Cherry Season is Here!
Don't you love it when new fruits pop up at the Farmers' Market? This week's Mar Vista Bounty Hunter is all about cherries and what to do with them:
It's a Cherry Jubilee at the Farmers' Market
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Italy Travelogue: Umbria’s Beauty and Hotel Montali
I've just returned from 12 days in Italy filled with gelato, pasta, cheese and beautiful countryside. May is a wonderful time to be there - just before the stifling heat, but just after gardens have been planted. If there's one thing you see a lot of in Italy, it's front yard gardens. They are not obsessed with the idea of a grassy front lawn like we Americans. They use their land to grow food - lots of food.
Driving through the green rolling hills of Umbria, we saw small Medieval towns dotting the ...
Local Organic Blueberries – Get ’em at the Patch
Here's the most recent post from our forages through the Mar Vista Farmers' Market:
Organic Blueberries Give Kids a Sweet Snack Alternative
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Squash Pollination
When it comes to squash and squash blossoms, I leave nothing to chance – I hand pollinate. Listen to this week's tip of the week for tips to apply to your garden.
Dream Garden Grows Up
I stopped by the Dream Center garden in downtown Los Angeles yesterday to see how things are growing in and I was delighted to see what has transpired since my last visit. It's all grown up!
Not only did the flagstone and decomposed granite get installed in the pathway, but the mulch had arrived (free from the City) and it was all in place.
Pathway complete, plants growing in. Happiness is a thriving garden!
Some of the tomatoes even had fruit set already: ...
Growing Yellow Raspberries
Every once in a while I get a question that I don't know the answer to. This week was one of those times:
"I am planting some yellow raspberries this spring. I am now able to harvest strawberries in the spring and blackberries in the summer. I selected the yellows so that I could have a fall harvest of fruit. What do I need to know to encourage this to happen? What should I expect the first year?"
Cane berries can be fun - thorny, but ...
Grow a summer salsa garden!
Why not plant a salsa garden that will reward you with spicy delights in the months to come? This tip of the week will show you how!
Venice Garden Tour 2011 Review
Every gardenerd needs to "fill the well" sometimes, to take in beauty and inspiration that will generate ideas for future gardening projects. Today was filled with sparks of gardening inspiration at the Venice Garden Tour. There were 31 houses on the tour, so we set out on foot to take them all in.
Venice Beach, for those who aren't familiar, is an eclectic town populated with artists, architects, landscape designers, and hippies. It was the epicenter of pushing the envelope in the 20s, where the world's first swimsuit competition was held. It's the ...
Eat Your Heart Out Popeye – Kale Lasagna Beats Spinach
We have a steady stream of kale coming from the garden these days, and while I make my favorite raw kale salad almost every week with it, there is a need for a new recipe. Enter Kale Lasagna from the January/ February issue of Vegetarian Times magazine.
Along with a slew of other kale recipes, this one caught my eye. Anything that calls for no-boil noodles increases the odds of actually making the dish, so I gathered the ingredients and went to work:
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Mother’s Day Festivities
This Sunday is Mother’s Day and if you are scouring the internet for ideas, Gardenerd can help. Listen to Christy's top suggestions for gifts and ideas to celebrate your mom!