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Starting veggies early is the topic for this week’s garden column and video. I’ve decided to push the envelope by planting lettuce waaaaay earlier than usual this year and, to make matters worse (although I hope not!), I am encouraging you to try this, too. Here’s the link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Get a jumpstart […]
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It’s time for my second garden column of the 2021 growing season. Since I want you to have the best success possible, the topic is choosing your vegetable garden site. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Follow the sun to find the right place to plant your garden. (you can also read the text of […]
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Well, today is a milestone! My first garden column, which is essentially a season introduction, is running in The Spokesman-Review newspaper here in Spokane, Wash. Here’s a link to it: Look to the past before plowing into the future. You can also read the text of my column at the bottom of this post: it won’t be as pretty as […]
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Yup, my newest video is on seed starting… again! There’s so much information that I’ve been wanting to share with you. That means I needed to shoot a third video on this very important topic. In this video, I share information on seed treatments ( vernalization, stratification, and scarification). This will help you grow things like artichokes or New Zealand […]
Read moreLast week, I shot a very detailed video on Seed Starting Basics. Ordinarily my videos aren’t so long but there was just so much information to share with you! This time, my second video is a more manageable length of about 10 minutes. For this video, I wanted to follow up with you on how some of the seeds I […]
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It’s time to talk about seed starting basics! I know that beginning and seasoned gardeners alike want to hit the ground running. That way, they’re ready for this year’s growing season so that’s the topic for this week’s video. I should to warn you in advance that it’s longer than most of my videos. Seed starting is such a useful […]
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Do you know how to grow microgreens? Or, perhaps I should ask first, do you know what microgreens are? Both are the topic of my newest video, which you can view below. To grow microgreens, you thickly sow seeds (usually vegetable or herb seeds) and harvest the young seedlings when they’re quite young. What’s the point? The goal is to […]
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It’s so nice that we can be talking about planting seeds again, isn’t it? If you’re thinking, “but it’s way too early!,” I’m talking about the winter sowing method. That’s involves planting seeds in containers and putting them outside. Then the seeds germinate when the time is right. And that is the topic of my newest video. I tried the […]
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As many of you know, I’m an avid birdwatcher. Here in our Spokane, Wash. garden, we get nearly 100 different species of birds which is such a treat. I’d have to say that chickadees are my favorites. I thought you might enjoy this short video showing me hand-feeding chickadees. We get both black-capped and mountain chickadees. They are incredibly bold […]
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Are you really getting excited for this year’s garden? After being urged to share what I’m growing in our vegetable garden this year, I decided to devote this video to my 2021 seed choices. In it, I’ll share the specific varieties of what I’ll be growing as well as the reasons I chose them. Many are varieties I grew last […]
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