Inland Northwest Gardening

First published in the Spokesman-Review, Aug 26, 2010
Early September is the perfect time to renovate a tired and worn lawn in our area. The soil is still warm from summer but the temperatures are cooling and fall rains aren’t far off.
The first step is to determine why the lawn went into decline. Was it caused […]

What a summer. When it got hot in July, I was not looking forward to it being hot all the way to Labor Day. Not when we were trying to plan a wedding reception in the yard in mid-August. I had dreams of watering in my pajamas. But Mother Nature fooled us “again” and sent […]