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Do you get cold easily? Do you dread having to do projects or tasks outside during the fall and winter months? Well, a heated vest might be just what you need. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism many years ago. Even though it’s manageable with medication, I’m always cold. Whether I’m indoors or outdoors, I’ve always had to put on a […]
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On May 25, I posted a short video about the masses of aphids on a lupine plant. At the time, I told folks not to worry because the beneficial insects would soon come to the rescue. Boy, was I wrong! Take a close look at the photo to the left. All of those tiny things are aphids! Yikes. Many gardeners […]
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When the weather gets colder in the fall, it’s easy to think the garden season is over and you can head indoors. Not so fast! In this week’s video, I take you along while I handle some important late season garden tasks. I’ll be bringing delicate garden art and glass rain gauges indoors so they won’t break from the freeze-thaw […]
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Surprise! Today is the day my garden columns for The Spokesman-Review begin! This first one is essentially the garden season opener. In it, I discuss some of the challenging weather we encountered last year and through this winter. That leads into some tips on what we gardeners can do to help our vegetable plants perform better. And, of course, it […]
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We’ve been having some wild, wintry weather since early November and it technically isn’t even winter yet! That got me to thinking about how beautiful the snow is. I grew up in Southern California so the “white stuff” has been a bit of a novelty for me. While some residents grumble about the snow, we are like little kids! For […]
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It’s time for my next video but it didn’t end up going the way I had planned! I had intended to talk about and demonstrate fall cleanup tasks. Apparently, Mother Nature had other plans. Bill and I were down in California for a weeklong family visit. The weather was lovely there for the most part. However, when I checked on […]
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Whew! What a weird growing season this has been. First, we started out with an extremely cold, wet spring which dragged on and on. Then the hot weather arrived. Tomatoes seemed to be the crop that was impacted the most so I thought I’d share this year’s tomato growing lessons with you. The most common email topic I received this […]
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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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This week’s video might seem a little off-topic for a gardening website. But I wanted to share our beautiful skies with you! For the past year, we have seen so many gorgeous sunrises and sunsets. And the cloud patterns I’ve been watching are so captivating. My husband and I feel so fortunate to live in such a wonderful location. We’re […]
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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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