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Dig in to Summer Vegetables
This time of the year Sky Nursery is especially overflowing with summer vegetables. We carry many different types of vegetables in all sizes, colors, heirlooms and hybrids. Read more.

Capture Summer with Flavorful Berries
A beautiful berry plucked warm from the sun and popped straight into your mouth is one of the best ways to capture summer's sweetness. Read more.

When Will You Get in your Basil?
Sky carries a good assortment of culinary herbs year round. However, our selection grows from early spring through summer, with a few herbs preferring the warmer months. Read more.

Grow a Garden You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
In the Northwest we can feed our bodies year round with relative ease. We can grow root crops, leafy crops, and fruiting crops. Read more.

Raised Bed Garden Construction
Raised beds are one of the most efficient ways to garden in the Northwest. Raising beds allows for better drainage and allows soil to heat up faster and stay looser, which promotes rapid plant and root growth as well as easier weeding. Read more.

Harvest a Wealth of Winter Vegetables
When you are walking, cycling or driving through your neighborhood you may have noticed something different: many gardeners have transformed a drab median into a vital, bountiful vegetable garden. Read more.

Summer Victory Gardens
Last issue we talked a little about victory gardens and cool-season vegetable growing here in the Northwest...Now it's on to warm season veggies! Read more.

Our Berry Best
If you'd like to enjoy fistfuls of mouthwatering berries this summer - and for many summers to come - get your berries planted now! Read more.

Dig for Plenty
Americans are once again taking an active interest in vegetable gardening, but this time for more varied reasons. So where can we start? Read more.

Noteworthy Fruit Trees for 2009
With everyday expenses continuing to climb and each dollar having to stretch further, we're all trying to find ways to save. I know from experience that growing your own fruits and vegetables can make a huge difference...Read more.

Raised Bed Garden Construction
Growing your own food is becoming more important to a lot of us for a host of reasons. Read more.

Enjoying Fall's Abundance...Later
With food prices going up, saving fall's overabundance to enjoy through the winter becomes more important. Read more.

Preparing Your Vegetable Patch for Next Year's Bounty
As you harvest the last of summer's bounty, it's time to think about preparing for next year. Read more.

Fall Fruit Tree Care: An Ounce of Prevention
With its cooler days and longer nights autumn is the season to enjoy the fruits of your labors, literally. It is also the time to take steps to ensure that next year will prove to be as productive if not more so. Read more.

A Love Affair with Herbs
I've fallen in love with herbs. Just as with a romantic flame, when the initial excitement begins to wane, there is still more to learn about, appreciate, and enjoy. Read more.

A Bounty of Berries
Purchasing vegetables at the grocery store may pose a few questions: How far did this pound of beets travel? ... Oh, to harvest flavorful produce from the healthy soil of your own vegetable garden. Read more.

Grow a Mouthwatering Menu
It's berry potting season at Sky Nursery. If you're a berry lover, now is the time to envision which delicious berries you'd like to be harvesting this summer...Read more.

The Citrus in Winter
If your Improved Meyer Lemon doesn't quite nestle on your coffee table, not to worry. You may be able to keep it outside year round! Read more.

Passionate about Peppers
Trying to pick a pepper to please your palate? Peppers - sweet, mild, medium, or hot - in a plethora of colors are prepared by many different cultures around the globe. Read more.

Bean to Brew: Coffee as a Houseplant
Coffea Arabica may try your patience for six, or even ten, years before you brew that first pot of "homegrown" coffee. In the meantime,...Read more.

The Strawberry Report
The intoxicating scent of ripe strawberries immediately takes me back to the days of my youth...Read more.

Spaghetti Squash & Company
Zucchini shaped like bowling balls? Winter squash with flesh that separates into spaghetti-like strands when cooked? Read more.

Enliven with Lemon
We are not restricted to tropical trees for the fresh taste and aroma of lemon. Excite your senses with exotic citrus fragrance and flavor ... Read more.

Cool as a Cucurbita
I've always considered myself pretty cool and savvy when it came to vegetables...But the first time one of my vegetable suppliers offered me lemon cukes… Read more.

Perennial…Vegetables?
Perennial vegetables, you ask? That's right! A vegetable that keeps coming back, year after year after year….Read more.

March Veggie Starts
Tired of high prices for fresh greens at the grocery store? Too many holiday goodies got you thinking thin for summer? Read more.

The Veggie Gardener's Best Friend
This time of year, the days are short enough to give you an excuse to head - or stay - indoors. Put up those worn out feet for some much deserved rest and think about gardening...Read more.

Tomatoes R Us
Any way you slice it, we have a tomato variety to suit your space and amuse your taste buds. Read more.

Sweet & Sour Additions to Your Garden
Anyone for a little gooseberry fool or a jostaberry tart? How about some delicious currant jelly? Read more.

Tantalizing Tomatoes
Close your eyes and remember back to August, holding a sun-warmed tomato in your hand. The aroma of that tomato is unlike anything else and the flavor is an explosion in your mouth. Read more.

Planning the Home Orchard
Nothing is quite so satisfying as freshly picked fruit, and right now is a great time to start your home orchard. How do you start? Read more.

Raspberries
Raspberries are an ideal Northwest fruit, thriving in our mild winters and cool summers. Read more.

New Strawberries for 2004
Is there anything more enjoyable than a bowl of fresh homegrown strawberries in the summer? Read more.

Marjoram for the Masses
Called the darling of fine chefs, marjoram is an exquisitely aromatic herb. Read more.

Perennial Vegetables
Gardeners who want some permanence in their vegetable garden, consider Asparagus, Artichokes or horseradish! Read more.

Strawberry Fields... Forever?
Gazing out the window of my circa 1902 farmhouse in Richmond Beach, I'm trying to imagine my homestead surrounded by acres and acres of strawberry fields instead of massive houses. Read more.

Citrus
Citrus species make beautiful houseplants with the added advantage of bearing edible fruit. Read more.

Holy Basil Batman!
Robin's right! Ocimum sanctum (Holy or Sacred Basil) is just one of the many varieties of basil Sky Nursery carries. Read more.

Create Your Own Label: Vines, Wines, and Beers
Yes, Martha, you can grow your own grapes and hops—and make your own "private label" wine and beer—in the Puget Sound region. Read more.

Preparing Your Garden for Spring Planting - Hup-Ho!
If location, location, location is everything (gardens included) then soil, soil, soil follows closely. Read more.

Asian Pears for the Maritime Northwest
Although Washington is known as apple country, our climate also favors the Asian Pear. Read more.

Tomato Tales: And the Winners Are . . .
Many thanks to our readers who responded to our request for information about their favorite tomato variety. Read more.

Berry Delicious Small Fruits at Sky!
Have you ever considered growing berries and other small fruits in your home garden? Read more.

The Not So Humble Potato
No matter how it's sliced, the potato is the most widely cultivated vegetable in the world. Read more.

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