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My 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 […]
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It always seems like it takes forever for a new season to begin, doesn’t it? But it’s finally time to start growing vegetables again. Hooray! That is the topic of my newest video. In it, I’ll share our 2024 garden plan and layout, and discuss the type of soil preparation I like to use. NOTE: As a refresher on choosing […]
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When the weather gets colder in the fall, it’s easy to think the garden season is over and you can head indoors. Not so fast! In this week’s video, I take you along while I handle some important late season garden tasks. You’ll see me bringing delicate garden art and glass rain gauges indoors so they won’t break from the […]
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For this week’s video, I thought you might like a little tour of our vegetable garden. In it, I show how it’s laid out and explain how we water our raised beds. I also discuss how we use our hoop house and small greenhouse. And last but not least, you finally get to see where I’m growing my early crop […]
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It’s time for my next video but it didn’t end up going the way I had planned! I had intended to talk about and demonstrate fall cleanup tasks. Apparently, Mother Nature had other plans. Bill and I were down in California for a weeklong family visit. The weather was lovely there for the most part. However, when I checked on […]
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It’s time for my next video and this one is particularly special. Why? My awesome, helpful and creative husband, Bill, joined me for it! That’s because he was the one who thought of trying to grow sweet potatoes here in Spokane, Wash. The topic for this video is our 2022 sweet potato harvest. This was actually our second year of […]
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Earlier today, I posted a couple of photos of my husband Bill with one of his many pepper harvests. Folks are going wild over this and, of course, everyone wants to know what his secret is for growing peppers so successfully. In 2020, I wrote a garden column about it that I thought you might enjoy reading, just in case […]
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Even though Bill and I live in hardiness zone 5b, I don’t consider the garden season finished when fall frosts arrive. I love growing cold-tolerant vegetable crops through the fall and winter months. How is this possible? You’ll find out in my next garden column, which you can read in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Now’s the time to jumpstart […]
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For this week’s garden column and video, I have given an update on how our vegetable garden is doing. As you know, this has been an extremely challenging spring due to the extended period of cold, wet weather. You can read my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Vegetables getting a slow start, thanks to cool, rainy spring. Or […]
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For this week’s column, I detailed how to grow vegetables in containers. I realize that some folks are very limited in space or they live in an apartment or condo. Container vegetables to the rescue! You can read my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: No space? No problem, as many vegetables can be grown in containers. Or you […]
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