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Kim Ries-Ashley’s “spaghetti garden,” where she’s started growing the tomatoes, onions and herbs for a great pasta sauce. Once the weather warms up the plants can be moved outside into the sun.

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Starting a garden from scratch
April 15, 2022 1:15 a.m.

Starting a garden from scratch

Tips from a local pro

MOSES LAKE — So you have some lawn just sitting there in the sun. Maybe the kids are too old to play in the backyard, or maybe you knocked down a shed or sold the car that had been sitting there forever. Whatever the reason, you’d like to put it to good use and raise some veggies. How do you start? “To tackle a garden where you have an existing lawn, what I do is I build a raised bed on the existing patch of grass,“ said Kim Ries Ashley, a passionate gardener and owner of Blue Rouge Garden and Nursery in Moses Lake. Pressure-treated 2x6s work well...