ASK A MASTER GARDENER: July garden tips
ASK A MASTER GARDENER: July garden tips
* Radishes, lettuce and spinach bolt and turn bitter in July heat. Remove them and replace with cauliflower and cabbage for fall harvest* Water gardens early in the day and at the base of plants.* Sidedress tomatoes, peppers and other long-season crops with fertilizer early this month—not too heavily or you’ll end up with luxuriant foliage and late or little fruit.* Mosquitoes breed in …
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Bright ideas for ‘seedless’ berry pies
Longtime Forum friend Rosie Batcheldor of Lake Stevens recently mentioned she’s looking forward to what looks to be a bumper crop of evergreen blackberries this year. “I like them in pies,” she said, “but a lot of people don’t because of the seeds.
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