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When you live in a climate with cold winters, it’s pretty darned tricky growing veggies year round. If you’ve been following me, you know I grow some very cold-tolerant vegetable crops in a hoop house during the winter months. But this winter, I’m also trying something for the first time: growing microgreens! You’ve probably heard of folks sprouting seeds, where […]
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This is my 4th year of growing cold-tolerant veggies during the fall and winter months. As many of you know, my winter garden is growing inside a small hoop house that my husband, Bill, and I built a few years ago. Now it’s time for the first update since I planted it: Overall, the plants are growing well despite the […]
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How do you feel about slugs? If you just shuddered and if your blood pressure just went up a few notches, you and I are on the same page! I despise slugs because they seem to want to eat the very same veggies that I love to grow and eat. Yet they can be tricky to control, especially organically. That […]
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I love learning new things, but I’m not so happy to learn this little tidbit: pillbugs aren’t quite as benevolent as they’d like us to believe. Darn. For years, I’ve known that pillbugs are benign critters that primarily feed on decomposing organic matter. So they play a useful role in building soil fertility. However, I now know there’s a Dr. […]
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Now that we’re into the month of March, this seems like the perfect time to do a wrap-up on growing vegetables through the winter. This was my 3rd winter of attempting to grow salad greens through our chilly zone 4b/5a winters and I’m happy to report it was my best ever! Hooray! As a quick recap, my husband and I […]
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Dear gardening friends, I am so grateful to you for your support and enthusiasm. I thought you might like to take a peek into my garden so you can see where all of my post material comes from! I live on five acres in Spokane County. My husband and I have lived here for nearly 26 years ago, which I […]
Read moreThe following links will go to my videos on my YouTube channel. The most recent videos are at the top of the list. (2024) #19: How to Plant Containers (2024) #13: Gardening Sun Protection (2024) #12: Prune Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Blueberries (2024) #8: Soil and Composting Basics (2023) #42: Late-Season Garden Tasks (2023) #40: Susan’s Quilt Show (2023) #37: Fall […]
Read moreAs 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 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 […]
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