YouTube: Growing Shallots and Garlic – Selection to Harvest

Continue ReadingYouTube: Growing Shallots and Garlic – Selection to Harvest

Fall means it's time to talk about growing shallots and garlic. In many places, these alliums are planted in fall before the ground freezes over (if that happens where you live) and they emerge in spring. But in warm-winter climates, we plant now and they grow over winter.

Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden Cover Art
Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden arrives in March 2021. Pre-order your copy today!

New Book! Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden – Pre-Order Today!

Continue ReadingNew Book! Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden – Pre-Order Today!

Big news, gardenerds (and a distraction from Election Day after you've voted)! My latest book, Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden, is available for pre-order. If you've been wishing for the fruit version of Gardening for Geeks, here it is!

Row 7 Squashes
Our successful harvest from testing out Row 7 Seeds for Koginut and Delicata squash.

Wordless Wednesday: Fall Harvests and New Beginnings

Continue ReadingWordless Wednesday: Fall Harvests and New Beginnings

Fall is upon us and it means we're harvesting the last of the summer garden to make room for new cool season crops. It's time to feed the soil, and to coax seed to life once again in warm-winter climates. No rest for the year-round gardener! Here's some inspiration to keep you going as fall comes on. 

Uno Casa tortilla press
Our new Uno Casa tortilla press (sent for review by Uno Casa).

Homemade Corn Tortillas

Continue ReadingHomemade Corn Tortillas

We love scratch cooking here at Gardenerd, and when the folks at Uno Casa found out, they sent us an 8" cast iron tortilla press to test out. The kit came with a recipe book and we immediately glaumed onto the notion of making cilantro lime corn tortillas. Excitement built.

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