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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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The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide* by Jenny Rose Carey (Timber Press, 2022, 288 pp., $29.95) by Susan Mulvihill Flowers add so much color, interest and dimension to a garden. We fall in love with the ones we’ve seen in public and private gardens. But we often don’t realize the flowers might not be a good match for our conditions. We […]
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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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I’ve got a brand-new video for you! The title is “Garden Clean-up & Update” and I wanted to share a lot of things that have changed in our veggie garden since you last saw it. As I’ve mentioned, Bill and I were out of town for 9 days, and even though we didn’t get any frosts while we were gone, […]
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I know we gardeners don’t want to think about the end of the growing season yet, but it’s important to plan ahead. For today’s garden column, I decided to write about overwintering geraniums. This is something that is so easy and it’s a great way to save money. You can read my column in The Spokesman-Review: Don’t toss those geraniums […]
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I’ve been looking forward to writing this column for quite a while! How would you like to create your very own scented garden, filled with wonderful fragrances throughout the growing season? That has sounded pretty good to me! In my column, I look at the various components for a scented garden and make lots of suggestions. I’m hoping you’ll find […]
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For this week’s column, I detailed how to grow vegetables in containers. I realize that some folks are very limited in space or they live in an apartment or condo. Container vegetables to the rescue! You can read my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: No space? No problem, as many vegetables can be grown in containers. Or you […]
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I am so excited that spring has officially started today! Are you thinking about planting lots of flowers in your yard? Well, growing annual flowers is the topic for my garden column. I’m sure we’re all yearning to see lots of color again, right? You can read my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Whether it’s sunny or shady, […]
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It’s time for one of those seasonal milestones because day because my final garden column for the 2021 growing season runs today. It’s about fall garden tasks. You can read my column underneath the video below. What kind of fall garden tasks am I referring to? How about overwintering annual geraniums (Pelargoniums) and canna lilies? Leaving seed heads for birds […]
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As most of you already know, it was a tough summer for most garden plants here in Spokane, Wash. Yet the big surprise for me was how well our annual flowers performed under such adverse conditions. That’s the topic for my garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Flowers that can stand the heat and […]
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