General Garden Info

Weather Info

Here are some links to weather sources

Spokane National Weather Service

National Weather Service

Weather Channel

Below is a map of the plant hardiness zones for the u.s.

WATERING IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

While a little drought toughens ornamental plants and makes them better able to withstand hardships, it makes vegetables taste bad. Vegetables taste best when they're raised without stress, with all the water they want and no periods of drought.

Watering Seeds and Seedlings

Watering Established Plants

Surviving a Heat Wave

Feeding With Watering

A. Starting from Seed

1.Soak the rockwool in lukewarm water. Allow plenty of time for rockwool cubes to take up water. Remove the rockwool from the water and allow to drain. 

2. Insert seeds carefully into the holes marked out on top of the cubes. Don’t push them in too far, just enough to hide seeds. A few strands of rockwool should be teased over the hole to ensure that seeds are covered. 

Who can resist just picked home-grown vegetables? Not only are vitamins at their peak, but the taste is exquisite and wholesome, quite unlike vegetables that have been shipped hundreds of miles to your supermarket.
 
 Our New World vegetables, so-called because native Americans grew them long before the New World was settled by Europeans, are some of the most basic, delicious vegetables we can grow. Best of all, they're easy to grow! A bounty of sweet corn, snap beans and summer squash will satisfy the appetite like nothing else in the peak of summer.
 

Fingerling potatoes are turning up in the poshest places these days.  They are regular attractions on the menus of some of the country's finest restaurants, and they even made it to the very center of power: an official White House dinner.  (National Medal of Arts dinner, September 1997.)

Selecting and Planting Perennials

Small seed potatoes (1 to 2" diameter) should be planted whole. Larger seed potatoes should be cut into 2" pieces, with 2 to 3 sprouting eyes per piece, the day prior to planting. Seed pieces should be planted 10 to 14" apart and 4 to 5" deep for best production. For small new potatoes, plant seed pieces 8" apart and harvest every other hill when potatoes are small.