20 of the best Pacific Northwest garden books: See authors at the Great Grow Along virtual festival
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
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Are you ready to get your hands back into soil? Now’s the time for seasoned gardeners to plot their harvest schedules and for those new to gardening to plan their next step. It’s estimated that 16 million Americans started gardening during the coronavirus pandemic.
Across the Pacific Northwest and beyond, people turned ignored patches of their yard into fertile plots to grow their own organic vegetables, herbs, berries and fruit.
As spring planting takes place, local nurseries and garden centers are prepared to provide information and materials.
These websites can help you find perfect plants for spring
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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It’s dark much of the so-called day, too.
But the weather outside, no matter how frightful, has no impact on the internet.
On it, there’s a bright, colorful, dazzling world of online sites filled with enough plant information to put a spring in the step of even the most winter-weary gardeners.
Winter is a prime time to figure out which plants you’ll want to add to your garden this year, and the sites we’ll mention are excellent sources of information to help you make an informed decision and avoid the “that one looks pretty” impulse-buy approach to horticultural purchases.
It’s time to seed your ideas for this year’s garden Published January 7
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Print article As everyone else has already made clear, good riddance to 2020. What a strange year, so full of unexpected things! The big exception was gardening, which kept so many of us sane. Right now, I am hoping our ship rights itself, and we can face an upcoming summer season without having to wear masks and social distance as we plant and weed. To get into the gardening mood, this is the traditional time to check out print and online seed catalogs. This week I discuss the “standards.” These are the catalogs to start with, to spend some time with, as they could be all you need.