March 10 Column: Raised Bed Gardening

If you’ve followed me for long, you know I am absolutely crazy about raised bed gardening! There are so many great attributes of this method of gardening, that I just had to share them in my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Raised beds offer bountiful benefits.

The beds are super easy to build. As a matter of fact, we need to replace one row of our raised beds this spring. I do plan to shoot a video next week on how to build them… well, provided the snow in my garden ever melts!

I had fully intended to make that today’s video topic but you can’t even see my garden at this point. (heavy sigh) So instead, this week’s video is on a very important topic that I had wanted to cover anyway: Seed-Starting 101. Here it is:

Back to raised beds: if you live in the Spokane area, don’t forget to attend my raised bed gardening workshop on Sat., Mar. 16 from 9 a.m. to noon. It will be held at Spokane County Extension, 222 N. Havana St. You can find more information and register here.

I hope the weather is cooperating in your neck of the woods. It’s so exciting that spring is almost here and that we are finally getting to pursue our favorite pastime, right?