Back to the Roots with Mushrooms
Over the past month or so, we've been testing out the Back to the Roots Oyster Mushroom kit, and we're eating the results.
Ask Gardenerd: How to Build a Mini Greenhouse
A fun question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week:
" I have a big south facing back porch. I would love to make a small greenhouse where I could start seeds and, maybe, even let herbs [over]winter. Do you have ideas for making my own greenhouse?"
There are many options, from a mini-greenhouse to the full-fledged, brick and mortar English greenhouse. I used to create my own mini-greenhouses by taking tomato cages, laying them on their sides ...
Alfalfa Gardens
The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for March 1, 2012. Alfalfa is a perennial crop with long taproots, and once established it can be cut back regularly like grass for a continued supply of green material for the compost bin.
Cabbage and Caramelized Onion Soup
'Tis the season to harvest cabbage, and we've been on a campaign to find tasty uses for it this month. Our crop consists of Vertus Savoy cabbage (with seeds from Bountiful Gardens). It grew well in Southern California, and it was a delight to finally be able to grow an open-pollinated variety of savoy cabbage (hard to find).
Here is another savory and delicious way to incorporate this healthy brassica ...
2012 Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase
Spring is less than a month away, and that means that garden tours will soon be populating our calendars.
February To-Do List
The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for February 24, 2012
New Edible Landscape for a Cottage
Back in November, I got a call from a woman who wanted to turn her front and back yard into an edible landscape. She had seen me on Food For Thought with Claire Thomas, and felt instinctively that Gardenerd was the right hire for the job.
We worked together to come up with ideas: moving existing baby fruit trees to permanent homes in the front yard, adding a vegetable garden and more fruit trees in the backyard. She ...
Spring Garden Planning Workshop This Saturday
You've riffled through all of those seed catalogs, you've taken a survey of your seed collection and filled in the blanks. Now what?
Where will everything go this season? How will you find enough room? What about crop rotation and companion planting?
With all these things to think about, planning your spring garden may feel overwhelming. It's supposed to be fun. We can help.
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Fried Green Tomatoes – in Winter?
Yes, Dorothy, there still are tomatoes in February - if you live in Los Angeles. It's one of the many oddities of living in a warm winter climate. Up until last week, we were picking tomatoes from a volunteer tomato that had entwined itself through a giant Cecil Brunner rose, but with recent pruning, it all came to a delicious end.
The vine had ...
Chicken Keeping
The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for February 17, 2012