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Gardening

May

18

2023

Bestseller Spotlight: How Does Your Garden Grow?

It’s time for a Thursday Theme, where we shine a spotlight on some of the titles featured in this week’s Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association regional bestseller list. Here’s a springtime story about gardening, inspired by titles from the most recent list: Whether your ideal garden is A Court of Thorns and Roses (Sarah J. Maas, Paperback fiction …

Apr

22

2021

Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden by Marc Hamer

Seed to Dust is about a year in a garden – a big, sprawling yet tidy Welsh garden, filled with flowers and trees, bushes and critters. If you love gardens of any kind, you’ll love this month-by-month guide to enjoying nature with a “master” gardener who shares stories of life, love and listening along the …

Jan

25

2021

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest
by Lorene Edwards Forkner

As I scrambled this year to relearn old gardening skills to plant a serious pandemic garden, it was so easy to follow the month by month guide for a wide variety of vegetables; it had all of the vegetables I was interested in growing and a lot of cultivation information– everything from seed orders through …

Sep

4

2020

All New Square Foot Gardening
by Mel Bartholomew

One of few pleasures of the 2020 pandemic was the opportunity to try a vegetable garden, a staple in my parents’ and grandparents’ yards growing up. After years of urban living, I lacked a green thumb. But following the simple and cheerful guidelines of the enthusiastic Bartholomew, I finally nailed it — with carrots, peppers, …

Mar

4

2019

The Wolf in the Whale

An Unexpected Recommendation Pairing: “Growing Berries and Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest” by Tara Austen Weaver and “The Wolf in the Whale” by
Jordanna Max Brodsky

Here’s a book about growing fruit in your backyard.   This book contains instructions for caring for more than seventy-five different cultivars. All of which can be grown right here in the Pacific Northwest. Just think, you can start planting this week, and all your friends in the midwest will be sooper jealous that you …

Apr

15

2013

Roots Shoots Buckets & Boots
by Sharon Lovejoy

“Gardening with children can be an incredible experience. They see so many things adults take for granted and miss! Listed is a group of plants that children love watching grow as they care tenderly for the plant to mature—pumpkins, sunflowers, hollyhocks, carrots and poppies are just a few that are recommended. There is a list …

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