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It has been so gratifying to witness the surge of interest in growing a vegetable garden this year — truly the bright spot in this COVID-19 situation. But along with those veggies, why not also grow an herb garden? That’s the topic for my garden column today. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Spice up your garden with […]
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This week’s garden column is about growing vegetables in containers. Even if you don’t have an actual spot for a garden, or have no yard at all, you can still grow veggies. The solution? Plant them in pots! Here’s a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Expand your harvest options with container gardening. One thing I […]
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If you love growing tomatoes or are preparing to grow them for the first time ever, you’ll be happy to see that my column is about how to grow tomatoes. I mean, we all love the taste of a sun-ripened tomato, right? Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: The best-tasting tomatoes are grown at home. […]
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Do you grow Cucurbit family crops? I’m talking about cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and summer or winter squash. They really are one of the workhorses of the garden and are the focus of this week’s column: Warm season crops as cool as a cucumber. I love all of these crops, from the fresh taste of cucumbers, the succulence of homegrown melons […]
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Since we’ve got so many new gardeners out there, I am continuing to write about how to grow all sorts of vegetable crops. This week’s column is about how to grow onions and you can find it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: How to grow onions. Onions are quite easy to grow and can be started from seed, little […]
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Since there has been so much interest in growing vegetables this year, I’ve been focusing my columns on that topic. Today’s column is about how easy it is to grow beet family crops. Here’s a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Grow beet family crops, and cover them to keep pests away. Members of the beet family include beets (big […]
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With all of the depressing news these days, who would have thought that something positive would brighten things up? That’s the topic of this week’s garden column, which is about the unexpected consequences of having to cut down a few trees at the edge of our vegetable garden. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Planting […]
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For this week’s column, I wrote about how to grow cabbage family crops. This includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, radishes and rutabagas, just for starters. Here is link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Netting helps keep pests away from cabbage family crops. My current favorite to grow is broccoli. I mean, you just can’t […]
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Plant Parenting: Easy Ways to Make More Houseplants, Vegetables, and Flowers by Leslie F. Halleck (Timber Press, 256 pp., 2019, $24.95) How are your plant propagation skills? If you’re like me, you’re probably pretty decent at starting plants from seed but maybe not so great at taking cuttings to propagate plants. I first heard about Leslie Halleck’s new book, Plant […]
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This is the time of here when a gardener’s mind turns to all of the spring pruning chores that need to be tackled. Feeling overwhelmed or confused? No worries, it’s Susan’s in the Garden to the rescue! Last year, I shot a bunch of spring pruning videos in order to provide you with the rationale and timing for pruning raspberry […]
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