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Gardening with Vegetables,
Herbs, Fruits and Flowers


vegtable garden and fruit trees

The peaches are ripe for the picking, the corn is coming on strong, the carrots, beans, cabbages, blackberries and raspberries and some of the tomato's and peppers all seem to be ready at the same time.

When the garden is ready for harvesting it is the most exciting time of the season, all of our hard work is paying off.

Our hard work is not over though, now we begin the process of picking, cleaning, drying, freezing and canning.

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Our goal of our website is to share our experience with others,

and maybe inspire someone to start gardening,

the way we were inspired was through our parents and grandparents.


Snow, snow and more snow

Winter can be long with lots of snow, sometimes we have had snow on the ground from mid December.

As the winter tends to get a little depressing a light at the end of the tunnel is our greenhouse. When January starts we begin to plant our new crop.

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 What our garden looks like during winter as we start to plant our seeds in the greenhouse


One of our favorite Iris's in bloom

We have been gardening in the Spokane area for 14 years now and
previously in the Seattle area for about 20 plus years.

Of course what we can grow in Spokane compared to the coasty side is totally different. In Seattle we were able to grow lots of lettuce,
(If the slugs did not eat it all) and beans, radish's and all of the other cool climate plants, sometimes we could get a few ears of corn.

Here in the Spokane area corn is one of the easiest crops to grow.
We also grow a lot of tomato's, cantaloupes, cabbage, carrots,
peppers, onions, garlic (planted in the fall like a tulip) eggplant, asparagus, raspberries, blueberries (with soil amendments)
thornless blackberries, logan berries and many fruit trees.
We have apple, peach, plum, cherry and pear.

The picture to the right is one of our corn stalks in full bloom

The picture to the left are some of our favorite Iris's
Corn in full bloom



Our worst fear, a June hail storm

Hail Storm

Sometimes our worst fears in the garden happen,
a june hail storm, pounding down on our tiny seedlings.

Our garden did recover but it set us back a couple of weeks.
The cantaloupe were almost all destroyed, and had to be planted again.

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One of the reasons we have a tall garden fence

Turkey's

Turkey's are fun to watch but they can destroy our garden plants very quickly, we have a 6 foot tall fence around our garden, it keeps out most of them but once in a while we have to chase one out that flew in.

The turkeys scratch and dig up the plants even though we only have berries, asparagus and garlic growing right now.

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These trukeys can destroy a garden very fast


Map showing where we are located


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