What’s Growing in Your Garden?

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I've been getting some feedback from fellow gardenerds lately about what's growin' on in their gardens this spring.  I thought I'd post it and invite you to share what's working or not working in your garden this year as well.

"Our garden is really blooming.  My mom
gave Ronnie an upside-down tomato plant for Christmas.  He planted that
about 2 months ago.  One day it all of a sudden exploded.  The plant
grows out the bottom and up around the 'cage'.  Within a few hours it
had grown almost to the top of that cage.  There are several flowers on
it now ...

Gardenerd on Good Food Blog

Continue ReadingGardenerd on Good Food Blog

I've been a fan of Good Food, a weekend radio show on KCRW, for years.  In fact, I'm a lazy podcaster - I only download two podcasts and one of them is Good Food.  Imagine my delight when I was asked to write an article for the Good Food Blog!  Here is the May 21, 2009 post: De-mystifying Asparagus. FYI - the pictures included with the blog are from our asparagus patch in the Gardenerd Teaching Garden. Enjoy!

Read more about the article Houston, We Have Some Squash

Houston, We Have Some Squash

Continue ReadingHouston, We Have Some Squash

I admit it, I went a little crazy.  I was determined to have a successful squash crop in the wake of last year's squash catastrophe.  So I planned for extra, you might say.  This season, at Ocean View Farms, I planted Delicata and Butternut Squashes.  While at the Gardenerd Teaching Garden, we planted zucchini, patty pan, yellow crookneck and pumpkin. 

The First round of zucchini and patty pan squash were eaten by birds.  So were the second round.  So then we planted seeds indoors to make sure nothing went wrong.  That did the trick.  Meanwhile, the pumpkins and ...

Read more about the article Mega Garlic

Mega Garlic

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Garlic was one of the very first things I planted when I started gardening 16 years ago.  There's something about the magic of putting a clove in the ground and getting a bulb back at the end of the season that made me want to try it immediately.  That first year, my boyfriend and I planted garlic cloves in unamended clay soil (clearly we didn't know anything about compost at the time).  We watered it every day and watched it grow.  7 months later, we harvested what has become the best garlic I've ever grown in my life.  ...

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Rabbit Retribution

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Gardens are springing up everywhere - providing snack bars for woodland creatures all over the globe.  Here's a question that came in last week:

"Dear Gardenerd, I am starting a garden in my back yard.  I would LOVE to
convert my useless front lawn into an edible estate but can't spend
thousand of dollars on a fence to keep out the wild rabbits.  Do you
have a simpler suggestion to keep the rabbits at bay? Thanks, Caroline"

I can make a few suggestions, but honestly a fence is the best answer. 
Rabbits burrow, so any fence you put in needs to go down at ...

Zucchini Mishaps

Continue ReadingZucchini Mishaps

An intriguing question came in last week:

"Dear Gardenerd,  I just planted my garden and am looking forward to summer
harvests, but wanted your advice on my zucchini.  Last year, in the
middle of summer, the leaves turned gray and the plants eventually
died.  None of my other veggies were effected, but this also happened
the year before last as well. Is there anything I can do to avoid this
transpiring? thanks so much, Pascal"

Not that this is an answer to your question, but I have to commiserate and say that last year was a rotten year for squash in my ...

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