March 17 Column: Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium

After the lengthy winter we’ve been experiencing, we Spokane-area gardeners can celebrate the arrival of spring by attending this year’s Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium. That is the subject of this week’s garden column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium offers gardeners a chance to dig into learning.

This annual event combines learning opportunities, lunch, vendors, door prizes, a chance to visit with other enthusiastic gardeners and a fun day overall.

The Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium will take place on Saturday, March 30 at CenterPlace in Spokane Valley from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. More details can be found on the Master Gardener Foundation of Spokane County’s website.

Here’s how it works: you can sign up for 4 classes out of 12 different offerings and it includes lunch! The deadline for signing up for it is this Friday, March 22.

For my video this week, I had to once again shoot it indoors on an indoor topic. Fortunately, many of you came to the rescue when I asked for suggestions on my Facebook page. Thank you! I had multiple requests about what I’m growing this year, what we use our greenhouse for, and which seeds can be started now.

So here’s the resulting video:

In the video, I mentioned our capillary mat set-up in our little greenhouse. You can see the specifics of it in this blog post from a few years ago. I hope you found the video helpful and got a chuckle out of my goofy ending!

Let’s hope I can do my next video outdoors! Fortunately, we have quite a warm-up coming so I feel encouraged.