Notes From the Garden

July in the Garden
Summer Garden Tours--One a Week, All Month

If you're finding yourself in a garden-funk, consider spending a morning at one of Seattle's many garden tours. The Central Area, Georgetown and West Seattle all have events coming up in July.

June In the Garden
Attracting Beneficial Insects

Kimberly Christensen tells us the secrets of how to protect your gardens from pests, while keeping beneficial insects happy.

In the Garden
Planting Seedlings in the Garden

Kimberly Christensen greets planting season with a collection of tips and tricks to help get your tender seedlings off to a good start in your garden.

In the Garden
Landscaping With Edible Plants

Last spring, Kimberly Christensen did something radical: she tore out my lawn and replaced it with native, medicinal and edible plants. You can, too.

February in the Garden
Indoor Seed Germination

Northwest gardeners, who find their growing season limited by cool and overcast summer days, often use indoor seed germination as a way of extending the growing season. Here's how.

Gardening
Cover Crops

Fall gardening: planting an overwintering cover crop.

Gardener's Journal
Autumn in Seattle: Time to Reap, Time to Sow

Plant fall crops now for overwintering.

Notes from the Garden
Pause, Ponder and Quietly Celebrate Your Garden

Dismiss those hopes that this year your garden will achieve that look you thought you wanted after looking at all those glossy, perfectly pictured gardens in the magazines and the books. Your garden has its own secrets that are beautifully unfolding right

Notes from the Garden
Tune Up Green Thumbs and Exercise Weather Skills

Spring weather throws its capricious fits at us. Moments or even sometimes hours of glorious sunshine followed by windy, cold squalls wreak havoc with our schedules. It takes great cunning on your part to outfox the weather.

Notes From The Garden
Creak, Stretch and Sigh with Pleasurable Garden Pain

We all know that we should act with moderation and approach our garden work with slow stretches that allow our bodies to regain their strength correctly. But it is still frightfully cold and there is so much to be done that all rational thought is left b

Notes from the Garden
Handy Gardening Journal Puts it all in Perspective

Contrary to that nagging, guilty feeling in your gut, there still is time to start a gardening journal this year.

Notes From the Garden
Gird Your Loins And Mulch

Let me fill in some details from my last column, and hopefully answer some good questions that were posed by readers.

Notes from the Garden
Time to Harvest Herbs

Want to know how to gather and dry your herbs?

Notes from the Garden
Time Mulches On

The hands just itch to get working again, yet all the advice says we must not touch the soggy soil. I have found that the soggy soil is actually just great for planting these days, IF it has been covered by a good layer of mulch.

Notes From the Garden
Tantalizing Seeds Make Staying Indoors Exciting

Let it rain, snow, blow, or just any other form of feisty weather so I will be forced to stay indoors and get my seed orders completed.

Notes From The Garden
In the Winter Bareness, Visions of Summer Bounty

I discovered that National Gardening Month starts on April Fool's Day. Hmmmmm . why does this amuse me so?