A Bounty of Peas
Get your beans and peas off to a great start with this week's tip.
Redwood Seed Flat Fun
As a birthday present to myself, I purchased some redwood seed flats from Bountiful Gardens, the home of Ecology Action in Willits, CA. These redwood seed flats allow gardeners to start seeds very close together without the occasionally tedious limitation of trays with cells. These open "half flats" (which I purchased instead of the full size flats that are twice as large and twice as heavy) can hold up to 87 seedlings in the same amount of space ...
Wildflowers in Clay Soil
A recent question came in:
"Hi Gardenerd!, I enjoyed your podcast about the wildflowers, and as I already had mine purchased, I have a more specific question. Mar Vista = Clay. After weeding, can the seeds just be scattered or does the soil need amending? I bought a Xeriscape blend, and when I started weeding, I was SHOCKED by the density of clay, wet clay at that after all this rain; but, it does drain as there is no puddling. Raised beds for wildflowers ...
Make Babies for Valentine’s Day
One of the best way to insure diversity in your garden is to start your own seeds indoors, rather than be limited to what's available at nurseries. Timing is everything and now's the time!
Get Your Wildflowers Growin’
Get native! Your garden will love you for it. This week's tip helps you get some wildflowers and native plants into your garden.
Death of a Garden
A great question came in this week:
"Hi, I started a 8x10 garden in my backyard full of veggies and herbs this past summer, yet everything has died except for a few herbs because I did nothing when it froze here in Dallas...What should I have done if anything to have saved it and how can I start growing things now and what is best to plant. Thanx from newbie gardener.... "
You're not alone this winter. In fact, unless ...
Fine Gardening’s Review of the Go Green Expo
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 ...
Bee Great – Pollinate!
Get buzzing with this weeks tip, which will give you specific plants for your zone to attract pollinators.
When Aphids Attack!
A great question came in this week from a cauliflower gardener:
"I was so excited to have just harvested my first cauliflower! It was big, beautiful and infested with little grayish white bugs! (aphids, I think?). I couldn't salvage it because there were literally hundreds embedded just beneath the tops of the florets. I have several other cauliflower plants growing, some are new, some almost ready to harvest. Is there anything I can do to prevent future infestations?"
First of all, congratulations ...
Gardenerd on KFWB 980 Talk Radio
During the Go Green Expo on the weekend of January 22-24, 2010, Gardenerd.com got a little media attention. Cindy Dole of Home Wizards was at the Go Green Expo interviewing a few people about their efforts to help green the planet. I was delighted to be invited to her booth for an interview.
On a side note, there was a terrific couple who happened to be driving around listening to the radio that afternoon. When they heard the interview,