Oregon Tree Hugger

Are you getting confused while sorting through the many methods of pruning tomatoes? Try this no-nonsense approach to tomato care.

If life always went to plan, would we ever learn anything? This post is about what to do when the weather doesn’t work out, when caterpillars eat your crops, and when projects go astray.

I replaced my front bed of strawberries a while ago with some mixed succulents. The plants were supposed to be deer-proof, but the deer had other plans.

Repotting tomatoes is a technique that helps produce stocky, healthy and hearty tomato plants for your garden. In this post, I tell you how and when to plant and replant your tomatoes.

Have some free time on Wednesday, June 10th, a pair of gardening gloves and some hand pruners? Then come by Lost Creek Farm and help them recover from their huge losses at the hands of a recent hail storm.

Healing Harvest, a local horticulture therapy organization, had their annual plant sale this past weekend. I stopped by with the kids, took some great pics, and scored some great deals on many fantastic plants.

Urban wildlife is a reality for anyone living in the hills. In the long run, you (and your garden) will be happier if you can learn to live with the wildlife, stop fighting it, and actually enjoy the local fauna in your own yard.

I have some sort of wild onion growing in random places in my yard—a throwback to the days of this area being full of onion farms.