Gardening
Welcome to our little patch of gardening articles where we share tips and tricks on how you can keep your lawn and garden healthy and vibrant in the summer as well as knowing what to do in the non-growing seasons.
Bare Root Plants – Budgeting
Beginning in deepest winter, and through very early spring, while plants are safely asleep and you’re thinking the garden is off limits, signs will start popping up around town advertising ‘Bare Root’ plants. What’s that all about and why should you care? It means wholesale growers have started shipping all kinds of unpotted plants to retailers for a very small window of time. Alert gardeners can get tremendous bargains on dormant roses, vines, fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, berry canes, young shade trees, perennial vegetables...
read moreGreat Gardening Blogs
By December I find myself doing more reading about gardens than actual gardening. Often, I turn to fellow gardening bloggers for good ideas. Gardening blogs originate from all over the world and provide knowledge, fact, conjecture and inspiration from the lives and experiences of gardeners from all walks of life. Among the many, a few Seattle originals stand out. Riz’s Nextgenerationgardener.blogspot.com: I flush green with envy over Riz’s experiences seeking out rare plants. Fortunately, he not only propagates and sells rare treasures...
read moreThe Dirt on Soils
One of the most overlooked and under-tended components of many gardens is the earth in which the garden grows. However, knowing and caring for our soil and our soil ecosystems is critical to cultivating a healthy, beautiful and bountiful garden.
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