Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
Walk through any garden center or home store today and you’ll find rows and rows bursting with a beautiful array of summer flowers, vegetables, and herb plants. Spring has finally arrived, and gardeners in northern Idaho are eager to start planting everything from petunias to peppers. Whoa, Nellie! Hold on a minute (or a few weeks). Just because these warm-season…
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The back seat of your car is chock-full of plants. Yippee!! But, it’s still April… uh oh. Now what?? Box-stores, home centers, Costco, and even some nurseries, are bursting with beautiful summer flowers, herbs, and vegetables. And gardeners are eager to get planting; a list of “must-have plants” in one hand and a trowel in the other! It’s really hard…
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Spring is here, but in northern Idaho, it’s still going to be several weeks before we can begin thinking about planting warm-season crops like tomatoes and peppers. But don’t despair, April is a great month to prepare your garden for the coming season and even plant a variety of cool-season crops that you can harvest before the end of May!…
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January and February are difficult months for gardeners living in northern climes. There’s just not much you can do when the ground is frozen and covered with snow. Plus, it’s still too early to do much indoor seed starting. Thankfully, it is the perfect time for winter sowing – a method of starting seeds outside in late winter, usually between…
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