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I'm glad you found The Westside Gardener! This site is dedicated to all growers who live west of the Cascade Mountains. While the main focus of this site is vegetable gardening, we'll also discuss garden-related "how to" projects, herbs, fruit, and maybe even the odd flower.

I hope you find the resources on this site useful. I'll be interested to hear what you think - please send any feedback, questions, or (friendly) suggestions to

If this is your first visit, please take a minute to read some notes about this Website that I've put together.

December 23

If, like me, you live in Pierce County Washington, be sure to check out the Pierce Conservation District's 17th Annual Native Plant Sale! They offer quite a few native trees, shrubs, and ground covers at very low prices - usually sold in bundles of 10 plants. For more information visit their plant sale page.

September 14

A number of my friends and family members prefer the original (color) version of my Drumheller photo, so I went ahead and put both photos together on the page. Take a look, and let me know which version you prefer!

September 12

It isn't a garden photo in any way, shape, or form - but I am really pleased with this shot of Drumheller Fountain I took at the University of Washington.

September 3

From the Mailbag: What's eating my Rhododendron?

August 28

I've added seedling photographs for peas and Claytonia (Miner's Lettuce), and updated the Minutina page.

August 27

I don't know how useful it will be, but I've decided to start archiving older entries as they get removed from this front page. Everything from 2006 and 2007 is there. The majority of older posts are also there; but given my decidedly late start in working on this, I must admit 2003, 2004, and 2005 are not 100% complete.

August 25

We've added some new images to our Vegetable Seedling Photographs pages, and more are on the way!

August 17

New article: Midsummer Garden Notes

Older items from the front page can be found in the archives...

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