Cherry Season
If you want to grow cherries, you’ll need two different trees that pollinate one another. Choose varieties appropriate for your hardiness zone and required chill hours.
Tiny Fuji apples from our first harvest. Didn't thin - how else can you fit 7 apples in one hand?
Thinning Fruit on Apple Trees
Every gardener does it. We get so excited about impending fruit that we don't do what's best for the tree. We see all those tiny blossoms, then tiny orbs, and…
The unit comes with several tip options. We like the brass sprayer (beware of lead, though).
New Toy: Compost Tea Sprayer
Last year after taking Dr. Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web intensive, I ran out and purchased a piston-pump sprayer to take my compost tea to the next level. Compost tea…
Where’s Gardenerd – New Orleans, Louisiana
Mr. Nerd made his way from Northern California to New Orleans this month, where he visited Eugene Arceneaux. Doesn't that name just scream New Orleans? We love to see the…
Earth Day Apps
E-waste recycling is an important way to keep hazardous waste and recyclable products out of our landfills.
Stopping Sow Bugs
Sow bugs can be beneficial to the garden (or at least your compost bin) because they till the soil and are part of the Soil food web. But they are…
Monarch on a happy milkweed plant
Ask Gardenerd: Milkweed for New York?
A question came into Ask Gardenerd this week about milkweed plants and seeds: "Could you please recommend a reliable source to buy African milkweed? I would like to grow some…
Gardenerd on Hallmark’s Home and Family Show 4-13-16
It's been three years since my last appearance on the Hallmark Home and Family Show, and I'm happy to return this Wednesday (it repeats on Thursday, so I am told)…
Swarm Season
The queen takes a little more than half the worker bees and moves to a new location, leaving behind enough food and potential queen cells to hatch and lead after…
22 different tomato seedlings under grow lights.
Wordless Wednesday: April Garden
They say April showers bring May flowers, but it's more like February rains bring April abundance here in Los Angeles. Color and new life reign supreme in the April garden,…