Free Webinar Returns – Winning the Pest Control Game
If you haven't encountered pests in your garden yet this season, it's almost as certain as "death and taxes" that you will.
The rats finally discovered our volunteer Azoychka tomato and sent a message.
Creating a Healthy Garden Returns
If you missed the window for our new online pest control course, Creating a Healthy Garden, during its initial release, you're in luck. It's back!
YouTube: How to Keep Squirrels Out of the Garden
Squirrels can be a huge problem in the garden. And as stone fruit season arrives, gardenerds will need help protecting those crops if squirrels are nearby.
Alexia Allen shares her living space with animals and harvested food.
Podcast: Hand to Mouth with Alexia Allen
Alexia Allen lives on Hawthorn Farm in Washington state, where she and her husband spent the entire year of 2017 eating only hand-harvested food.
Harvested Seascape strawberries - an everbearing variety we love.
Wordless Wednesday: Promise, Portent, and Poppies
The spring garden is showing signs of promise, portent, and poppies. There's so much bursting from the soil, so much potential, it's hard to contain one's excitement.
Photo by Andrew Cheeseman
Ask Gardenerd: Water Crisis – How to Conserve Water for Garden Plants
I've been hearing from clients about new water restrictions cities are implementing to deal with California's water crisis. In some cases, cities plan to cut homeowner's water supply by 50%.
YouTube: Growing Squash and Melons – Mounds or Moats?
Our latest YouTube video explores common techniques for growing squash and melons. Ubiquitous instructions say to plant in hills, but is that right for everyone?
Kim Flottum and his new co-authored book
Podcast: Common Sense Natural Beekeeping with Kim Flottum
Our podcast guest this week is Kim Flottum, long time beekeeper and author of more than 6 books. His latest book, is all about common sense natural beekeeping.
Our Meyer Lemon harvest is done for the year. We juiced and froze most of them, but left a handful to use fresh, along with oranges and a grapefruit (a gift from a client).
Wordless Wednesday: The Winds of Spring
Why am I calling this the winds of spring? Taking photos for today's Wordless Wednesday was a challenge because the wind was blowing through the garden at 20 miles per hour.
Winter lettuce patch is going strong. Time to sow new seeds for the spring round of salads.
YouTube: How To Harvest Leafy Greens
Our latest YouTube video answers the basic question: how to harvest leafy greens. These factory vegetables, as we like to call them, will keep producing in your garden beds for months if you know how to harvest them properly.