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Digging in: Why gardening with kids is worth the mess
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Digging in: Why gardening with kids is worth the mess

  • By KELSEY SOLTYSIAK OSU Hood River County Extension Central Gorge Master Gardener Volunteer
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Years later, gardening with my own toddler has become one of my favorite parts of parenting. She will refuse a tomato at the dinner table but happily take bites straight from the garden. There’s something about being outside, hands in the soil, that changes the experience entirely.

Weed of the month: English Holly
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Weed of the month: English Holly

  • By Hood River Soil & Water Conservation District

The December Weed of the Month is English holly (Ilex aquifolium), a fitting invasive for the season when we “deck the halls with boughs of ho…

Weed of the Month: English ivy
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Weed of the Month: English ivy

  • By Hood River Soil & Water Conservation District
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English ivy is a rapidly growing evergreen vine. You typically see it growing on hillsides, climbing trees, growing over fences and up the sid…

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Weed of the month: English ivy
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Weed of the month: English ivy

  • JORDAN KIM
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English ivy is a rapidly growing evergreen vine typically seen growing on hillsides, climbing trees, growing over fences and up the sides of houses. It out-competes other plants for soil, sunlight and water. English ivy can kill large trees by suffocating their trunks and weighing down branches. A mature English ivy plant can weigh up to 2,100 pounds, with trunk-like stems that can be nearly a foot thick.