I recently attended not one but two gardening webinars hoping for native plant ideas for our very shady, tree-filled yard. We have a lot of trees. I haven’t counted them, but I…

10-minute gardener: excess inventory  We had some work done on our house and wound up with piles of building materials: old deck boards and concrete pavers. I lovingly refer to…

After spending a lot of time and backbreaking work to create new garden beds, I was excited to discover a better but slower method: sheet mulching. With this method, you…

Have a gift list to work through? Consider gifts of time or gifts of service for the important people on your list. Make your own personalized gift certificates using Canva (they offer…

The seed garlic arrived. I put it in a cool place with air circulation before planting. It’s big! It’s been a while since I purchased bulb garlic. I’ve been a…

Thanks to the weird weather and the challenges of growing tomatoes in our part shade garden, we have many green and partially ripe tomatoes.  This happens every year. The plants…

One of the plants that we planted last fall is putting on a show: Fireworks goldenrod (Solidago rugosa ‘Fireworks’). It blooms for about a month starting in September. It’s 3-4…

The rains have finally come to Olympia, Washington. It’s been a very dry and warm fall. Climate change is happening in my yard. I’m trying to figure out how to…

How many working adults have ADHD? It's impossible to know, partly because many people are never evaluated. It does seem unlikely that 9.4% of children magically morph to 2.8% of…

Last year I purchased some worm castings at the Olympia Farmers Market. It took me a while to use the whole bag and was very surprised to find my very…