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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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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Posted by Sue Kidd @ 02:20:52 pm

This just in, another reader question:

Do you know the best way to prune back large pampas grass and New Zealand flax?

Anyone have thoughts?

My neighbors and I attacked a gynormous flax last summer. It's on the west side of her yard. We tried to prune carefully, removing the dead stalks, then trying to reasonably trim the outer layers. The thing was just overgrown and taking up too much space. It wound up looking kind of funky. I have a flax in my back yard, sort of newish, but I imagine it will be a gigantic mess in the next few growing seasons. It is a large variety, not a dwarf. Advice appreciated.

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