Share my passion for all things gardening!
I’ve been very excited to shoot this week’s video because it’s a topic near and dear to my heart. My lifelong goal has been to help you grow bountiful vegetable gardens. In the video, you’ll learn my most important tips for garden success. If you’re curious about the photo to the left, that is a ‘Sweet Jade’ Kabocha winter squash. […]
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Dealing with weeds in your garden isn’t a whole lot of fun, is it? I think we all have our most dreaded weeds that are a nightmare to control. So for this week’s garden column, I wrote about why it’s important to keep up with them as well as the things we gardeners can do to reduce this odious task. […]
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Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Gardener by Jessica Walliser (Storey Publishing, 2020, 206 pp., $24.95) by Susan Mulvihill Many gardeners are familiar with the concept of companion planting: some plant combinations promote better growth and production while others inhibit these desirable outcomes. Or do they? A long time ago, I read Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise […]
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In today’s garden column, I talk about organic gardening. This is something that is very easy to do by using good cultural practices. Here is a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Investigate different ways to control pests. By the way, I hope you’re not getting tired of hearing about floating row cover! I think it is such a great […]
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When I conducted my reader survey recently, I saw a recurring response to my question about your biggest challenges: dealing with weeds! There were other challenges mentioned, too, but we’ll get to those another time. Last year, I wrote a garden column on strategies for both dealing with weeds and preventing weeds from growing in the first place. Here is […]
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Don’t we all hate weeds? After all, they get in the way of the lovely plants we’ve placed in our gardens on purpose. I recently had a request to share some of my weed strategies, so have written a column on that very subject. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Best weeding tools are your […]
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