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Gardening

Revamp Your Gardens for Late Summer, Early Fall

I need to take a hint from my neighbor to the north. She constantly deadheads or cuts the dead flowers off her petunias and dahlias. She ruthlessly pulls out annuals that are gangly, beat-up-looking and, in general, beyond their prime. I took a page from her book and recently deep-sixed my fourth of July Ace […]

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Outdoor Activities

Hootchies, Spoons, Bait, all drawing strikes from Chinook and Coho

Salmon fishing has picked up in the San Juans for Chinook and Coho. Hootchies, spoons and bait all seem to be drawing strikes. Fish the tide changes for Kings, and haunt the tide rips out deeper for Silvers. The fish in Marine Area 7 will either be East, looking to head up the Samish, Skagit […]