Cleaning Tomato Cages
Cleaning your tomato cages is one extra step you can take to prevent the reintroduction of blight back into the garden next spring. Learn how with this week's tip of the week!
Kidney Bean Bonanza
With cool weather upon us, it's time for soups and stews. What better way to showcase the often-neglected kidney bean (it's not just for the salad bar) than to highlight some of our favorite dishes made with this crimson legume?
I'll confess, I didn't grow kidney beans this summer, but I will someday. In the meanwhile, we buy them dry and soak them overnight to make great meals. We cook them for about 15 minutes in a pressure cooker and voila! Perfect beans.
Cooked ...
MacGyver me this: Broken Watering Can Rose
There isn't much that can't be fixed with duct tape. Garden tools are no exception. While I wouldn't trust a loose-headed pick-axe after wrapping it with several rounds of shiny silver duct tape, I would trust it to fix my reliable yet cheap, plastic Rite-Aid watering can with a broken rose attachment.
Plastic is, as we know, forever. Except in the case when it photo-degrades. Plastic pots or tools become brittle and cracked, and eventually useless for their intended purpose. ...
Cold and Flu Remedies
It’s cold and flu season, and whether you hole yourself up in a far-off cabin or mix and mingle with all sorts of folk, here are a few tips to help you get through!
The New 2011 Spring/Summer Organic Seed Collection
This being the beginning of the holiday season, and the first day of Hanukkah, it felt only fitting to unveil the all-new 2011 Spring/Summer Organic Seed Collection from the
Gardenerd Store. Read about the great choices for your spring garden (makes a great gift or stocking stuffer!) and see why we chose them for your garden.
Who needs gold coins when you can have gardener's gold like this instead:
All photos
courtesy of Seeds ...
courtesy of Seeds ...
Kohlrabi – the Alien Vegetable
As most brassicas go, broccoli is pretty attractive, and cabbage conjures comforting thoughts of Irish stews and Asian stir-fry dishes. There's one brassica, however, that makes people double-take when they see it on the shelves of the produce aisle: kohlrabi.
Kohlrabi looks something like a broccoli stem that had its molecules reorganized in the transporter (sorry, couldn't avoid the Trekkie reference). It has leaves like broccoli, but instead of the long stalk, it has a bulb at the base of ...
Gardening –the Happy Pill
Did you know that recent studies have shown that gardening actually makes you happier? This week's tip of the week explores the therapeutic benefits of gardening!
Holiday Feast Ideas
Forget the turkey; it's all about the sides. This week's tip of the week showcases some of our favorite ways to prepare fall veggies for Thanksgiving!
Pea Protection
Last week we talked about how to grow peas. Ordinarily it's easy as pie, but what do you do when creatures of the night and/or sky make it their business to snatch up all your delicate sprouts before they have a chance to take hold in the soil?
Back to the Ranch – Huntington Style
I'd been dying to see the secret Huntington Ranch for over a year. Back then, I read an article in the Huntington Library and Garden's monthly newsletter about the development of a new vegetable garden on the property. I searched and searched each time I went to try and find its secret location to no avail.
Then an invitation to an all-day symposium for professional garden nerds hit my inbox, and when I saw that the events of the day ...