April is Earth Month
Earth Day is April 22nd, but you can celebrate and focus on our big blue planet all month.
Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase is FREE!
7th Annual Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase
It's garden tour time, folks, and this year Gardenerd HQ is on the Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase. We'll be opening up the backyard vegetable garden for all to see.…
Always room for the homeowners' cute pelican watering can.
Bye, Bye Turf!
It's time to highlight another turf removal project we've just completed. This one is primarily non-edible, but we were excited to transform another front lawn into a water catchment basin,…
Sage Wisdom from Rosemary
How to deal with fruit flies using rosemary and homemade fruit fly traps
Perennial milkweeds grow back year after year. They provide habitat for traveling Monarch butterflies.
Native Milkweed Only, Please.
I've been hearing it for awhile, especially from the native plant enthusiasts and experts among us: pull out non-native milkweeds, it's making our Monarchs sick. What? Aren't we supposed to…
Prettily wrapped packages would rouse any gardener, eager to unwrap these gifts.
Minnie and Moon Unboxing
Gardenerds love gardening toys, especially in spring. There's something very satisfying about a fresh new ball of jute twine or a well-made hand tool. As if spring wasn't exciting enough,…
Books for Spring Reading
The Urban Soil Summit we recently attended left us with tons of information and even more resources to follow up on later.
What we need to design our gardens to deal with our storm water
Urban Soil Summit Review – Part 2
It's time for more details from the Urban Soil Summit, following Part 1 of our review of the event. Day 2 was just as mind-blowing as Day 1, but the…
Clockwise from upper left (2 of each plant): Renee's Mrs. Burns, Native Seed's Mrs. Burns (1 just sprouted), Salad Leaf Basil, Aurelia Basil, Opal Basil.
Experimental Spring: New Basils and More
Gardeners get bored, so we keep trying new varieties to keep things interesting. This spring at Gardenerd HQ, we're trying out several new seeds for 2015. We planted seeds a…