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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Posted by Sue Kidd @ 12:15:40 pm

A reader poses the question below on what kind of grasses and trees to plan in a non functioning drainage easement. Anyone have thoughts? Reply with a comment or e-mail me at sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

I live in Milton and have an area that is an easement for drainage, but does not actually function in that manner. It's about 10 ft by 60 ft with 2 collection drains installed. I have plans to install a dry wash type run with rocks from earlier ground work. I want to plant grasses and other items that are native to WA and to provide a habitat for birds and bees. I currently have homes for mason bees and plan to install more this year. I want to get some height from the grasses and would consider fruit trees. We have an apple, and an almond tree that I'm not sure will get through this
winter.

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