I'm delighted to present a guest post from Mark Rainville, one of my fellow gardeners at Ocean View Farms, who has been experimenting with E.M. Bokashi over the last year. This is the first installment to get you started down the fabulous road to fermented tea as fertilizer / soil conditioner. Take it away, Mark:
With all of the home composting options available, the bokashi food scrap fermentation system is one of the easiest and can be the ...
Even if you live in a warm climate, canyon and foothill areas are susceptible to frost. Play it safe, know your frost dates. This week's Tip Of The Week will give you a basic primer on what you need tabout frost.
The latest post from Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter is up, just in time for your St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Find out some great ways to add this festive green to your meal plan this weekend.
St. Patty's Day and Cabbage
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The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for March 16, 2012. If you still have winter produce growing your garden, why not celebrate the coming of spring with a 100-mile meal party? A 100-mile meal is a potluck where guests bring dishes that have been grown within 100 miles or less of the potluck location.
Spring starts next week, and if you haven't started gardening, let this be the call to action. Since we've been experiencing technical difficulties with our search feature on Gardenerd.com, we wanted to offer these helpful posts to help guide your gardening endeavors in the meanwhile.
Seed Starting - start seeds indoors for lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, melons, cucumbers and beans.
Many readers have asked that we post regular updates about our new chickens, and since Blanche - our Barnevelder - recently reached a milestone, it felt like a good time to send one out. Yes, Blanche started laying, and we were there to witness her first day.
It's not something that you read in books. In fact, it is often not even implied, but what we saw Blanche endure that day was nothing less than a rite of ...
The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for March 9, 2012. It’s time to plant spring crops, and in some places summer crops. Here in Southern California, it’s a great time to start cucumbers indoors. There’s a trick to doing it though. Cucumbers don’t like their roots disturbed when they grow, so transplanting them out into the garden can send them into shock or decline.
Over the past month or so, we've been testing out the Back to the Roots Oyster Mushroom kit, and we're eating the results.
A fun question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week:
" I have a big south facing back porch. I would love to make a small greenhouse where I could start seeds and, maybe, even let herbs [over]winter. Do you have ideas for making my own greenhouse?"
There are many options, from a mini-greenhouse to the full-fledged, brick and mortar English greenhouse. I used to create my own mini-greenhouses by taking tomato cages, laying them on their sides ...
The Gardenerd.com Tip of the Week for March 1, 2012. Alfalfa is a perennial crop with long taproots, and once established it can be cut back regularly like grass for a continued supply of green material for the compost bin.