Oregon Tree Hugger

Whether you just bought new strawberry starts or you realized you don’t like where your current strawberry patch is growing, this step-by-step guide will help you get your strawberries off to the right start with a proper planting.

The strawberries are getting a new home this year — a raised garden bed made of cedar! This is how I built it, in case you want to build your own.

Spring is nearly here, so now is the time to evaluate my little strawberry patch and decide what needs to be done to prepare it for the coming season.

Spring is fast approaching, so it is time for some spring planning in terms of planting! Now is the time to finalize those varieties that you will be growing and get your seed growing kits ready. I added new seed varieties this year as well as a new seed starting kit with heat mats.

My excitement of having blueberry bushes last year quickly wore off when I realized I had put them in a bad place. This year, I had to right that wrong by moving them to a higher, drier, and sunnier location.

Pouring rain isn’t enough to keep this gardener inside. Read on to find out what I had to do to help my garden through the downpour, and what lessons I pulled from the experience.

Trellises for vegetables and other plants can be expensive but they don’t have to be. You can use the things you find around you to make your own trellises with gardening wire.

The morning sun cast a soft light on the gardens here a the Hugger House, and I took a tour to review how everything is doing.

I hadn’t really planned out the planting and care of the garden when I planned it, so when the time came … well, things got a little interesting.

House project updates: The split cedar dog run fence has been completed, and our dangerous brick step has been replaced with a nice aggregate concrete one.