Category: Garden

Spear Your Dinner! With Asparagus!

Asparagus is a member of the lily family. It grows best from crowns, though a few can grow well from the seed of open-pollinated varieties like ‘Purple Passion’ and ‘Martha Washington’.

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SCLD Bundles That Grow

Spokane County Library District (SCLD) added a new twist to the seed library program, while still allowing patrons to grow and learn about local agriculture by growing seeds adapted to our region.

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Mulching Misery

WARNING: Though mulches can dress up your yard and garden space, prevent weeds and hold moisture in the soil, some mulches on the market can actually cause harm to your plants and animals. Use caution when choosing your mulches.

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Onion Time is Now Time!

If you want BIG onions, grow from seed! Dry bulbs, sold as ‘onion bulb sets’, were last year’s onions, and they really want to focus on flowering, so getting big bulbs from them is difficult.

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Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter Cactus?

These pretty flowering cacti are tropical cactus! They grow attached to trees in the jungles of Brazil, not in deserts on the ground! So keep pots small, short, and squat rather than deep to mimic their natural growing conditions.

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Plant your Evergreens Now!

This is a great time to plant evergreen trees. Here are some quick tips to make sure you find the right trees for your property.
Size Matters
This is by far the number one mistake I see: trees planted literally 1 foot from the foundation and directly under the eaves of the house. Think looooong term! Give that tree the best life it could possibly have and plant it with its full size in mind.

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Collecting Seeds

Humans have played an intricate part in hybridization of seeds since the stone age. I’m NOT talking GMO here, I’m discussing good old fashioned cross

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Seconds Anyone?

Now that you’ve harvested those carrots, and the peas have long since pulled out, it’s time to plant again! Don’t let that bare ground go to waste and get that second crop growing now!

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Myth Busting the Mosquito Plants!

Nothing is more irritating to me than seeing plants labeled with misleading or outright false information. In the case of plants labeled as ‘mosquito repellents’ (ex. citronella, lemongrass, rosemary, mints, catmint, and lemon balm) these are sadly, inflated claims.

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