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The Final Fall Plantings

Your summer crops are coming out of the garden now, and finally there is space available to put in some winter vegetables. But alas, the nursery shelves are bare and the days are getting too short and...

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Fall Tasks: Plant Alliums, Ditch Disease, Sheet-mulch a New Bed

Got a plan for this weekend? It could be one of our last warm and dry spells, so I plan to get some fall work done in my vegetable garden. Discard Debris First task is to clean up from all the...

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Shielding Plants From Frost

I’m a day late with this post — did your garden get frosted over last night? Here on Phinney Ridge in Seattle, I experienced a light frost: slight pockets of it on the grass, and my cold frame (and all...

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Thankful for garden bounty

Under a warming sun as the fog cleared this afternoon, I picked a salad for our Thanksgiving dinner. Here’s what we had. Here’s the only thing not picked fresh today: Happy Thanksgiving!

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Frost protection

Frosty nights are here, followed by gloriously brilliant mornings. Here’s the frost melting off my new bell cloche, which is in turn covering a fine-looking Marshall lettuce. By the way, I found this...

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The veggies have a snow day

Snow hit my garden this morning, so I took a few pictures before the rain melts it all away.  

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Aren’t Vegetables Amazing?

We had an unexpected snow here on Sunday, which was pretty significant. Late in the season for us, and it was more than just a dusting. So here’s what happened with my winter veggies. I know I talk a...

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Perfect Fall Planting Weather

Your favorite nursery might have a large seed rack with […]

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Gently Go Into Autumn

If you’re focused on growing food year round, you might […]

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Why Broccoli Didn’t Flower

Recently, a gardener asked our Master Gardener clinic w […]

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Cover Fall Edibles Now

In my Seattle garden, fallen leaves are drifting up aro […]

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Post-holiday yard frosting

I got out the plant blankets. Going into last weekend, […]

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Project: Insulating a Worm Bin

I often joke that the worms  are my only pets, and to a […]

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Pest Hunting: A Brassica Task

My many fall and winter Brassicas are sizing up nicely, but the ones not tented with floating row cover are showing a little chewing and some curling leaves. The culprits are cabbage butterfly larvae,...

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November Tasks: Slow Gardening

Grab that sliver of sunlight between showers and get out into the garden. Fleece up and tidy the shed on a rainy day. Scratch out some thoughts on next year, with notes on this year’s successes and...

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Early Winter in My Outdoor Refrigerator

A good rule of thumb for winter edibles is to have your vegetables large enough for harvest by mid-December, which I achieved with some of my plantings. Carrots, beets and kohlrabi are ready anytime....

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My Edible Seattle Column Debuts

It’s all about edibles in my garden. And in my writing. And on this site. So I was delighted to be offered the task of writing a new column for Edible Seattle called (you probably guessed it) The...

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Plunge In Pungent Alliums

To paraphrase an old saying: Give a person garlic and they can ward off vampires once; teach a person how to grow garlic, and they will be free of vampires for a lifetime. Have you planted your garlic...

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Giving Thanks, 2016

This holiday weekend, the garden is soggy from steady rains. But the day before Thanksgiving yielded a warm, dry spell that got me out amongst the vegetable beds to harvest a bounty for our holiday...

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Snow Blankets My Winter Garden

I’m a bit late in posting these images, but here are some photos of the snow day we had in Seattle last Thursday, Dec. 8. Up here on Phinney Ridge (about 300 feet above sea level) we got perhaps two...

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