Well, it's that time again. Time to get on your walking shoes or bicycle and head out to see some fantastic, clever landscaping in west side Los Angeles. The Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase is just a month away, and will be featuring 80 houses (impossible to see them all, but you can sure try) that focus on either native plants and drought tolerant landscapes, edible gardens, or energy efficient features like solar power or rain barrels.
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Several years ago, when I started getting serious about Gardenerd, I met Billy Goodnick. Billy is a fellow gardenerd in Santa Barbara with... well, let's just say a lot of experience in the realm of landscaping and gardening. He was so supportive of me branching out of my own, and we kept in touch ever since.
Now, Billy has scored the coolest job writing for Fine Gardening Magazine's blog. Get this - Fine Gardening hired him because they saw ...
We're heading into our first (and most likely only) trade show of the year. You can come visit the Gardenerd.com booth, #106, to get your burning gardening questions answered, enter for a chance to win an Ultimate Garden Bag, and pick up some of your favorite Gardenerd Gear at ...
At the beginning of November I attended the 3-day Grow BioIntensive workshop in Willits, CA. It blew my mind. In fact, it took my brain out of my
head, turned it inside out and put it back in. What is Grow BioIntensive, you ask? Well, let me attempt to explain it in less than three days:
Grow BioIntensive is a method of gardening/farming that combines French Intensive, which useshexagonal plant spacing"2">as well as double-digging ...
For those who don't know, Gardenerd.com has partnered with School Nutrition Plus and the Woolly Pocket Company to install Woolly Pocket wall vegetable gardens in schools throughout Los Angeles and Arizona.
Awhile ago, my husband and I decided to put a hold on our backyard design project until the economy levels off. This of course took place after we had ripped out most of the existing plants and installed drainage and irrigation materials. So we had a lovely expanse of dirt we were perfectly willing to live with (which many students have seen if you've come to a class at the house and test garden).
Of course, what happens when you have a large expanse of dirt? You get weeds.
We needed mulch to cover the dirt. Lots of ...
Just caught sight of a post on the LA Times Blog in the Home Section about our upcoming Fall Garden Planning Workshop. Check it out here:
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Gardenerd.com has partnered with the Woolly Pocket Company and School Nutrition Plus to create a pilot program for school gardens that not only integrates the garden into the curriculum, but gives the children something to take into the cafeteria too! Over the last two days we converted an abandoned garden area on the campus of Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School into a revitalized growing space that includes a vertical garden!
We started with weeds, old raised beds, tired soil and lots of odds and ends (we even found a shoe). There was a lemon tree starving for sunlight ...
This just came to me via one of my clients. If you happen to still need tomato seedlings now is your chance to get them cheap in the Los Angeles area:Hi All,
Got some exciting news today. It's official, the White House is going to install a vegetable garden on March 20th, the first day of spring!
For those who have been following the push to get the Obamas to plant a victory garden, www.eattheview.org has been a major influence in making this happen, along with Alice Waters and many others. Petitions were signed, letters were sent, and the new administration listened. Here is the article from the New York Times today:
Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden
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