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For the past year, the events calendar on this website has been looking pretty pathetic. That’s because nearly every event has had to be canceled, courtesy of the pandemic. Well, things are looking up because there’s a great line-up of Spring Gardening Classes that will be put on by the Spokane County Master Gardeners! Hooray! Each class will be held […]
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Well, I have some very cool news to share with you! As you know, I have a new book coming out in April, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. I will be chatting with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening fame on his daily podcasts all week long! There will be seven podcasts in all, starting tomorrow and going through next Sunday, […]
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For the last month or so, I’ve been able to give you tiny peeks into my new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. Your response has been so upbeat and heartwarming. Well, I can finally show you exactly what’s in my book and I have a special announcement about it, too! In my newest video (at bottom of post), I […]
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Are you a gardener? Do you have gardeners on your holiday shopping list? This year, a perfect way to embrace the “Green Friday” movement is by pre-ordering my new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook! What’s Green Friday, you ask? It’s an anti-Black Friday movement in which proponents suggest making mindful purchases that are kinder to the environment. So, instead […]
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And now for something completely different! For my garden column today, I decided to write about my new hobby of backyard mothing. Chances are, you’ve never heard of this before and, if it makes you feel any better, I hadn’t either up until a few months ago. You can read about it in The Spokesman-Review: Susan Mulvihill gets trapped by […]
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I have exciting news to share with you! I have written a new book, The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which will be published by Cool Springs Press in April 2021. It’s been hard keeping this a secret but now that it’s up on Amazon (*) for pre-orders, I can finally spill the beans. Do you deal with insects in your […]
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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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Since there are a lot of brand-new vegetable gardeners out there this year, I thought it would be helpful to write a garden column about insects you might find in the vegetable garden and how to deal with them organically. You can read it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Bugs with benefits. In it, I discuss beneficial insects, aphids, […]
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You might recall that Bill and I created a pollinator garden last spring. What an adventure it has been! That’s the topic of this week’s garden column, which you can read in The Spokesman-Review: Pollinator project comes with lots of unexpected learning opportunities. In it, I discuss how the plants are growing and the many things I’ve learned from it. […]
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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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