The Great Sunflower Project encourages people living in urban areas to plant sunflowers, as well as other beneficial insectaries, to attract bees and other food pollinators to dense urban spaces. This week's tip of the week will show you how to get involved!
A question came in this week to Ask Gardenerd:
"I was cycling in Silverlake and saw your garden you've setup for a greyish building! It looked great! I was especially intrigued by the interesting bean & tomato trellises you have. I know this is technically "consulting", but where can I get my hands on some of those for my garden?"
You must mean the Dream Center Garden that I've been working on for over a year now. We planted 24 tomatoes and nearly 100 peas in just ...
Question: What's more fun than planting your spring garden?
Answer: Going to a garden show filled with gardeners and garden gear to get new ideas about what to plant in your spring garden.
I ventured up to San Francisco last week to take in a convention-center-full of ideas and gardening joys. To my delight, there was a clear focus on edible landscaping and home food-gardening that offered fresh insight for home growers. A few favorites jumped out, so let's get right to it:
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In my early years of cooking, I found that my attempts at roasting vegetables ended with deflated, soggy lumps that once resembled fresh veggies. Perhaps that is why I still hold romantic notions about serving amazingly caramelized, oven-roasted, Mediterranean fare cooked to perfection at elegant parties.
Well, it may not have been an elegant party - just a thrown-together dinner for two based on this romantic notion - but success was finally achieved in the roasted vegetable department.
First, the old stand-by - baked/roasted home grown potatoes: ...
Oh, the trouble with bamboo... here's a question that came in this week on the subject: "I attended a class of yours a few years ago. Since then, we had a planter built in my yard out of railroad ties. There was a think fabric base placed underneath to block out weeds and bugs. As we prepared for spring planting this week, we discovered that bamboo has infiltrated everything. It grew under the fabric base and worked it's way through…
Trita-who? No, it’s not a leafy green, but it sounds like it depending on how you pronounce it. Learn more about this grain with this week's tip of the week!
A question came into Ask Gardenerd this week, about tomato blight and other fungal diseases
If you drink coffee, then you have an endless supply of free fertilizer for your garden. This week's tip of the week wiill show you how!
Maybe I'm a little anxious. Maybe I'm just ahead of the game. Really, though, I think I'm just excited about the coming of spring to the point that I can't hold it in any longer. See, I planted squash and cucumbers - I KNOW, I know... it's early... I can't help it. It may still be blustery and chilly out there, but I've got a plan to make everything alright:
Cloches - home made cloches - will keep my cucurbits happy until the weather warms up.
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In September 2009, I started working on a project for the Dream Center in downtown Los Angeles. It's been a long road, gathering grant money and donated supplies, but the Dream Garden is shaping up to be a fine reality for the residents of the Dream Center.
Today a team of about 15 people planted the first batch of transplants into the garden. The excitement was palpable as we placed plants in each bed, according to a diagram I made ...