Pat Munts

After a long, dark winter, the appearance of early spring bulbs like tulips and daffodils are a welcome, colorful harbinger of spring.

By Pat Munts For The Spokesman-Review By the time you are reading this, we will have had our first killing frost.

It's been a long, beautiful fall this year. The cool weather tripped the trees to color up and then hold their leaves for a beautiful show of reds, oranges and yellows.

Over the past 10 years, David Benscoter and the Lost Apple Project have been exploring the history of Eastern Washington through the apple orchards planted by early pioneers.

We are winding down what has been a crazy weather and gardening season. If some of you newer gardeners feel like the season was somewhat of a failure, rest assured even those of us who have gardened here for decades had major failures.

As we travel into the holiday season, it’s interesting to look at the history of some of our traditions that give meaning to the season.

Like many of you I will enjoy today with family, good food and celebrating all the bounty with which I have been blessed.

The internet is full of quick and cheap homemade fixes for gardening problems. In a few cases, the homemade recipes might work, but often they don’t and come with side effects that are worse than the original problem.

By Pat Munts For The Spokesman-Review Looking after your soil's health is the most important task a gardener can have.

Most of us who garden have a love-hate relationship with deer, affectionately referred to as the “hooved marauders” or some other term I can't write here.