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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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Monday, March 31st, 2008
This is spring?
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 11:23:23 am

These daffodils look worse for wear after yesterday's snowfall at Willapa Bay.

I spent the weekend out at my parents' place in Pacific County. I had a big indoor painting project planned. Working indoors was a good idea, it turns out.

I woke up yesterday to find two inches of snow on the ground, my mother's daffodils frozen in place and tulip leaves buried under the snow.

Today, I called Lore Van Lierop, co-owner of Puyallup's Van Lierop Bulb Farm
http://www.vanlieropbulbfarm.com/ to ask her about snow damage. She said there were no worries. "The bulbs kind of like the snow," she said.

Van Lierop said tulips are "taking their time this year" due to the cold nights we've been having. But, they'll come up soon enough.

I'll finish this post with a shot of my mother's greenhouse after Sunday's snowstorm. It's missing part of its roof from the December storm. That'll be my first outdoor project of the year.

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