Root Tomato Suckers for Free Plants This June
Tomato suckers are usually something you snap off and toss. Turns out they’re also free, ready-to-root plants. Here’s how to root them in water or damp potting mix and get fruit before fall.
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Bush Beans vs Pole Beans: Which One Wins Your Garden?
Bush beans give you a quick harvest burst, pole beans give you months of production in a tiny footprint. Here’s how to decide which to plant, what cheap varieties to grab, how to trellis for almost nothing, and why you might want both in a small PNW garden this June.
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What to Start from Seed in June (PNW)
June is when the direct-sow window finally opens wide in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s what to plant now, what to skip, and why timing matters more than enthusiasm.
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What to Grow in Your PNW Garden in June
June is the sweet spot for PNW gardeners. Warm-season transplants can finally go in, there’s a long list of stuff to direct sow, and a short list of things you should just stop trying. Here’s what’s actually worth planting right now in Redmond.
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Lettuce Succession Plant (Or Eat Salad for a Week and Nothing for Two Months)
Planting all your lettuce at once gets you eleven days of salad and two months of nothing. Here’s how to stagger your sowings in May so you’re actually eating from the garden all summer long.
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Lettuce Succession Plant Your Way to All-Season Harvests
Planting all your lettuce at once is a mistake I made for three years running. Succession planting fixes the feast-or-famine cycle with nothing but a calendar and two feet of row space every couple weeks. Here’s how to set it up for continuous harvests all season long.
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Planning Your 2026 Vegetable Garden in December
December in Redmond is the best time to plan next year’s vegetable garden, before seed catalogs sell out and February sneaks up on you. Here’s how to map your beds, decide what to start from seed, and actually set yourself up for a better 2026 harvest.
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Beat the Frost: Planting Beets and Beans in August for a Fall Harvest
August feels late to be planting, but beets and beans still have a solid window here in zone 8b. Here’s what to put in the ground now for a real fall harvest before the frost shows up.
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Keep ‘Em Coming: Succession Planting Cucumbers and Beans So You’re Not Drowning in July and Starving in August
One planting of cucumbers or beans gives you a three-week sprint and then nothing. Here’s how I fixed that with three simple sowings and a paper calendar my daughter draws cucumbers on.
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Never Run Out: Cucumbers and Beans All Summer
Plant everything at once and you get one overwhelming harvest followed by nothing. Here’s how I stagger cucumbers and beans so we’re picking all summer instead of composting in July and buying at the farmers market in August.
