Favorite Fall Heirlooms
If you are looking for something a little different for your fall garden this year, step away from hybrids and the same-old, same-old varieties that nurseries have to offer.
Arugula: Sylvetta vs. Rocket
For so many years, arugula has been a staple in the garden. It's a fantastic addition to salads (grown right next to mustard greens and lettuces, it adds amazing texture to the garden as well), and can be cooked into pasta dishes, thrown on sandwiches or served as a garnish for Italian dishes.
This year, our regular arugula plants are getting some competition. We've always grown arugula (A.K.A. rocket salad, rocket arugula, eruca sativa), but ever since a visit to Italy where we ate an entire salad made from Wild arugula (A.K.A. ...
LA Green Festival
This weekend is the Los Angeles Green Festival, where I will be speaking on Sunday, October 30 at 2 p.m in the
Sustainable Home and Garden Pavilion. Heirlooms and Open-pollinated Seeds will be the topic of the afternoon, and if you want to learn why it's so important for us to grow these gems, and save the
seeds, come on down and find out.
Green Festival, the nation’s largest and most trusted green living event, ...
Fall is All About Winter Squash
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Find great ideas for cooking and decorating with pumpkins and other beautiful fall winter squash varieties:
Celebrate Halloween and Fall with Winter Squash
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Pumpkin Mania
Winter squashes take the stage, literally, as giant pumpkins weigh in across the country. Celebrate the great pumpkin with this Week's Tip Of The Week.
Save D. Landreth Seed Company
D. Landreth is the oldest seed house in America, and it's going out of business unless we help them. The bank has seized the company's assets and in order to pay back its debt, D. Landreth is selling seed catalogs to raise funds. Here's the scoop from their website:
"On August 30, 2011 the Landreth bank accounts were frozen by a court ordered garnishment because the company had failed to pay back some of the debt ...
New Book for Your Shelf
The founders of Baker Creek, Jere and Emilee Gettle, have published a book – The Heirloom Life Gardener - that not only tells the story of Baker Creek from its humble yet eager beginnings, it shares growing and harvesting tips for heirlooms from A-Z.
Take Cover! It’s Cabbage Moth Season.
Just a few moments in the garden reveal that it must be mating season for the cabbage moth. These deceptively cute white butterflies can be found twirling around one another and fluttering about the garden, looking for a good place to lay their eggs. Be prepared.
We planted out our kale and cabbage crops early this year, but took the precaution of covering them with floating row cover to keep the critters from settling in.
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A Fall Thinnings Salad
If you grow from seed this fall, you'll have a chance to enjoy the benefits of thinning your seedlings right into the salad bowl. Baby greens may be expensive in the market, but they're free when you pick from the excess of sprouts in your garden.
Even when using Square Foot Gardening, I like to have a little bit of insurance. I plant two or three seeds in each planting hole, then wait for survival of the fittest to make itself known. The smaller seedlings are then snipped off (with scissors, rather ...
A Taste Of Italy in Mar Vista
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Learn all about Rita's Roman Recipes (website coming soon), and where to get them:
A Taste of Italy in Mar Vista
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