Thank you for helping us celebrate our 14th Anniversary

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A big giant THANK YOU to everyone that made it out to our 14th Anniversary celebration.

It was like a family reunion seeing so many of my favorite people and it was nice to meet so many new friends.

The winner for our Garden Lover Easter basket has been notified and we have a nice sized donation going out to the Tacoma Tree Foundation this week.

Thank you with all my heart to our visitors and to everyone that found us through our socials and our website.

Happy spring and we look forward to seeing you in the store again soon.

Christy 🌿

Fall is for… Weeding!

Can any other season in the Pacific Northwest be so beautiful? Fall is my favorite and while it’s gaining good traction as the season for planting, it should also be known as the season of weeding.

Every fall I get tons of emails asking me the question: what can I do to help suppress the weeds???

Fall is for Weeding
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As my old boss used to say: “You’ll need to develop a case of ass-and-elbows disease.” Because, when anyone sees you in the garden, ass-and-elbows is what they should see.

Even if you’ve mulched, or planted groundcover, or spread chemicals, or performed a voodoo ritual under the last full moon; weeds are coming to your fall garden. It is the nature of all plants to grow, bloom, and seed as if they are about to die and be gone forever… fall is the season of the seed. Tiny little life-bearers that are carried off by the winds to land right in that freshly mulched garden bed. Yeah, the one you just weeded. The one with fresh warm mulch and plenty of seasonal rain…

So weed! That’s it!

Ass-and-elbows disease
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It’s still a great time to mulch as well. After you weed and water and then weed again, but really good this time. Spread a 2-inch layer of mulch, but keep the mulch away from the base of your plants.

If you’re a Tacoma area local, my favorites in order are:

*Cascade Garden Mulch from Corliss (click here for their website).

*Dark Bark Mulch from Llyod Enterprises (click here for their website).

*Regular Medium Bark Mulch from McClain’s (click here for their website).

My last recommendation is to go treat yourself to some fall pansies and ornamental kales so you have a happy color spot to gaze on while your weeding.

Ass-and-elbows to the sky,

Christy, The Urban Gardener