Natural Garden
[VIDEO] Seed Sprouting and Succession Planting with Arugula and Salad Greens
https://youtu.be/LGN865zM0Ws I love gardening almost as much as I love eating from the garden! Today I would like to take you on a short video tour of our garden and the recent sowings of arugula and salad greens as part of the practical lab discussion on seed...
Going on in the PNW from Scratch Organic Garden – May 2016
It is May and summer is here, already. We went from a wet, rainy, miserable March - and the wettest Pacific Northwest winter on record - to a hot, sunny, record-breaking-80's April. The change happened so fast! Almost overnight. It feels like we skipped Spring again...
Five Surprisingly Useful Northwest Native Trees to Include in Your Landscape
It is the last Friday of the month... our 'Five Things Friday' AND, it is Arbor Day! So today we want to celebrate by sharing five of our favorite Pacific Northwest native trees to include (or keep) in your landscape, and why we love them. Read on, some of their uses...
Save Money: Mix up a Bulk Batch of Complete Organic Fertilizer (COF)
Every year since making the switch to organic, we try to shave a little off our gardening expense by mixing up our own bulk batch of ‘Complete Organic Fertilizer’ or COF. Once you have your ingredients together it only takes a few minutes and is so nice to have on hand for the gardening season.
The PNW from Scratch Garden Last June – A little dose of sunshine…
Here is a little something I came across this weekend that made me smile. We could all use a little something right now to help us remember the sunnier days. Wouldn't you say? Nothing fancy, just a fun little video that Google Photos put together from a bunch of...
5 Down & Dirty Resources for Year-Round Organic Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Here are 5 of the most helpful, go back to again-and-again, resources I’ve found on learning how to garden year-round in the Pacific Northwest. These are the essential resources I could not have lived without in the early days of my PNW organic gardening journey, and I still use each one of them to this day.
DIY Garden Planting Calendar – Hands Down the Most Time-Saving Section of My Garden Journal
If you have tried to implement year-round gardening or succession planting, then maybe you too have experienced the flurry of seed packets and chaos that can happen at sowing time. Often getting to it late, or sometimes too early, keeping up with seed sowing is an...
5 Things Friday… Jumping on the Bandwagon
Five things Friday, the blogger’s excuse to share random interesting stuff. I figured it was time to jump on the bandwagon. Why not? So here goes…
Five interesting things I have been working on, thinking about, watching, reading, etc.
PNW Medicinal Tea Garden – 14 medicinal plants for herbal tea that you can grow!
Growing your own herbs for tea is really not that hard. It is really just a matter of habit and mindset. We grow other things that are good for us, so why not? I bet you even have some of these in your garden (or weed patch) already!
New Year Garden Resolutions – January in the PNW from Scratch Garden
It is frozen solid outside. Still, the seed catalogs pour in. Timely reminders that another growing season is really just weeks away offering a rainbow of produce possibilities for the addicted dedicated gardener. Too soon you say? Not if you want to start artichokes this year.
