Growing Squash with Anna Peach
Growing Squash with our podcast guest, Anna Peach
Anna dons borrowed festival garb at the Heirloom Expo 2018. We chatted about powdery mildew, giant pumpkin techniques and more.
Podcast: Growing Squash with Anna Peach
I met Anna Peach years ago at the Heirloom Expo, so it's only fitting that we recorded a podcast at this year's Expo. Anna is a one-woman winter squash powerhouse, growing pumpkins and gourds for restaurants in Hawaii on her quarter-acre farm, Squash and Awe. Anna's research and persistence paid off, when she set out to grow pumpkins on an island plagued with pests and diseases (at the time Hawaii was importing 97% of their squash because they couldn't grow…
The last of our Black Futsu pumpkins are ready for harvest. It's pie time!
Wordless Wednesday: Fall Takes Over
Fall is here, cooler days are on the horizon and fall planting is well under way. (Full disclosure: I wrote this before election results came in so I'm assuming we'll all need a palette cleanser after all the stress.) Here are some highlights from the Gardenerd Test Garden this week.
image courtesy of Piedmont Environmental Alliance.
Election Day 2018: Vote for the Environment!
It's Election Day 2018, and we're heading out to vote first thing in the morning. Then we'll be gardening, pruning, weeding, doing anything to distract us from the long wait before the results come in. We're just posting this quick note to say, GO VOTE! And make sure you... Vote for the Environment Whichever way you vote, make sure your candidates support environmental protections for our planet. It's the only planet we've got, and our elected officials must agree with…
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Become a Patron of Gardenerd with Patreon
2018 marks the 10-year anniversary of Gardenerd's transition into a full-fledged business. It all began in 2001, even though our blog posts and podcasts only date back to 2005-2007. Since then, we've answered your questions through Ask Gardenerd, posted free tips and tricks on The Gardenerd Blog, and doled out free gardening tidbits on The Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. We created a YouTube channel to reach even more gardenerds, which has more than 11,000 subscribers (as of this…
Beautiful bread from start to finish.
Field Trip: Roan Mills Bakery
On a sleepy Saturday morning in early October, I drove to Fillmore, CA to meet up with a gaggle of sourdough bread bakers. Our gathering place: Roan Mills Bakery. Why? To get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of making bread from start to finish--from heritage grain to Caprese sandwich. The Bakery Roan Mills is run by Andrea Crawford of Kenter Canyon Farms (and LABB member). She and her team control ever stage, from growing identity-preserved wheat including Sonora, Red Fife, and Glenn,…
Podcast: Bee-Friendly Gardens with Kate Frey
Kate Frey is an accomplished gardener. She earned awards from the Chelsea Flower Show. She co-authored The American Horticultural Society's Best Gardening Book of 2017. And she tended an organic farm for a Saudi Prince for two years. Needless to say, I was dying to interview her for the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Bee-Friendly Gardens Kate Frey Kates first book, The Bee-Friendly Garden, is co-authored with Gretchen LaBuhn. Together they explore the basics of biodiversity, including plant recommendations,…
Kate Frey in her natural habitat.
Bee-Friendly Gardens with Kate Frey
Explore Bee-Friendly Gardens with our podcast guest, Kate Frey
The Ever Curious Gardener is a walk through the mind of Lee Reich, PhD.
Review: The Ever Curious Gardener
When Lee Reich emailed me about his new book, The Ever Curious Gardener: Using a Little Natural Science for a Much Better Garden, I was indeed curious. Gardenerds always are. Reich's new book focuses on observation (which is, I would say, the most important skill in a gardener's tool bag) of his New Paltz, NY garden, where he walks the reader through topics including propagation and planting, soil, flowering and fruiting, plant stress and more. While the book features plants…
John Jeavons is creator of GROW BIOINTENSIVE mini-farming system.
Podcast: Grow BioIntensive with John Jeavons
While planning my trip to the Heirloom Expo I contacted some of the world's top garden experts for interviews, and when John Jeavons of GROW BIOINTENSIVE responded to my email inquiry with a date and time to meet, I jumped out of my chair. What luck! John Jeavons has more than 50 years of data and research in his head, and he shared it all with me in our latest podcast. You can imagine it's hard to distill years of…