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If you are looking for an easy way to acidify your soil to give acid-loving plants such as blueberries, azaleas and rhododendrons a little boost this growing season, grab the coffee grounds. By adding a little bit of coffee grounds to your soil every month, you’ll help keep the pH of the soil on the Read More >>
My buddies Amberlina and Lola are in town this weekend and one of the things on our to do list was to check out the Japanese Tea Garden in Seattle. Have you been? If you live in the Seattle area, you really need to stop over at the Japanese Gardens. It was one of the Read More >>
Holy Canolies! Yesterday my buddies Amberlina and Lola and I packed up a wheelbarrow full of gnomes and headed on down to the Mother Earth News Fair in Puyallup to hang out with my online boyfriend Ryan from Botanical Interests Seeds. It. Was. Nuts! Not only did we help Ryan sell a few seeds in Read More >>
Last night as I was walking through our garden I noticed there were a few fruits and vegetables that were doing exceptionally well. The raspberries for instance. I am pretty convinced there will be a bumper crop of berries this year. The raspberry patch has been buzzing with activity for the last week and a Read More >>
Today Ryan and I took a ferry to The Johnson Farm on Anderson Island. My neighbor Mrs. Hillbilly and I went to the farm last weekend and had so much fun that I had to take Ryan back and show him around. Sue Huseby {who is totally awesome!} is the current community garden coordinator and Read More >>
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