http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories Gardening between the Cascades and the Rockies. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:36:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out the Ellensburg section of the photo gallery for summer images from five very different gardens in the Kittitas valley. It's often very windy in Ellensburg and these gardens are designed to stand up to the blows, either through plant selection or the use of a very effective tall ... http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories/2008/07/04/summer-gardens-in-ellensburg/ 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 ... http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories/2008/06/10/its-not-pepper-growing-weather/ 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 ... http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories/2008/01/07/its-time-to-tidy-up-the-garden-tools/ by Pat Munts As a child, Tsuneko Horton spent many long afternoons gathering wild lilies. They grew everywhere on her small island off the southern coast of Japan. She fell in love with them. Today, on the other side of the Pacific, in the pine forests of northeast Washington, she and ... http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories/2007/09/17/lilies-%e2%80%94-the-ladies-of-the-garden/ 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 ... http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories/2007/09/17/let-your-lawn-renovation-begin/ 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 ... http://www.inlandnwgardening.com/stories/2007/09/17/vegetable-garden-q-a/