Gardening between the Cascades and the Rockies.

Its spring and the fruit trees are about to bloom. It’s time to start planning how to reduce the chance that you will have to share your apples with codling moths and apple maggots. As it finally warms up, apple trees will soon be blooming. With the blooms will come the battle with the apple […]
Posted: April 29th, 2009 under Insect Pests, Spring.
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This piece first appeared in the Winter 2009 Issue of Master Gardener Magazine; www.mastergardeneronline.com
Did the bugs do a number on your garden plants this past growing season? Did they chomp up the leaves of a special plant or suck the life out of your roses? Regardless they took some of the joy out of your […]
Posted: April 13th, 2009 under beneficial insects, Blog.
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Geez, Today is April 1 but Mother Nature is still playing winter tricks on us. Monday Spokane broke the all time record for snow set back in the winter of 1949-50 by a tenth of an inch - 93.6 inches. All but 12 of those came in the December and early January dump. And we […]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under Spring, Blog.
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