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April 28, 2025
Garden Design
Dan Gilchrist
Designing Your Garden for Shade

Gardening in the PNW with lots of shade: we mostly love living among the trees. We recognize the importance of preserving and restoring our diminishing urban canopy. But trying to grow colorful flowers, fruits or vegetables under trees can be a challenge. And increasing urbanization brings taller buildings and more shade at ground level. This blog post will help illuminate the types of shade you may be dealing with, discuss other design considerations, and offer sample shade garden designs and plant lists.

Designing Your Garden for Shade
April 17, 2025
Edible Gardening
Aimée Damman
The Best Tomatoes to Grow in the PNW

For many of us, the choice of which tomatoes to grow can be daunting. We've boiled down the tomato decision process into a few helpful questions and our suggestions: a secret (tomato) sauce, if you will, of how to make the right choice for your individual tomato needs. At the end of this post are a handy infographic and a link to our tomato variety list.

The Best Tomatoes to Grow in the PNW
March 14, 2025
Container Gardening
Charlo W.
DIY Spring Container Gardens

Colorful spring containers celebrate the start of the gardening season and creating them is fun and easy if you know which plants to choose. Look for these great gems to create a new spring container or refresh an existing pot.

DIY Spring Container Gardens
March 31, 2021
Edible Gardening, Container Gardening
Aimée Damman
How to Garden in Planter Boxes

Spring gardening is in full swing and we’ve teamed up with our friends at Dunn Lumber to bring you a great DIY building and gardening project you can do at home - no backyard needed! Kirsten will teach you how to make two wooden planter boxes. I’ll help you decide what to plant in them and show you how, step by step!

How to Garden in Planter Boxes
March 7, 2021
Edible Gardening
Aimée Damman
Vegetables to Plant in Spring

One of the first activities I want to do outside in early spring is to plant my early spring vegetable garden. There’s nothing like the smooth, clean surface of prepped garden beds, the soil still pristine and just waiting to nurture rows of bright green spring vegetables, carefully planted in perfect rows. It’s like a fresh school notebook - full of promise. But what to plant? Here are a few of my favorite vegetables to plant in spring, with tips on when and how to plant them.

Vegetables to Plant in Spring
Lena Curl
April 28, 2016
Container Gardening, Edible Gardening

9 Best Herbs for Containers

Lena Curl
April 28, 2016
Container Gardening, Edible Gardening
9 Best Herbs for Containers

Container herb gardening has us hooked for many reasons. Growing herbs in containers is great if you’re short on space, have poor soil conditions, or just want to keep your herbs close to the kitchen! 

Tagged: herbs, patio, container gardening resources, edible gardening resources, growing herbs, growing food in containers

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Aimée Damman
April 28, 2016
Edible Gardening

5 Top Tomatoes

Aimée Damman
April 28, 2016
Edible Gardening
5 Top Tomatoes

We love trying out new tomato varieties, but we also have our favorites, tomatoes we grow year after year. Here are a few of our top tomatoes for 2016 and beyond. Comment to let us know your favorites!

Tagged: tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes, tomatoes for containers, veggies, roma tomatoes, veggie gardening, warm-season veggies, vegetable gardening

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Cecil McLeod
April 12, 2016
Swansons Stories

Just Hatched 2016: The Chicks Have Names

Cecil McLeod
April 12, 2016
Swansons Stories
Just Hatched 2016: The Chicks Have Names

The following is a true story. Only the names have been changed to protect the chickens. That's right! Swansons is proud to announce that our girls have been named. And the envelope please...

Tagged: chicks, chickens

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Cecil McLeod
April 1, 2016
Swansons Stories

Just Hatched 2016: We Have Chicks!

Cecil McLeod
April 1, 2016
Swansons Stories
Just Hatched 2016: We Have Chicks!

Hello again friends! Spring has sprung and the chicks are back (hold for applause)! So excited am I that I could molt right now!

Tagged: chickens, chicks, baby chicks, contests

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