Tomato Seedling Sale in El Camino
This just came to me via one of my clients. If you happen to still need tomato seedlings now is your chance to get them cheap in the Los Angeles area:
Hand Pollinating
Help your squash plants along with this handy tip to ensure pollination.
Houston, 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 ...
Mega Garlic
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. ...
Gardens of Gratitude
Join your community in building 100 new edible gardens this weekend.
Rabbit Retribution
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
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 ...
Where the Recycling Goes
A while back, I met Kathleen Jacecko of Teaching Green, and have since been on her mailing list of newletters filled with ideas for sustainable living. Last month, she published an entry about a field trip she made to the Materials Recovery Facility - a.k.a. where the recycling goes. I have always been fascinated with recycling (my first environmental passion after gardening). I thought the ...
Foiled Again!
Combat aphids with this sneaky trick to keep them out of hiding.
Japanese / Vegetable Garden in Sierra Madre
This spring, Gardenerd has helped many new gardeners get on their way. Whether it be through classes, consulting or food garden design, it's been a delight to watch people get bitten by the gardening bug and begin growing their own food.
One such delight came last month, when we finished installing a new garden in Sierra Madre. At first it was going to be a simple, straight forward garden with a few raised beds to maximize growing space. But as the process went on, the home owners realized that they really wanted to incorporate their dream garden - a ...
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