Tomatos on the Grand Scale
A student sent me an e-mail today with a headline from the New York Times. It seems to shed some light on the problem we've been having with tomatoes this year.
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Time For Lunch
We grow own own food to ensure high quality food in our lives. Our children should have the choice at school as well. Get involved this September as Slow Food USA takes on the Child Nutrition Act. See how you can help.
Broiled Tomatoes
It's during hot summer days like these that the will to cook evaporates. You're staring at a pile of freshly picked tomatoes wishing that they would get up and cook dinner for you. This is the time when fast and easy recipes are indispensable. Have I got one for you. Broiled Tomatoes.
This gem has been a favorite of mine for about 5 years. It comes from a 2003 issue of Real Simple Magazine and lives amongst the tomato recipes in my binder. All you need to do is cut beefsteak tomatoes in half width-wise (across the equator), stuff ...
School Garden
Gardenerd.com has partnered with the Woolly Pocket Company and School Nutrition Plus to create a pilot program for school gardens that not only integrates the garden into the curriculum, but gives the children something to take into the cafeteria too! Over the last two days we converted an abandoned garden area on the campus of Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School into a revitalized growing space that includes a vertical garden!
We started with weeds, old raised beds, tired soil and lots of odds and ends (we even found a shoe). There was a lemon tree starving for sunlight ...
Treat Powdery Mildew
Powdery Mildew can ruin your chances of having all the squash you could ever want. Learn how to keep it at bay and prevent it in the first place.
Pinch those Suckers!
Keep your tomatoes in great shape this summer with this handy tip. Learn how to expand your collection too!
Raccoon Troubles
A great question came in this week:
"Hi Christy, I live in Santa Monica and I have Raccoons! We caught a
giant one rustling through our soon to be bountiful garden a few nights
ago and now know who has been munching on our strawberries and also
took a bite of a green Serrano (I think one bite was enough for him).
The last straw for me was that he got his hands on an heirloom tomato
that was just nearing ripeness and ripped it off the plant! Considering
the amount of tomatoes I have planted, he must ...
Home Made Mozzarella
Since the garden is pretty much doing its own thing these days, we tend for focus more on the bounty of the harvest than the growing of plants (which is just as exciting anyway).
Gardenerd in The Ray Magazine
It's official. Gardenerd's Christy Wilhelmi is a columnist! You'll find a quarterly column on gardening, called Take It Outside, featured in the newly revamped The Ray Magazine.
A little about The Ray: Statistics show that most women feel worse about themselves after reading "womens magazines". The Ray Magazine has set out to change that! You can subscribe to this unique magazine that nurtures a healthy self-image for women by visiting the website or finding a copy in Los Angeles outside of Whole Foods.
Look for Christy's column, ...
Harvesting Watermelon
Learn a nifty trick for harvesting watermelon - summer's tastiest treat - when it's ripe.