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Indoor Winter Gardening

Windowsill & Indoor Harvests: December already? Here we are planning our holidays and allowing ourselves to sneak a glance at 2026 seed catalogs. For gardening addicts, there is always something to do. If your green thumb is twitching, meet me here today for indoor and even windowsill winter gardening suggestions. Best thing: transfer your indoor […]
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Grow Your Own Produce – A Small-Scale Approach

Have you ever been interested in small scale food growing? If so, get ready to discuss topics such as Kitchen Scrap Gardening and Windowsill Gardening. Kitchen Scrap Gardening means reusing food scraps from your kitchen to grow new plants.  Many kitchen scraps can be regrown in water or soil. Here are some suggestions Vegetable Scraps […]
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Gardening in Times of Climate Change

In 2022 I began to pay more attention to climate change issues, and how we as home gardeners can adapt to the changing situation. A webinar I recently attended gave me some insights and approaches which I will share with you. First, let us look at some key questions: What is climate change? – it […]
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Small Space Gardening

Here we are – in the middle of winter! What a year. First, the growing season got off to a late start, then we had drought-like conditions, and before we knew it, we were well into the colder fall and winter months. And now, it’s time to give our yard and ourselves a well-deserved winter’s […]
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Late Season Gardening

It’s the end of another North Beach summer, and I have no idea what happened. Last I checked it was April, cold, windy, with lots of rain, and soil temperatures barely at 50 degrees when we truly need at least 55 degrees for seeding, germination, and growth. Yet here we are with beautiful weather since […]
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The Art of NatureScaping

Over the last couple of months, I have been attending several webinars presented by the Multnomah County Soil and Water Conservation, and I got tremendously inspired especially by their NatureScaping webinar. The difference – as I understand – between landscaping and NatureScaping is the intention and approach. When I think of landscaping, I think of […]
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