I threw away vegetable scraps for two full years before I started composting. Two years of coffee grounds and carrot peels going in the trash while I bought bags of compost at the garden center. May is the right time to fix that.
July in Redmond means bolting lettuce and a garden full of regret. Here’s what’s actually thriving in the heat right now, plus what you can still direct sow this month to get something out of the rest of summer.
If your indeterminate tomatoes are huge, leafy, and not producing much fruit, the suckers are probably to blame. Here’s how to prune them in ten minutes a week with no special tools and actually get tomatoes out of the deal.