Inland Northwest Gardening

It was already hot at 10 in the morning. Outside the Spokane Valley Partners Food Bank a couple of dozen people were already lined up in the blazing sun waiting for the 11 a.m. opening time. Barbara Bennet, the food bank’s director was handing out numbers and sending folks to the shade of the auditorium. […]

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 […]

At 8 a.m. this moring, there was snow in the rain. This is June 10 for crying out loud and I’m at about 2100′ in elevation. My tomatoes have been in the ground for almost three weeks. The beans took three weeks to come up and I haven’t seen the corn or squash. In my […]

Heat took toll on zucchini plants
Q: Last year, our zucchini did real well. Like many people, we couldn’t harvest them fast enough. This year, our zucchini plant looks great and is putting out a lot of flowers and is setting zucchini as expected. However, when the zucchini are about 3 to 4 inches long, they […]