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School Garden

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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 ...

Raccoon Troubles

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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 ...

Gardenerd in The Ray Magazine

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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, ...

Read more about the article What’s Working…and Not Working

What’s Working…and Not Working

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This season has been an interesting one.  I've had luck this year with plants I've tried (and failed) to grow for the past 11 years.  At the same time, I've had trouble this year with plants that do well consistently year after year.   I thought I'd report my findings for those who might be experiencing the same thing.  What's Working: Watermelon - I think the last time I got watermelon to set fruit was about 9 years ago.  That hasn't…

Read more about the article First Summer Harvest

First Summer Harvest

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Even though we've been harvesting squash for awhile now (see "Zucchini Anyone?"), it doesn't really feel like a summer harvest until the tomatoes start showing up.  This week, it's official!  They're red and ready to start pickin' at the Gardenerd test garden. 

Although, to say that they're red would be discriminatory.  These heirloom tomatoes are ripening in nearly every color of the rainbow.  Red is almost passe with all the delectable heirloom options out there. 

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