Nasturtiums, calendula, and poppies cover the ground in beautiful chaos.
Wordless Wednesday: March Garden Madness
Recent rains brought the garden to life with all its chaos and glory. Here's some inspiration for your March garden madness.
YouTube: How to Repot Lemongrass
Our latest YouTube video shows you step-by-step how to repot lemongrass plants that have become sad and overgrown. Fix your root-bound pots and get ready for abundant growth.
Icicles form on tree branches as they melt
Hardiness Zone – What Does It Mean?
We spent a week in a completely different hardiness zone this week, and it was a chance to see how latitude and elevation can change your gardening experience entirely. While SoCal is enjoying full-blown spring weather, places with snow are at least a month away from planting anything outdoors. Let's look at hardiness zones and what they mean. To start, your hardness zone depends on where you live, be it coastal, mountains, valleys, and northern or southern latitudes. Find yourself…
YouTube: A Container Garden Glow Up with Vego Gardens – Part 2
Our container garden glow up continues in our latest YouTube video. This week: irrigation, filling the beds, and transplanting overgrown, sad container plants into the new planters.
Mittens walks her beat to patrol the garden for critters.
Wordless Wednesday: Seasonal Changes
Some of you gardenerds are already experiencing seasonal changes. We saw a friend's post today saying "I heard birds for the first time today; must be spring!" Here's some inspiration for your seasonal changes, no matter their timing. Volunteer ornamental and California poppies right next to each other. Orange blossoms are budding out. Yay - time to feed your citrus trees. This yellow yarrow adds color and cheer as spring approaches. This nasturtium has a beautiful mottled petal unlike its…
YouTube: A Container Garden Glow-Up with Vego Gardens – Part 1
In our latest YouTube video, our neglected hodgepodge of pots was waterlogged and root-bound. Christy shares this fantastic upgrade to Vego Garden planter beds.
High Yield Small Space Organic Gardening is the newest addition to Christy's stack of books.
Save The Date – Book Launch Party
Save the date for Christy's book launch party. Bring your burning gardening questions on April 6th at 3 p.m. to celebrate this new book.
Why do we hill up potatoes?
YouTube: Why Do We Hill Up Potatoes?
You've probably heard that you're supposed to hill up potatoes, but do you know why? In our latest video, Christy explains the two reasons why it's a good idea.
Our pomegranate is leafing out now.
Wordless Wednesday: Giving the Garden Some Love
Much-needed rain in Los Angeles is giving the garden some love. Here's some inspiration to help get you ready for spring.
YouTube: Free Water – How to Set Up a Rain Barrel
Christy shares how to create your own water catchment system so you can reuse valuable free water long after it rains.