Inland Northwest Gardening

The local casinos have nothing on Inland Northwest gardeners this year. Mother Nature starts the gardening year with the deck and she deals what she wants. We can only hope to draw a good hand with our experience and effort. Like gamblers though we are always looking for ways to get inside information on how […]

January 27, 2009
Here is a collection of some of my favorite garden seed catalogs. Some from local Northwest sources and a few from around the country that understand short season growing or offer unusual selections.
Northwest based companies
Ed Hume Seeds
Organic and conventional seed company located in Puyallup, WA that specializes in seeds for cool and […]

November 21, Spokane WA
The leaves are gone now, scattered all over the place by the winds. The pine needles are pretty much down out of the trees. At our house that means two over 50ish folks have to tag team cleaning out the gutters so they will drain and won’t be around for fire season next year. […]

by Pat Munts
First published in the Spokesman-Review, November 13, 2007
Happy day! The garden finally got nailed with a killing frost. I can quit for the winter. There is one last chore to do before I can really lock the door on the tool shed, though. I need to clean and repair the tools […]