March is the consummate month to plant “cool season” veggies like potatoes and carrots and onions and radishes, leaf crops like lettuce and spinach and cabbage and broccoli and finally peas.  All of these crops demand...

Spring is an elusive season for the northwest.  Typically what happens is that winter comes and goes for what seems like months on end and then one day we wake up and it is summer.  I have heard that...

I think we can all agree that February has been a stinker of a month this year.  Cold, wet, windy and even some snow was about all we could manage this month...

We live in a maritime climate and what makes us unique from other parts of the country is...

I would hope that many of you had a chance to attend the Northwest Flower and Garden show this last week. It is always a highlight of the month for me and a great way to get me into the mood for gardening again...

Get ready for another short arctic blast.  Temps will drop into the teens tonight through possibly Thursday and just to be on the safe side gardeners should...

Back in the late 60's when I was finishing up my undergraduate studies house plants were all the rage...

January is typically a time for gardeners to hunker down by the fire and plow through the seed catalogs and dream about the wonderful gardens we are going to grow in the coming spring.  It would seem as though nothing much is going on in the yard but I can assure you that any time the mercury gets into the 40’s things are indeed happening.  Here are just a few examples: