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June 11, 2011 By Candace Godwin Leave a Comment

I love basil.  Its heady, sweet smell is an instant reminder of summer, warm sunshine and tomatoes.  During the winter months I purchase living basil (hydroponic) and come early March, it’s the first seeds that I start. Unfortunately, for the second year in a row, the beautiful flat of basil which I started and nurtured during the cold, wet spring has succumbed to just that…
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June 10, 2011 By Candace Godwin Leave a Comment

It’s time for the Friends of Manito Spring Plant Sale at the Manito Gardens in Spokane, WA., this Saturday, June 11 from 10 am to 4 pm.   This is a fabulous sale for plants (just download the 19 page list to see everything they’re selling!).  It is a fund-raiser for the gardens, so while the plants are not necessarily “bargained-priced,” you are going…
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May 27, 2011 By Candace Godwin Leave a Comment

In addition to this blog, I keep an “old fashioned” garden journal – one I write in just about every weekend.  I usually start writing in January – listing out the new seeds or plants I want to try – and wrap it up in October with the “most successful” list for that garden season. This year my January wish-list was…
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May 21, 2011 By Candace Godwin 2 Comments

It’s been another cool, wet spring in north Idaho, but I think we are finally out of frost danger.  The 50+ tomato plants that I started in early March have been hardening off in the covered hoop bed for about two weeks.  We’ve been monitoring the overnight temperatures pretty closely with the help of a thermometer with a remote sensor and this…
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