celery for several years now and just love how flavorful it is. The only down side is that there’s always more than we can keep up with but we certainly don’t to waste it. What’s the answer? Preserving it, of course! Today, I’m going to show you how to freeze celery. If you’re wondering why you’d want […]
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This summer, I’ve been taking you along on a vegetable garden tour about every 3 weeks. I can scarcely believe we’re at the end of August already, but I think you’ll see some changes in my garden for this 4th tour: With September just around the corner, I’m really starting to focus on harvesting as many crops in the next couple […]
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Every year, we grow a nice patch of Swiss chard because we love how tasty it is and how it doesn’t bolt to seed in the heat like spinach can. But there’s always more than we can eat at any given time. Bill and I have come up with a great method for preserving it, so I wanted to show […]
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Even though I recently wrote a column about the top 5 damaging insects and how to deal with them organically, I decided to write today’s column about the importance of insect ID. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Season’s pests may surprise you. If you want to successfully deal with problems in your garden, it is critical that […]
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Do you ever get tired of the amount of water and time it takes to maintain your lawn? Consider growing a vegetable garden there instead! Front yard vegetable gardens are the topic of my garden column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review. Here’s a link to it: Forget lush lawns — fruits and veggies are this gardener’s growing passion. For this […]
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Hi, everyone. This year, I’ve been filming a vegetable garden tour about every 3 weeks so you can see how things are growing. I hope you’ve been enjoying these videos. I’m always amazed by the transformation that takes place in a garden each growing season. Plants that were puny in early spring are suddenly thriving and bearing fruit. Little problems […]
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When I wrote my Sunday column to update you on how my vegetable garden is doing, I mentioned how I’ve learned firsthand just how important sunlight is for plant growth. (If you missed my column, here’s a link to it: Wacky weather confusing to vegetable crops.) On the south end of our garden, we have (3) 4′ wide by 16′ […]
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I can’t believe how quickly this summer is zipping by! Since it’s Sunday, it’s time for another of my garden columns, and this one is a vegetable garden update: Wacky weather causing confusion for crops. In it, I discuss how most of the veggies are growing. In general, everything is doing well. The artichokes are finally putting on new growth […]
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This is a common question I hear as a Master Gardener each year. A gardener will discover small zucchinis on their plants and excitedly start looking at recipes to use for their coming garden bounty. But then, the worst thing happens: those little zucchinis fall off the plant and shrivel up. What the hey? Well, you can usually blame one […]
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About 3 weeks ago, I took you on a tour of my vegetable garden. Now that we’re at the end of June, I thought you might like to see how it’s coming along so here is the “official” vegetable garden tour #2! I wanted to make a correction on something I said in my video. When I talked about the […]
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