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  • Transplanting your veggies successfully

    Chip Bubl|Apr 17, 2025

    Many gardeners use transplants to get earlier vegetable harvests. Transplants allow the gardener to space the plants perfectly, so you don’t have to “thin” like you would if you direct sowed vegetable seed. Germinating weed seeds are at a disadvantage when they face the more competitive transplant. However, home grown transplants receive quite a shock when they are moved into the garden. First, they have been living in a greenhouse or cold frame. Greenhouse soil and air temperatures are far warmer than the garden soil they will be going into, e...

  • Gardening in the Lower Columbia

    Chip Bubl|Apr 3, 2025

    If you have never had a vegetable garden, or your experience vegetable gardening was a long time ago, you may be unsure about how to start and which vegetables to try. Here are a few ideas that may help your garden flourish: Vegetable gardens need at least six hours of sun. The more sun the garden gets, the more vegetable choices you have and the faster the vegetables will grow. If you are near or below six hours of sun, concentrate on leafy greens (lettuce, kale, chard, etc.), beets, and carrots. If possible, create your garden where it is...