New bed, ready for compost and plants
Turning Cover Crops
Let us depart from conventional wisdom of turning cover crops into the soil beneath. Let us instead take a lesson from John Jeavons' GROW BIOINTENSIVE method and use the cover…
Purple, orange and yellow carrots await you
Grow Rainbow Carrots
You can enjoy a rainbow of colors in your meals if you grow carrots. What? You mean they're not just orange? Let us explore. They may take awhile to grow,…
New From Scratch
New magazines surface all the time, but this one is geared towards homesteaders with passion for all that they do.
Completed garden with cool season crops planted. We left room for warm season crops, which will be planted next month.
Family’s New Vegetable Garden
A student from my Santa Monica College gardening course hired me to design a vegetable garden - a few raised beds so his family could grow tomatoes, salad greens and…
U-pins hold netting in place to keep curious hens from crawling out underneath.
Wider Pastures: New Chicken Run
We were lucky. Our chickens never really discovered the garden. They simply stayed within bounds to peck and scratch the day away. Until last week. Their eyes have been opened…
Bring Back the Pollinators
Find out how to attract bees and other pollinators to your garden.
Kale Salad ready for scarfing.
Recipe: Northern Spy Kale Salad
For winter gardeners, kale is a staple crop that we have the pleasure of harvesting all season long. It grows well in spring in cooler climates, so for those covered…
The Edible Landscape by Emily Tepe
Book Review: The Edible Landscape
Last month I received a copy of Emily Tepe's new book, The Edible Landscape, and since I don't write reviews without reading the thing cover to cover (and I'm a…
Seed Depth Rules
Gardenerd provides helpful tips to plant seeds for your garden.
Home made cloches work wonders for protecting seedlings.
Ask Gardenerd: What’s Eating My Seeds?
A great question came into Ask Gardenerd this week about plant protection: "It seems that every time I start seeds or plant out transplants in my raised bed, they get…