Read more about the article LA Times Garden Chat – Spring Garden Tips
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LA Times Garden Chat – Spring Garden Tips

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For those who missed it, I had the pleasure of chatting with Lisa Boone of the LA Times a couple weeks ago about spring planting. It was a chance to share some helpful gardening tips and answer viewer questions. It appears to be one of their more popular chats, receiving more than 27,000 views as of this writing. May it help you get your garden in shape this spring: You'll find tips on pest control, volunteers, composting and small space…

Read more about the article Asian Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad

Asian Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad

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Here's another chance to cook (or not cook) with fresh ingredients from the garden with this great Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad recipe. It's easy to make and uses your cabbage and carrot harvest from the cool-weather season. It happens; we grow things and then try to figure out what to do with the bounty. This recipe uses a whole head of cabbage, making room for more in the fridge. We used a few colorful carrots and green onions from…

Read more about the article It’s Garden Tour Time

It’s Garden Tour Time

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April and May are remembered most for showers and flowers, but the best part of all that spring activity is the garden tours. Now's your chance to get out and see what's growin' on, to get ideas for your own garden, and to see how other gardeners are doing it. Garden tours lend great perspective and "fill the well" for those of us who do this for a living. They differ from flower shows and expos in one major way--they're…

Read more about the article Mystery Eggs
Whitish clear eggs in small piles atop the soil

Mystery Eggs

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Last week I was cleaning up my community garden plot to ready it for new crops and I came upon several small piles of mystery eggs. I had never seen anything like it before and didn't know whether they were from beneficial insects or not. So I left them. Here's what they looked like: Had I been diligent and done the research right away, I would have found out immediately (thank you Google images) that they were...ready for it? SLUG…

Read more about the article Fountain Pump for Rainbarrels
A small fountain pump is a great garden helper

Fountain Pump for Rainbarrels

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Our rainy season appears to be coming to a close here in Los Angeles, but before we turn on the irrigation, there's still a little bit of water in our rain barrels. It's hard to get every last drop out from the bottom, so we've employed a little ingenuity to help us along. Fountain pumps come in handy to extract the last bit of water out from your rain barrels. They can also help pump water uphill to your plants.…

Read more about the article Preserving Cilantro (and other herbs)

Preserving Cilantro (and other herbs)

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Nature plays a mean trick on gardeners here in Southern California. By the time the tomatoes are ripe and the chiles are ready to pick, the salsa garden is missing an important ingredient: cilantro. Our delicate friend has long since bolted to seed, and like the hawk and wolf in Ladyhawke, never the twain shall meet. But now there is a simple way to preserve the fresh flavor of cilantro. It's like making pesto, but without the cheese and nuts.…

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