Work began last week on a curb bulb at Winona Ave N & N 76th St to provide a safer street crossing. The project will include a drainage swale and rain garden. Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is installing $1 million worth of Neighborhood Project Fund safety improvements this year at 31 strategic locations on [...]

Thank goodness for the sun this week, or I think Seattle would have to have been designated a rain forest!  We’re seeing a lot of mold and fungus on leaves as a result – remove damaged leaves ASAP and dispose in trash (not compost).  But all is not lost: Too many coffee grounds? I check [...]

As My Green Lake reported in April, Daniel Bagley Elementary is renovating its Outdoor Classroom and Learning Garden.   Since then, local businesses have been adding their support – and their shoulders  - to the cause. The new organic edible garden will accommodate a planting bed for each of Bagley’s 18 classrooms, and one custom-made “community table” [...]

Looking back now, I can see how the pieces came together, resulting in three kinds of blueberry plants in my border.  Plus a lingonberry.   I probably would have come home with a fig tree, but luckily the nursery had no dwarf varieties in stock during my fruit-plant-buying bender. Flashback: July 2009: My family and I [...]

If you’re not careful, your new plant could go from this: to this: How can something in a cute two-inch pot be so dangerous?  They look so innocent and fragile on the plant shelf, their tiny stalks blowing vigorously in the spring winds. But beware – there are certain plants that, once given a roothold, [...]