Planting Sweet Potatoes
This week’s tip comes from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, with helpful suggestions to maximize your sweet potato yield.
What to Do with Lemon Balm (A.K.A. another excuse for ice cream)
Being a participant in the Westside Produce Exchange means that you never know what you're going to get. A typical bag, depending on the season, contains lemons, oranges, greens like kale and chard, avocados, artichokes, green beans, and tomatoes. There's always a bouquet of herbs like rosemary, basil, oregano, and thyme.
This month's exchange did not disappoint, but it did leave some of us in a quandary about what ...
Count Your Butterflies
You can participate by counting and identifying butterflies in your garden and neighborhood, and reporting your findings to certain organizations for analysis.
Ask Gardenerd: Spots on My Herbs
A question came in this week to Ask Gardenerd that I have been asking myself for awhile, but never felt compelled to research the answer. Now I have no excuse:
"Hello! The leaves of many of my herbs have white speckles on them lately. (It almost looks like they're variegated). It's definitely not on the leaves, but more so 'in' the leaves and is appearing on many of the varieties, such as thyme, basil, and cilantro. Any ...
Mother’s Day Brunch from the Garden
In her delightful book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver wrote about planning an entire season ahead for a party that would feature a meal prepared from the garden. She worried that there wouldn't be enough food, or that the plants wouldn't be mature enough in time. This Mother's Day, we took a lesson from Barbara and planned a brunch that not only took place in the garden, but was ...
Celebrate Composting
This May 6-12, the US Composting Council is encouraging everyone to start a compost pile at home or school. Find a composting activity to celebrate!
Venice Garden Tour 2012 Review
It's that time of year when gardens are looking their best and neighborhood garden tours abound. Here in Los Angeles, we finished up our own participation in the Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase and last weekend we set out on foot to explore the homes on the Venice Garden Tour. Here is our quick photo review:
Ever since the Venice Garden Tour combined with the Venice Home Tour, the ...
Taste of Pace
This week Gardenerd got a mention on a local L.A. chef's website. Find out a little bit more about her adventures with seed bombs (a guerrilla gardening staple) and while you're there check out Pace's monthly supper club.
Flower Bombs in the City
P.S. don't forget to water those seed bombs regularly, or they'll just bomb.
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Urban Green Reaches Out
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is live and in action at Patch.com. Learn all about Urban Green, an amazing program that educates and provides fresh produce in food deserts:
Urban Green Grows Great Grub
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Be a Farmsteader
Meet the owners of Inn Serendipity who are farmsteadtarians, eating as much as possible from their own gardens, community and, when necessary, from carefully selected sources.