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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
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Posted by Sue Kidd @ 11:23:06 am

Is your yard a tragic mess? Disgusted with that utility box that dominates your side yard? Have a flower bed in serious need of rehab?

Gig Harbor garden designer Sue Goetz is ready to help you work through your garden design dilemmas. She'll offer our readers advice on what how to fix all kinds of garden ugliness.

All you have to do is send us photos of your garden disaster. We'll select a handful of yards and publish advice for shaping up your space (no actual labor though, that's what you get to do). E-mail your pictures to gardenphotos@thenewstribune.com or mail to Sue Kidd, Lifestyle Editor, The News Tribune, 1950 S. State. St., Tacoma WA 98405.

When Goetz, owner of The Creative Gardener in Gig Harbor, worked on the project with us last summer, we called it Fix My Yard. We're planning on catching up with some of the people Goetz advised last year to see if they made any of her suggested improvements or did anything else with their garden spaces.

Stay tuned for more details, our faithful readers.

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