First blackberries of the season
Spring Gardens are Waking Up
A friend up north in Canada, Niki Jabbour, posted on Twitter this morning that she's expecting 2 feet of snow tonight. Here in Southern California our spring gardens are waking…
Hearty lentil soup with collard greens
Recipe: Lentil Soup with Collard Greens
We cook from the garden around here. Whatever is coming in from "out there" determines the meal of the day. Since collard greens are finishing up, we needed to find…
Fresh Christmas Limas are incredibly delicious.
Recipe: Garlicky Fresh Christmas Lima Beans with Thyme
I've grown Christmas Lima Beans for several years and have come to love this prolific plant. The first time, we planted in spring and it grew and produced for a…
Blueberries (dwarf varieties) with strawberries and herbs around a tree.
Mini Orchard & Garden for Mom and Dog
Spring is just around the corner, but in the Valley it's already here. Southern California continues to have unseasonably high temperatures and one new gardener wanted to take advantage of…
Brussels Sprouts and Aphids
How to keep aphids off your brussels sprouts
Inspire! Excite! Educate!
Let’s Go to Seed School – Part 3
In this, our last installment about Seed School we explore the economic and political makeup of seeds in our world. For me, this is the real reason we need to…
Emerson Avenue Community Garden
I am Planting a Garden, by Heidi Rose
I ran across this poem a friend wrote several years ago. I read it through again and felt it went right to the heart of what every gardener must be…
Recipes for Winter Harvests
How to make good use out of your Winter harvest
Cat Grass for a Happy Mittens
Cats love chewing on grass. And corn seedlings, apparently (ugh!). And young cover crops (double ugh.) In order to keep Mittens out of the raised beds, we've planted a flat…