Growing and Using Herbs From Your Garden
The Pacific Northwest is blessed with a climate that favors the growing of dozens or more herbs for use in the kitchen, beauty, and health products. Growing them yourself affords the opportunity to preserve them for future use a little at a time during the growing season or with larger harvests all at once in […]
Edible Spring Weeds
Katie Vincent, Garden Hotline Educator Emeritus
Frustrated with your weeds? This year, consider a new plan for revenge: tossing them in a salad and eating them! As the garden starts to send out signs of life this spring, so do all of the herbaceous weeds that hid out of sight all winter long. Mulching in late winter or early spring […]
We miss you, Cass!
From the Garden Hotline Staff
On January 25, 2017, the trees of our world lost a relentless ally. Cass Turnbull, a long-time horticulturalist and pruning advocate unexpectedly passed on from our world while on vacation in Hawaii. Cass was (and still is) one of our favorite humans. Her dedication to “ending plant mutilation” and engendering respect for plants led […]
Digital Garden Tools – A guide to online resources for climate and weather mapping
A guide to online resources for climate and weather mapping
Laura Matter – Garden Hotline Educator Just because you love to play in the dirt doesn’t mean you can’t also be computer savvy. Did you know there are a number of useful tools available online to help you map and anticipate climate, rainfall, frost dates and more for your gardening area? These tools can help […]