Tall Clover Farm

Seattle leads the nation in home composting, an impressive development thanks to the City of Seattle and King County’s effort to make it easy and almost second nature for residents to do so. According to King County, over 90 percent of single family households can now recycle food scraps in their yard waste bin, and [...]

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Attack of the brambles! See what I go through for a good berry pie. I recently received an email from a friend who has the greenest of thumbs. Michelle of Pacific Potager was sharing information about her latest discovery, the Weed Wench, a miraculous tool that uses simple leverage to pull out the most stubborn [...]

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My two-year-old stand of Satisfaction Orienpet lilies in late July My days as a plant snob are over. There’s room in my garden for both the brash and the understated, for flowers the size of snowflakes as well as blossoms that standout like a chorus line of bodacious beauties.  A marigold deserves my respect just [...]

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