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This 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 […]
Read moreThis is just a quick update to let you know that my husband, Bill, and I installed a second door in our hoop house 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 — and I wanted to […]
Read moreYou’ll recall that my husband, Bill, and I built a small hoop house last Oct. for the purpose of growing 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 to see if they will grow more vigorously and be […]
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 in the past few days. 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. You’ll recall from my original post […]
Read moreMy husband, Bill, and I just finished building a hoop house in our vegetable garden so we can 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. The goal was to create a structure that would cover two of our 3’ x 8’ raised […]
Read moreThis shows the 4 metal trellises attached to the cattle panel. Here is a link to my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Trellises transform look of fence. I hope you’ll enjoy this one because it was a bit of a departure for me. It’s all about a fence idea I got from local gardener Julie Nesbitt, who shared […]
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 […]
Read moreWhile I was on the Spokane in Bloom garden tour a couple of weekends ago, I saw some clever ideas that I wanted to share with you. The first idea was rose arbors that had been anchored inside of raised beds (see top photo). As you can see, they were just gorgeous and very popular with garden visitors that day. It […]
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