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Is it spring yet?
It must be getting close because it is seed catalog season in a HUGE WAY! All of us here at GA have received dozens of catalogs from businesses selling their seeds, bulbs and gardening supplies.
And it’s got me pumped up for spring!
Over the last couple weekends, I’ve been clearing out the vegetable beds and laying […]
Posted by Les on January 31st, 2008 under Garden Planning, Year-Round Gardening | 1 Comment »Time to plant Garlic!
The hardest part about planting garlic is picking a place to put in next years garlic, oh and also finding a day that its not pouring down rain and not too cold that you can stand to be outside planting.
Garlic is a bulb and is planted in the fall. These will start to grow […]
Fall Carrots / Plantings
Today I planted some fall vegetables. All except the carrots are the same spring variety’s I planted earlier this year. I did plant two types of spinach earlier in the year but today I just went for the 45 day variety. Hoping to get it in and up and harvested in this […]
Posted by Valria on September 8th, 2007 under Garden Planning, Harvest & Succession Planting, Year-Round Gardening | Comment now »Garden is in
Everything is in…….well everything so far. There will be re-planting of course and there will be fall crops but for now the veggies are all in.
I even made room for snack jack pumpkins. Which when I got the seeds I thought, oh they are just 1-2 pound pumpkins, small enough, good for […]
Month of June: What to plant in the Pacific Northwest
Entire Month: Sow cucumbers, summer squash, melons, snaps beans, beets, carrots, lettuce, broccoli, fall and winter cabbage, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, scallions, dill, slo-bolt cilantro
15th and beyond: Transplant peppers and eggplant
FYI… If you already planted your peppers or eggplants outside under a cloche or cold frame, you’ll want to start paying close attention to the daytime […]
Keep those Tomatoes warm….
or at least the ground your planting them in.
Get two gardeners in a room and you have two different views on growing tomatoes. So here are my basic rules.
Some basic tips for tomatoes, as stated in Boe’s article, choose varieties suited for growth in your zone and that are designed for your geographic local.
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Evolution of a plan…
The best laid plans of…something, something, something..
I don’t think it really went awry, just different. Again, I’m reminded of the importance of being okay with change, and that no matter how much I plan, and study, and work the puzzle of companion planting, sometimes nature just changes the design without your consent.
The garden as it […]
Posted by Les on May 9th, 2007 under Garden Planning, Garden Maintenance | 1 Comment »Tomato jargon
Determinate… indeterminate… what?
It’s nearing time to plant tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest, and these are two terms I almost always forget: determinate and indeterminate.
A determinate tomato plant is generally more compact (like the “bush” varieties), and the fruits ripen more closely together. An indeterminate tomato plant continues to grow throughout the season (the “vine” […]
In or around Seattle? Get your plants this weekend!
Don’t forget about the Seattle Tilth plant sale taking place this Saturday and Sunday (May 5th and 6th) in Wallingford.
For more information, click here and here.
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Its time to plant
So much of the spring is used for planning and getting ready.
The daydream of my summer garden starts about an hour after the superbowl.
That is about when I ordered all of these seeds for this years garden, clearly assuming I have a much bigger garden then I have.
Then as the weather allows the readying of […]
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