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Free tools for planning your fall garden

One of the best things about gardening in the PNW is that we can grow vegetables year-round. Now is the time to plant a fall vegetable garden from seed or starts. Lots of people have been asking me what to plant at this time of year. My favorite resource for planning garden beds [...]

Winter gardening at thrift-store prices

Have you ever lusted after those cool greenhouse and cloche kits in garden catalogs that cost a fortune? They provide a great way to extend the growing season for summer crops, overwinter cool season crops and start spring crops early. With a little imagination you can use many different cheap or found items as greenhouse and [...]