A recent question came in:
"Hi Gardenerd!, I enjoyed your podcast about the wildflowers, and as I already had mine purchased, I have a more specific question. Mar Vista = Clay. After weeding, can the seeds just be scattered or does the soil need amending? I bought a Xeriscape blend, and when I started weeding, I was SHOCKED by the density of clay, wet clay at that after all this rain; but, it does drain as there is no puddling. Raised beds for wildflowers ...
One of the best way to insure diversity in your garden is to start your own seeds indoors, rather than be limited to what's available at nurseries. Timing is everything and now's the time!
Get native! Your garden will love you for it. This week's tip helps you get some wildflowers and native plants into your garden.
A great question came in this week:
"Hi, I started a 8x10 garden in my backyard full of veggies and herbs this past summer, yet everything has died except for a few herbs because I did nothing when it froze here in Dallas...What should I have done if anything to have saved it and how can I start growing things now and what is best to plant. Thanx from newbie gardener.... "
You're not alone this winter. In fact, unless ...
Several years ago, when I started getting serious about Gardenerd, I met Billy Goodnick. Billy is a fellow gardenerd in Santa Barbara with... well, let's just say a lot of experience in the realm of landscaping and gardening. He was so supportive of me branching out of my own, and we kept in touch ever since.
Now, Billy has scored the coolest job writing for Fine Gardening Magazine's blog. Get this - Fine Gardening hired him because they saw ...
Get buzzing with this weeks tip, which will give you specific plants for your zone to attract pollinators.
A great question came in this week from a cauliflower gardener:
"I was so excited to have just harvested my first cauliflower! It was big, beautiful and infested with little grayish white bugs! (aphids, I think?). I couldn't salvage it because there were literally hundreds embedded just beneath the tops of the florets. I have several other cauliflower plants growing, some are new, some almost ready to harvest. Is there anything I can do to prevent future infestations?"
First of all, congratulations ...
During the Go Green Expo on the weekend of January 22-24, 2010, Gardenerd.com got a little media attention. Cindy Dole of Home Wizards was at the Go Green Expo interviewing a few people about their efforts to help green the planet. I was delighted to be invited to her booth for an interview.
On a side note, there was a terrific couple who happened to be driving around listening to the radio that afternoon. When they heard the interview,
We do our best to preserve our harvest, but now we're being thwarted by the presence of BPAs in our canning lids. Find out how to avoid this.
During the summer months, I'm famous for my lemon sorbet. I use Meyer lemons from the tree outside the back door and feed the finished product to my girlfriends when we get together for high tea or some other summer thing that girls do. Now that it's winter, not many people are thinking about lemon sorbet, except for my friend Orna, who has a tree full of lemons and doesn't know what to do with them. She recently ...