Tag: Gardening
15 article(s) found with this tag.
Mulch ado about garden plastics
Spring 2012
In 2001, Carol Miles certified WSU’s first piece of organic land, a
three-acre parcel at the WSU Vancouver Research and Extension Unit.
It was a landmark moment, leading the way for organicall...
Categories: Agriculture, Environmental studies
Tags: Gardening, Sustainability, Organic foods
Brian Carter ’06—On the same garden path
Spring 2010
Brian Carter ’06 is a natural
resource specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, but he often
uses a shorter description.“I’m a curator,” he says, while offering up the Latin name for a tree
at Seattle’s Ballard Locks. “I m...
Categories: Alumni, Global Campus, Agriculture
Tags: Gardening, Parks
Master Gardeners
Fall 2009
"Cultivating plants, people, and communities since 1973" is how the Master Gardeners explain themselves. The concept has worked well. Washington, where it all started, now has over 3,000 volunteer Master Gardeners, who in exchange for training in turn give their knowledge and expertise to others in their communities. These communities have now spread across the United States and Canada.
Categories: WSU Extension, Agriculture
Tags: Gardens, Gardening
Through the Garden Gate
Spring 2008
Invasive species--plants, animals, and microbes--have been estimated to cost American businesses and taxpayers at least $122 billion every year in damaged property, lost productivity, and control efforts. However, perhaps more costly in the long run is the damage done to natural communities.
Categories: Botany, Biological sciences
Tags: Gardening, Invasive weeds
The orphan flower
Spring 2008
In a Washington State University greenhouse, on the roof
of Abelson Hall, dwells an orphan. Sheltered by a translucent
plastic tent that diffuses the sunlight, drenched in water
that keeps the air heavy with moisture, a semitropical plant called
...
Categories: Botany
Tags: Tropical plants, Gardening
Eat more garlic
Spring 2006
If there's just one thing you plant in your garden, make it
garlic.For one thing, it's extraordinarily easy to grow. Plant it
around Columbus Day. Cover it with mulch. Or don't. Water it now
and then when it starts growing again in the spring. And...
Categories: Health sciences, Food, Agriculture
Tags: Gardening, Garlic, 4-H
Plants of the Wild
Winter 2004
Categories: WSU Extension
Tags: Gardening, Palouse
Gardening on the Palouse
Summer 2004
The area known to practically every Washingtonian as "the
Palouse" is one of six large grassland communities in North
America. The Palouse stretches from just south of Spokane to the
Snake River valley, near Moscow and Pullman. Today, it is a fert...
Categories: WSU Extension, Environmental studies
Tags: Horticulture, Palouse, Gardening
The Last Roses of Summer
Spring 2004
Steve Smith has good news for those of us who like to satisfy
more than one sense at a time. The domestic rose, bred too long for
form and color only, to the detriment of scent, is regaining its
fragrance. Smith '76, the head rose gardener at Mani...
Categories: Botany
Tags: Roses, Gardening
Pacific Northwest sagebrush steppe
Winter 2003
Though it is the most widespread of plant ecosystems in eastern
Washington, covering 24,000 square miles, the sagebrush-steppe is
probably the least understood, and therefore the least appreciated,
especially among gardeners. By nature, gardeners ...
Categories: Botany, Agriculture
Tags: Sagebrush steppe, Gardening, Eastern Washington
Emerald winters, brown summers
Summer 2003
How dry it is! Understanding the summer climate west of the
Cascades baffles lots of residents. The "emerald green" attitude
extends to believing that summer months wrap themselves in rain and
mist just as winter does. However, our "modified Medit...
Categories: WSU Extension
Tags: Seattle, Gardening, Water
Living and gardening in the Pacific Northwest - Spring 2003
Spring 2003
Some gardeners work to change conditions in their yard to create
havens of greenery and blooms with plants that wouldn't grow there
otherwise. They amend the soil to suit plants' needs, they water a
lot during the summer, and they give added prote...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Gardening
Living and gardening in the Pacific Northwest
Winter 2002
In Washington State, it has been over 200 years since indigenous
peoples described where they lived as "the place where camas
blooms" or "the place where wild onions nod." In other parts of the
country, it has been even longer.Where Native America...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Gardening
Killer compost
Fall 2002
If you use compost in your
garden, you may be setting yourself up for either a bumper crop
or a bummer crop.Gardeners, greenhouse operators, and organic farmers from
Washington to California have experienced crop failures on certain
plants af...
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Gardening
Fall is the time to plant bulbs—but maybe not the ones you'd planned on
Fall 2002
Another approach to perennials is to go back to basics--native plants.
Categories: Agriculture
Tags: Flowers, Gardening