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As you have no doubt heard me say, I love growing veggies through the winter months in our cold climate! I live in Spokane, Wash., in USDA zone 4b/5. It gets very cold here each winter. I found I was really missing having fresh salad greens so I began researching and experimenting with doing this. And, of course, as a gardener, […]
Read moreThe summer hoop house Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Hoop house gets year-round use. Or you can read my column below. You’ll recall that my husband, Bill, and I built a small hoop house in our garden last fall. It’s for growing some salad greens through the fall and winter months. Well, […]
Read moreThis shows the winter garden hoop house we were building last fall. Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Never too early to start planning for fall. Even though it has been incredibly hot lately, the focus of my column is on getting your fall and winter garden under way. You’ll probably recall that […]
Read moreThis is a quick update to let you know that Bill and I installed a second door in our hoop house. Our goal was to provide better cross-ventilation. The new door frame is directly across from the original door. It was getting mighty toasty in the hoop house although the plants didn’t seem stressed. I wanted to make sure bees […]
Read moreYou’ll recall that my husband, Bill, and I built a small hoop house last October. We wanted to grow veggies through the winter months. Well, there’s no point in not using it year-round, right? My plan has been to grow warm-season crops in it during the main growing season. I want to see if they will grow more vigorously and […]
Read moreThis shows the hoop house in its new location. You might recall that my husband Bill and I built a hoop house last October. A hoop house is a plastic-covered greenhouse, which we’re primarily using to grow cold-tolerant vegetables through the winter in. Ours is 10 feet wide by 9 feet long and it fits over two of our raised […]
Read moreI wanted to let you know about a few modifications we’ve made to our hoop house. My husband, Bill, and I felt it needed to be a bit more “buttoned-up” for the winter. Here’s what we’ve done: 1) We purchased a 4-inch-wide roll of greenhouse repair tape from FarmTek. We built the front and back walls of the hoop house […]
Read moreMy husband, Bill, and I just finished building a hoop house in our vegetable garden. Our goal is to grow veggies through the fall and winter months. A hoop house is a greenhouse that is covered with plastic rather than glass or polycarbonate panels. We wanted to create a structure that would cover two of our 3’ x 8’ raised […]
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This photo shows the 4 metal trellises attached to the cattle panel. Here is a link to my column about trellises in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Trellises transform look of fence. Or you can read my column below. I hope you’ll enjoy this one because it was a bit of a departure for me. It’s all about a fence […]
Read moreI love seeing things like this during the winter months. These photos were taken from my upstairs office window, looking down towards our side yard. What you’re looking at are deer tracks coming from our unfenced front yard towards our backyard. As you can see, the tracks do a brief meander before the deer decided to do a U-turn (see lower […]
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