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For this week’s garden column, I wrote about our adventures in growing figs. Yes, figs in our zone 5b garden! You can read it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: With figs, it’s best to contain your excitement. Mind you, it’s not like we’ve had a whole lot of success but we’re feeling hopeful that we will actually get some […]
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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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I get a lot of questions about when to prune lavender back. The best answer is “now!” So I wanted to let you know that I just shot a new video on the topic. And the ever elusive Mr. Bill (a.k.a. “Mr. Pepper”) puts in a guest appearance while demonstrating his cool tool for trimming back the plants! You won’t […]
Read moreThere is an event coming up in the spring that you need to know about: the Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium, which is put on by the Spokane County Master Gardeners and Master Gardener Foundation of Spokane County. Why do you need to know about something that won’t take place until March 21? Because tickets for it sell out quickly and […]
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Ooh, who loves a plant sale?! I sure do and it’s exciting to think that two awesome sales will be held next weekend, here in Spokane. You can read about them in my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/apr/20/in-the-garden-local-plant-sales-mean-spring-has-sp/. The first sale is the Garden Fair & Plant Sale, put on by the Spokane County Master Gardeners. It will […]
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Oh, how I love blueberries! They are so simple to grow and provide us with plenty of berries for eating fresh, supplementing our morning yogurt or oatmeal, adding to baked goodies, and even for making something as fancy as a blueberry-balsamic reduction for salmon (one of Bill’s specialties). So it makes sense that this week’s column is all about how […]
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Many years ago, my husband Bill and I planted a huge (300+ plants) patch of lavender. We always used to trim them back at the end of the garden season but now I’m going to give you a very good reason to prune lavender plants in late winter or early spring! A few winters ago, when we went outside for […]
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If you’ve been following my videos about ways to ripen green tomatoes before the end of the season, you know there are three steps to it. Just today, I released the third in my series of videos on what needs to be done in early September. In order to keep those three videos together, I decided to embed them all […]
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Chances are, you’ve seen them everywhere and their beauty takes your breath away. I’m talking about orchids. If you would like to see hundreds of them, be sure to visit the Spokane Orchid Society’s Orchid Show & Sale. It will be held in the Spokane Community College Lair on Apr. 7 and 8. That’s the topic of my garden column […]
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‘Tis the season for pruning, right? Well, before you dive into it, I thought it would help to discuss some pruning basics first. For my column, I interviewed Tim Kohlhauff (seen at left), the Urban Horticulture Coordinator for Spokane County Extension. Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Pruning correctly helps keep trees and […]
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