July is the time to start overwintering brassicas like purple sprouting broccoli. Start seeds now, transplant in late August, and let the plants build over winter so they explode with early spring shoots when everything else is still mud. Patience pays off big.
July feels like coasting season but it’s secretly one of the most important planting months in the Pacific Northwest. Fall brassicas, carrots, beets, cilantro, and succession lettuce all need to go in now before the timing window slams shut. Here’s what to start and why you can’t wait.
June in Redmond means slugs are everywhere and white butterflies are shopping your brassicas. Here’s what actually works cheap for slug and cabbage worm control in the PNW, and what the internet keeps getting wrong.
A lot of standard gardening advice was written for somewhere warmer and sunnier than the Pacific Northwest. Here’s how growing potatoes, onions, tomatoes, brassicas, garlic, and mulch timing actually changes depending on your climate.
No pots, no cells, no squeezing seedlings out of tiny plastic trays. The seed snails method rolls your seeds up in bubble wrap or paper so you can unroll them straight into the garden at transplant time. It sounds weird. It works great.
February feels too early to start seeds, but for broccoli and cabbage it’s exactly right. Here’s how to get brassicas going indoors in the Pacific Northwest without spending much or messing up the timing.