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Tips & Articles tagged as: permaculture

Cover Crops 101

September 11, 2020

Cover crops are plants grown primarily to improve and protect soil. Though they can be grown any time of year, they are most valuable at the end of a productive growing season. Fall-sown cover crops enrich and protect your soil in multiple ways. Preservation of soil structure – Protect against the physical impact of months […]

Posted in Garden Hotline | Tagged bees, covercrop, Insects, Mulch, permaculture, pollinator, soil, soil health | Leave a response

Edible Spring Weeds

Katie Vincent, Garden Hotline Educator Emeritus

June 11, 2020

  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 […]

Posted in Plant Care, Plant Recommendations | Tagged eat weeds, edible, edible plants, permaculture, pesticide-free, weeds, wild plants | 2 Responses

Raspberries and Blackberries!

Bare Root Berries

January 8, 2015

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 […]

Posted in Plant Recommendations | Tagged bare root, berries, perennial edibles, permaculture | Leave a response

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Waning into Winter

December 17, 2020

Topics: bees, birds, lawns, Leaves, planting, winter

Cover Crops 101

September 11, 2020

Topics: bees, covercrop, Insects, Mulch, permaculture, pollinator, soil, soil health

Looking Forward to Fall

August 21, 2020

Puget Sound Basin in August

July 30, 2020

Edible Spring Weeds

June 11, 2020

Topics: eat weeds, edible, edible plants, permaculture, pesticide-free, weeds, wild plants

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