Plan & Purchase:This is a great month to order bare root fruit trees and shrubs! If you didn’t get a garlic order in or save your own seed cloves, hit up your local farmers market before they shut down and buy some hardneck garlic to plant now. If you don’t have cloches, buy or scrounge [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: September 2011
September 2, 2011 by · 3 Comments
Plan & Purchase: You’ve ordered your garlic, already, right? If you want to expand your fruit or perennial selection, you can order now and plan on late fall to get trees, bushes and vines in the ground. Sow Indoors: Unless you’ve got a heated greenhouse, there’s no reason to start anything under lights now. Sow Outside Plan [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: August 2011
August 3, 2011 by · 3 Comments
From the Maritime Northwest Garden Guide:“The cooler weather that takes the heat out of summer frequently arrives during the final two weeks of August.” So just in case you’ve been feeling beat down by the sweltering high-60s/low-70s weather we’ve been having, relief is on the way! I jest of course. This summer officially isn’t. Still, there [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: July 2011
July 5, 2011 by · 4 Comments
It looks like warmer weather might finally be here. (Quick, someone knock on some wood!) It’s relative, of course, warmer in my neighborhood is 72 degree days and 53 degree nights. That’s enough for me to get a rosy glow about my neck and shoulders while I work the garden, and is good news for [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: June 2011
May 31, 2011 by · 6 Comments
Well, here it is, almost the beginning of May and things are right on schedule. Wait, what? It’s the beginning of June? As in, it’s almost summer? How the heck is it almost June? Certainly none of my plants think it’s June, so I’m terribly sorry but you must just be mistaken. OK, back to [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: May 2011
May 3, 2011 by · 9 Comments
I don’t want to be one of those gardeners who’s always complaining about the weather, but about an hour ago a sudden, heavy, loud hailstorm rolled over my house. It was the kind of hail that shreds new seedlings like ice shot, chills the top layer of soil and makes a helluva lotta noise as [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: April 2011
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It is officially Springtime! The apple and cherry and pear trees are in blossom, ambitious joggers are wearing short shorts and it is safe to start sowing seeds with reckless abandon. No foolin’.Plan & Purchase:Now’s the time that nurseries start carrying a wide assortment of seedlings, ready to harden off and pop right in your [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: March 2011
March 1, 2011 by · 6 Comments
Just getting started? Don’t worry, you’re not too late. Almost everything that could be done in February can still be done now. Plan & Purchase:If you haven’t ordered your seed potatoes yet, get on it! Bare root fruit trees and bushes should be in by the end of the month at the latest. The last [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: February 2011
February 1, 2011 by · 2 Comments
Well, I can feel the days getting longer, can you? It’s starting to be light outside for an appreciable period of time after my daughter comes home from school. I’m itching to get outside, it feels like there’s so much to do! But I try to remind myself that the ground is still cold and [Continue Reading...]
To Do In The Northwest Edible Garden: January 2011
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Mid-January is about as early as you can get seed going under light. That’s still plenty early for hardy vegetables and long-season crops. In any event, it always takes me a week or two after New Years to recover from the holidays and get back into a rhythm. So, anytime from mid-month to the end [Continue Reading...]
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