This week's guest blogger is David King from the Learning Garden. He's a great friend and an amazing gardener who does more for the Los Angeles gardening scene than I have space to write. Today he shares his helpful tips for managing apple scab. Take it away David!
For many of us wanting to grow more food on our own, fruits and nuts from trees comprise a major part ...
This time of year, we’re getting a lot of emails about powdery mildew from coastal areas. It’s an airborne fungus, so it’s difficult to avoid or prevent, and once established it’s a challenge if not impossible to eradicate.
I just completed a 5-day composting intensive workshop presented by Alane O’Rielly Weber. Much like my experience with Jon Jeavon’s Grow BioIntensive workshop, this intensive class has re-swizzled the way I think about everything underground.
I knew about the Soil Foodweb, the intricate web of microbial life that exists in the soil and facilitates nutrient uptake in plants (which was first written about by Dr. Elaine Ingham), but I didn’t quite have a handle on how to create a healthy environment for ...
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is available for viewing. Find out more about a great new farmstead cheese maker who's living the dream.
The Dairy Goddess Comes to Mar Vista
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This week's Tip Of The Week explores the similarities and differences between harvesting onions vs. garlic or shallots.
There's something romantic about Romano beans. Maybe it's the history, being associated with Italy, or maybe it's the fantasy of standing on a terrace with a platter of grapes and Parmigiano-Reggiano, overlooking a Tuscan vineyard.
Romano beans are typically grown to be eaten fresh, as a flat bean. If picked when tender, they snap and add sweetness to classic dishes like braised beans and cool, summer salads.
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The 2012 Summer Olympics, with all of its pageantry and intense competition, runs the gamut featuring "26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines," according to Wikipedia. But we feel that the Olympic Committee has left a few important garden-related sporting events out of the competition this year. Perhaps we'll see one of these Top 5 Gardening Events at the Olympics next time in Rio:
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By installing a bat house on the side of a building or up on a pole, you can invite bats to take up residence, and work to control pests in your garden.
Mark Rainville is back to finish his series on making bokashi. In today's post, find out how to use this great fertilizer/compost to grow a thriving garden. Back to you, Mark...
In the previous two posts we discussed the history behind bokashi, described a basic definition, and explained the process of mixing bokashi bran. In this post we will ...
A new client called to inquire about putting in a vegetable garden for her 2 1/2 year old son, who suffers from food allergies. She and her husband wanted to start growing the vegetables that he could eat and teach him where food comes from.
Their modern home, designed and built by Jesse Bornstein Architecture, lent itself to clean lines and angles. As always, we wanted to design the garden to tie in with the ...