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Friday, April 11th, 2008

She's back. Yes, Sue Goetz is back. To help your yard.

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.

Categories: Fix my yard! • 2 comments

COMMENTS:

Comment by arnoldjm @ 21:08 - Friday, April 11th, 2008

I dont have any backyard nightmares...yet. I bought a house in South Tacoma almost a year ago, the previous onwer was kept a neat yard. I dont have room for a vegetable garden so I thought I would try my hand at mixing my flower beds up with my vegetables. Being new to the PNW, I have a question... When is the best time to sow seeds in the ground in this wacky climate. It never really seems to warm up and I dont want to sow to early or too late. I hope my neighbors dont mind a little urban "make due" gardening.

Comment by kamby @ 12:26 - Monday, April 14th, 2008

Rule of thumb that i use and that others have taught me is, warm weather crops in on mothers day, tomato starts, pumpkins, squash, cukes, beans, pepper starts etc. Cool weather crops by mid-early march, radishes, lettuce, brocoli, beets etc.

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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. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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