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Mulching, watering, soil amendment, and other foundational landscape practices.
Your fig variety determines your pruning method. Learn the breba vs. main crop distinction, one-in-three renewal pruning for Desert King and Lattarula, hard cutback for Chicago Hardy, and summer pinching to triple your harvest.
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Soil temperature, not the calendar, determines when seeds germinate and roots establish. Learn to measure it, interpret it, and use it to plant vegetables at the right time in the Puget Sound region.
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National spring lawn advice assumes winter dormancy. Puget Sound lawns skip that step. Here is what to do about moss, compaction, and clay soil damage instead.
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Your grape variety determines your pruning method. Learn spur pruning vs. cane pruning, wet-climate timing to prevent trunk disease, and a variety-by-variety reference table for the Puget Sound lowlands.
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Clematis confusion starts the moment you bring one home. You've got a beautiful vine covered in flowers, and then someone tells you to prune it. Cut it back hard? Light prune? Wait until next year?...
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You plant a tree in October. The rain starts in November, and you think you're done. The soil stays wet through winter and spring. By June, you've forgotten about that tree entirely. Then July hits,...
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You've probably seen it: a perfectly good Japanese maple butchered into a sphere. No branches visible. No architecture. No grace. Just a dense green meatball. This is the #1 pruning mistake in...
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