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Are you ready for my third video of the 2024 gardening season? This week’s is all about winter sowing. Some of you may be familiar with this unusual method of starting seeds. But this might be the first time many of you have heard of winter sowing. Put simply, this is a method of starting seeds outdoors during the dead […]
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If you haven’t heard of winter sowing, you are in for a treat! After all, who wouldn’t love to plant seeds right now, in the dead of winter, and pull it off?! That’s the topic of my newest video and it is the coolest thing ever… no pun intended! Winter sowing involves planting seeds outdoors in containers, usually between December […]
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Have you heard of winter sowing? It’s very popular these days but a lot of folks aren’t familiar with this unusual method for starting seeds. It involves planting seeds in containers and placing them outdoors, in the middle of winter. That sounds like a recipe for disaster, don’t you think? Well, actually, it works great so that’s the topic of […]
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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 where you plant seeds in containers such as milk jugs, put them outside, and let the seeds germinate when the time is right. And that is the topic of my […]
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What would you say if I told you it’s possible to plant specially-prepared containers with seeds and put them outside, where it’s snowy and/or rainy for the rest of the winter? That sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But winter sowing is a viable, no-fuss way to start seeds and it just happens to be the topic of this week’s video and […]
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Even though Bill and I live in hardiness zone 5b, I don’t consider the garden season finished when fall frosts arrive. I love growing cold-tolerant vegetable crops through the fall and winter months. How is this possible? You’ll find out in my next garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Now’s the time to jumpstart […]
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This is my 4th year of growing cold-tolerant veggies during the fall and winter months. As many of you know, my winter garden is growing inside a small hoop house that my husband, Bill, and I built a few years ago. Now it’s time for the first update since I planted it: Overall, the plants are growing well despite the […]
Read moreAs you have no doubt heard me say, I love growing veggies through the winter months in our cold climate! I live in Spokane, Wash., in USDA zone 4b/5. It gets very cold here each winter. I found I was really missing having fresh salad greens so I began researching and experimenting with doing this. And, of course, as a gardener, […]
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Yup, my newest video is on seed starting… again! But there’s so much information that I’ve been wanting to share with you which 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) to help you grow things like artichokes or New Zealand […]
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This year, I’ve been growing annual poppies. Oh my, they are so lovely! That’s the topic of today’s garden column, which you can read in The Spokesman-Review: Poppies are poppin’ up everywhere, add beauty to gardens. (you can read the text of the story at the bottom of this blog post if you’re unable to view it online at Spokesman.com) […]
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