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I’ve got a new video for you! Since I’m not really doing any gardening this time of year, I thought it would be fun to share my tips on how to attract birds to your garden year-round. Bill and I are avid birdwatchers and have really focused on making our landscape bird-friendly. The video also includes a slideshow of most […]
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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. You’ll see me bringing delicate garden art and glass rain gauges indoors so they won’t break from the […]
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There are a lot of different types of garden tasks that we should be doing, now that we’re heading into fall. And that is the topic for this week’s video! In it, I cover both vegetable garden and ornamental garden projects you’ll want to take care of. These include harvesting green tomatoes before you get a frost, the timing on […]
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I suppose the title to today’s post might shock you because you probably know I’m an avid birdwatcher. But I take issue when birds think it’s perfectly fine to take bites out of our cherries, raspberries, and blueberries. How can Bill and I thwart the birds but still be on a friendly basis with them? Well, that’s exactly what you’ll […]
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Did the topic for this week’s garden column make your blood pressure rise? I think that’s a common reaction when it comes to dealing with critters in the garden! You might be waging a war with deer, gophers, squirrels, rabbits – you name it. In my column, I discuss the importance of identifying who your nemesis is first because that […]
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I had a lot of fun shooting this week’s video because I think it will be really helpful. The topic is vegetable garden tips and in it, I cover the importance of monitoring your garden regularly, why you should keep up with the weeds in your garden, thinning seedlings so they have enough space to grow, mulching potatoes, and so […]
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I decided to do something a little different for this week’s video. The focus is on our ornamental spring garden because it’s so wonderful to watch it come back to life. I guess really long, tough winters increase our appreciation, right? In this video, you’ll see flowering bulbs, perennials that are just getting ready to bloom, along with flowering trees […]
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It’s time for my next video and this one is especially important. That’s because it’s about the types of plants we’re growing to feed birds in winter. We live in Spokane, Wash. which is hardiness zone 5b. That means we get some mighty cold and long winters. Since Bill and I love watching the birds that visit us throughout the […]
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Bill and I are avid birdwatchers. We’ve created a landscape that attracts them and makes them feel safe. We love listening to them, admiring how beautiful they are, and watching them raise their young. For the most part, we recognize the birds that come here but sometimes we need a little help with bird identification. For this week’s column, I […]
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As you probably already know, I’m a huge fan of using row covers in my garden. This includes floating row cover, bridal veil netting, shade cloth and bird netting. That is the topic of this week’s garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Covers help keep vegetable crops happy and healthy. (or you can read […]
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