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 […]
Medicinal Native Plants
Katie Vincent, – Garden Hotline Educator Oregon grape and cascara may not be as bright or showy as the dahlias in your garden, but don’t be fooled—these humble, hardy plants are merely downplaying the many benefits they offer to our world. Besides drought tolerance, preexisting climate adaptation and acting as wildlife food sources, most plants […]
Bare Root Berries
Katie Vincent, Garden Hotline Educator With the upswing of permaculture and food forests, perennials edibles like berries are on the rise and gardens like the Beacon Hill food forest are gaining momentum. And really… why not be able to eat the ornamental landscaping plants you’re already spending money on to keep alive? On top of […]