tables on the street with a sign that says "free plant swap" bottom text says "MAY 3 free garden starts and stuff swap"

text image Sunday May 32026 at 2 pm-7 pm N lidgerwood st, Spokane WA

text image 'No selling! swap or free things. tables will be set up in the corner at E crown and N lidgerwood. take what you need and leave what you don't. if you don't have much/anything to give, but need some plant starts, that's ok too. come and get some seed or starts! I will likely have tomatoes, squashes and herbs started as well as other plants.'

a photograph of a large number of tomato seedlings and summer squash seedlings tags only after this line not description #spokane #spokanegarden #wagarden #zone7a #gardeningfeed #freestuff #spokanedoesntsuck

spokane garden free table day
May 3!

i do this every year. i don't need cups or containers this year, but can use donations of starter soil/fixins, straw.

I'll have tomato, basil, herb starts! possibly cukes & squarsh. free if you need em.

Corner of e crown and N lidgerwood.
🌱 #spokanegarden

a branch of an apple tree, with a graft union healed over. it is "Johnny" Apple, with lamb abbey grafted to it

little cups with tiny basil seedlings in them

a tray full of baby tobacco seedlings

a lavender plant that survived the Spokane Winter

all right, more of that
#spokanegarden #gardensky 🌱

a photo of the inside of a greenhouse with plants on shelves

friends and family are starting to ask what garden stuff presents i want for my March birthday but i have Too Much Garden Stuff and what i really need is help setting up for the season!! most of my people live at a distance so i really have no help at all
#spokanegarden

yard ornaments and a fake owl and rocks and leaves all covered with a light frost

really been frosty and cold.
#gardensky #spokanegarden

several potted trees including a meyer lemon with many lemons on it

in the greenhouse. #gardensky #spokanegarden

a garden with two ragged raised beds made of scrap wood

a shed with a raised bed in front of it, with angled sides

a bike underneath some boards casually leaned on a fence

picked a bit of kohlrabi and leaves today but mostly working on building these raised boxes for spring. still don't have the lid on the cold frame. made a lil roof for the bike so the saddle bags don't get soaked.

#gardensky #spokanegarden #zone7a

a wet, bedraggled garden

i know it's ending season when i can see the back fence again

#spokanegarden #zone7a #gardensky 🌱

someone's hand holding up a withered sweet potato vine

green lush sweet potato vines

my sweet potatoes are starting to give in to the cold nights. a few are still going strong and a few are yellowed and ragged.

as soon as the top dies back I'll dig them out! i know there are some in there.

#spokanegarden #zone7a #gardensky #gardeningfeed 🌱

I'm using #spokanegarden as the tag for the feed, it can be in the alt text of images too.
if you have ideas for this feed let me know! it's for anyone in the region.
all are welcome, whatever you're trying to grow. trees, houseplants, veggie, flowers.
if you want to swap seed feel free to post up!

SPOKANE and #spokanevalley and #couerdalene and other locals!
i know you guys have plants and gardens.
i know there's more than ten of us!
reply with "add to spokane garden" to join this feed.
i want to see plants! and trade seeds and scion and divisions! year round.

#gardensky 🌱 #spokanegarden

a picture of stalks cut up in water in a slow cooker i cut up and crack the stalks of the sorghum a week after cutting the grain heads. always before frost, which can make them bitter. cover with water and a slow cook them on high for 6 hours, then on low for 3 days. i top up the water so they are always covered. they will turn brown and soft, and the water will turn light brown by the end.

a photo of a large pot on the stove, filled with browned stalks and water. i then move all the sorghum and liquid to a bigger pot on the stove. i crack and break the stalks more, and on a low boil or simmer, cook until the stalks fall apart when handled. by the end, the liquid will be dark brown and the stalks will be mushy.

a photo of a Dutch oven with dark brown liquid being stirred with a wooden spoon after simmering, i strain all the liquid into a Dutch oven. you want a wide pan or pot for this part. on low heat, i cook down the liquid into thick syrup, stirrring pretty often. it will thicken into a smooth, very dark syrup like molasses almost. this can take a few days on low heat.

a photograph of sorghum grain heads, in a white 5 gallon bucket, with loose grain at the bottom. i thresh the grain this way- i lay the heads out to dry on a cookie sheet for a day or so. then put them head down in a foodsafe bucket. whenever I've got to watch the news i take my aggression out by banging the heads against the walls of the bucket, this knocks all the ready grain off, into the bottom. threshing this way keeps all the grain contained and i can do it sitting on the couch. after the heads are all empty I'll winnow this by pouring the grains back and forth between two buckets on a windy day. occasionally I'll smash the grain with my hands or a paddle to get the chaff off.

the ill-equipped sorghum process!
i love sorghum syrup. my partner likes the grain in hot cereal for breakfast. i grow a patch every year.
#sorghum #smallharvests #preservingfood #gardensky #spokanegarden 🌱 #zone7a

description of process in Alt text per usual!

two baskets, a flat white basket with tomatillos, peppers small squashes, mini cantaloupe, and a few green tomatoes. a brown basket with a handle holds sorghum grain and stalks

today turned into tomatillo and baby squash rescue and pepper rescue

tomorrow night is the killing frost so tomatoes tomorrow all day i suppose. got the last of the sorghum too.

#gardensky #smallharvests #zone7a #spokanegarden

a red kuri squash, many small summer squashes, peppers, a pear, and a few eggplant in a flat tan basket, in horrible yellow lighting

harvested the entire tobacco patch and picked some of the last peppers and baby squash for the season. tomorrow is tomato rescue day i think. porch lighting from hell
#spokanegarden #zone7a #smallharvests #gardensky

someone in a black jacket holding up two massive tromboncino squashes almost as tall as them a tan dog walks across in the foreground

half of my ripe trombo harvest. the biggest is 4'9" (i am 4'11")
monstrous war clubs!

#spokanegarden #zone7a #smallharvests #gardensky 🌱

#spokanegarden anyone got a willow tree?

a brown basket full of sorghum stalks and grain heads next to a flat tan basket with small green tromboncinos, cucumbers, peppers, beans and tomatoes. next to the baskets are a pumpkin and a large orange mature tromboncino.

the rush before frost. Saturday night i think it's the cold night. i got all the sorghum in at least, and I'll be picking more peppers and breaking tomatoes today. greenhouse is ready for the dormant plants.
#gardensky #zone7a #spokanegarden #smallharvests ,🌱

a flat tan and brown oval basket on an old wooden floor. the basket has a white acorn squash, tromboncino, beans, tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, basil, a small pear and a pattypan squash in it.

today i have to pick greens. i have to do something with all the green (purple) beans.
that's a "mashed potatoes" squash, the seed came from sandhill preservation.

#gardensky #zone7a #smallharvest #spokanegarden

two flat baskets. one has sorghum grain heads in it. the other is sitting inside that, and has tomatoes, peppers, beans, herbs, asparagus, figs, cucumbers, tomatillos, mushrooms and a few tiny wild strawberries in it

today's #smallharvest. finally a melon. sorghum still ripening. beans keep going

a few autumn asparagus in there. i didn't pick that patch this spring, and it's making some more ferns so i took a few. lots of herbs today too

#spokanegarden #zone7a #gardensky 🌱

a tan and brown basket with summer squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans and rhubarb in it. there is a delicata squash on top

today's basket

#gardensky #spokanegarden #smallharvest

a large orange tromboncino squash over two tan and brown baskets. In one are greens and herbs and a blue pumpkin. In the other are tomatoes, peppers, small summer squashes, cucumbers, beans, tomatillos, and a radish, and a few nasturtium flowers

this pumpkin was 8 feet up on a pole thing and launched itself at my head
i love both my new baskets so much
#gardensky #zone7a #spokanegarden #smallharvests

a tan flat basket with patty pan squashes, purple beans, peppers, tomatoes, an apple, a cucumber, and a head of sorghum in it

today's #smallharvest including the first ready sorghum grains. the stalks need to stand another week after the grain is cut. I'm glad it's starting this early before frost this year
#gardensky #zone7a #spokanegarden #sorghum

someone in glasses and a sun dress stands in an unkempt garden holding a giant tromboncino squash

i did one more thing in the garden today despite being worn out, and it was worth it
#naturalweaponry #bigfish
#gardensky #zone7a #spokanegarden #smallharvest

a tan flat basket filled with beans, cucumbers, herbs, tomatoes, tomatillos, radish pods, peppers, a fig and a sunflower

a small day, not feeling well still.

#smallharvest #spokanegarden #zone7a #gardensky 🌱

a tan basket with figs, herbs, cucumbers and marigolds in it. above it is a white basket with corn, beans, summer squashes, peppers, tomatillos, sunflowers and tomatoes in it. beside the baskets is a pile of large pale green tobacco leaves, the top leaf is yellowed.

i really like the two baskets.
some tobacco ready to cure too.
#gardensky #smallharvest #zone7a #spokanegarden 🌱

a basket with a crookneck squash, a green apple, rhubarb, peppers, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, sweet potato vine tips, herbs, a few corn and a few marigolds, a single fat little carrot and one fig in it.

heading to the shop to see if there's
1. a walk-in
2. my ink order
but i picked in the garden for an hour before all this and I'm pretty happy with today's stuff.
i got a new extra basket just for greens, I'll be breaking that out in a week i think.
#gardensky #zone7a #spokanegarden 🌱 #gardenpnw

laboring over grapes today

some were yellow and some pink and we mixed those and it's beautiful jelly

jelly, concentrated juice. cowboy candy. dilly beans. and some pickles.

#gardensky #canning #harvests #spokanegarden

a flat basket with sunflowers, red corn, tomatoes, tromboncinos with flowers still attached, tomatillos, apples, beans, a cucumber, a peach, a few figs and one tiny bunch of grapes in it

not a lot today, i wiped out early from the heat and sun. corn is starting to be good. last peach. last trailman apples. first celeriac.

#spokanegarden #gardensky #zone7a #gardening 🌱 #harvests

a flat basket with summer squash, corn, greens, beans, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, small eggplants, and a few flowers in it

the daily- an apple in there

#gardensky #zone7a #spokanegarden 🌱

a hand holding a mug that says "range" in front of a garden owl, hand shovel, in a garden full of overgrown plants

oh Spokane. once it's not full doom sun it's nice out. I'm still not gonna weed the garden, I'm done with that for the year. just letting it grow wild now and clambering around to pick stuff.

#gardensky #spokanegarden @rangemedia.co

a flat basket with tromboncinos, chicory, cucumbers, tomatoes, kohlrabi, rhubarb, peppers, beans, figs, herbs and a few flowers in it. there's also one undersized ear of corn

all that and an armload of tobacco to cure

already hot out there.

#spokanegarden #zone7a #gardensky 🌱