Good Gardening

In this month's Living Less Unsustainably, there's nothing like a heatwave to make you realize how hot it is - and motivate you to keep your home cool with as little energy use and climate impact as possible.

The tendrils that beans, grapes, and even some less desirable plants - like bindweed - send up as they strive to reach new heights really seem to validate the idea that plants are creatures with purpose, and consciousness.

In this month's Good Gardening, KLCC's John Fischer explores how vegetable gardening offers more than fresh, low-cost produce—revealing seasonal patterns, supporting wellness, and deepening your connection to nature.

John Fischer loves growing vegetables from seed, but there are crops where he uses starts - sometimes for the plant's needs, other times for his.

In this month's installment of Living Less Unsustainably, KLCC's John Fischer contemplates how important it is to be understanding of different ways people do things in different places, especially when it comes to sustainability practices.

Keeping your trees low and pickable is a lifelong process, but if life got too busy and the trees got too tall, you'll need to take drastic measures to get trees back to short ladder picking height.

In this installment of Good Gardening, John Fischer explains when to follow the out with the old, in with the new garden strategy.

As the steady winter rains end really end the summer garden season, it's a good time to look back at what worked, failed, and surprised you so next years garden can be better - or if there were a lot of failures, not as disappointing.

In this episode of KLCC's Good gardening, John Fischer tells us about how the seeds of many squash are wonderful and full of protein. Pumpkin, Butternut, Acorn, and spaghetti squash seeds are all well suited to roasting.

An infested apple won't store well, but it can be salvaged with a little knife work to be consumed fresh, dried, or made into sauce or pies.

Oregon is the Beaver State, but might better be called the berry state.

When it comes to gardening and cooking, use what you have. And be creative in both your cooking, and your growing.