Gardening 101

It’s gardening season again. Some of you are going Woo Hoo! Others are wishing I’d go back to talking about food. However, Mother’s Day was the opening of gardening season in the Pacific Northwest. As a nursery worker we dread Mother’s Day weekend. It’s like a florist on Valentine’s Day. Biggest holiday of the year. […]

I know I skipped Gardening 101 last week so I will get back to it this week. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see photos of the trusty husband teaching the boy how to skip rocks. This week I want to talk about the timing of pruning. Next to technique this is the most […]

I cannot tell you how many times I have sat down to write this article. Pruning is one of the things I am most passionate about as a horticulturalist. It ranks above organic gardening. Really. Pruning is one of the most abused art forms in the horticulture industry. Many a winter day I cringe as […]

First and foremost, the chocolates are gone. I had to make one quick trip to the post office to mail off the 2 boxes to a town in FL that has the same name as a town in Russia, but all is good. For some reason PayPal didn’t like that particular town. And when I […]

I have this category over there called Gardening 101. It rarely gets used. In the northwest the winter is too depressing to work in the garden. I mean it rains all. the. time. I hate being wet. Although I have been known to go pull Ivy out of my yard while it is pouring. I […]