Welcome to the Timber Garden! Toby and I purchased our first home on 3 acres outside of McCall, ID in October of 2014. We couldn’t wait to put in a permanent garden and fruit trees! We had both grown up gardening with our families and tried to grow something wherever…
It’s February in McCall, which means there is 3 feet of snow between me and any garden soil. To keep our spirits up, a bunch of my fellow gardeners brought their seed stashes over for an exchange. There was a lot of seed swapping! I ended up with four different…
It’s the middle of February in Idaho. In some places, that is early enough to start thinking about the snow melting and the sun shining and greenery pressing up through the ground. Here, the snow might not melt until May and the greenery knows better. My fellow gardeners and I…