Harvesting basil is easy if you know where to look.
Harvesting Basil
Every once in a while it's time to return to basics here at Gardenerd. Our blog is filled with helpful hints for gardening, but we recently discovered that the basics…
Tickle Your Tomatoes
To avoid that long, leggy look in your tomato seedlings, try tickling young tomato plants.
Blackberries
Earth Day Wordless Wednesday: Spring’s Abundance
We're preparing for the Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase this week, so enjoy this Wordless Wednesday for Earth Day: photos of spring's abundance in our Test Garden and stop by…
The original carrot plush toy
Where’s Gardenerd?
And now for something completely different... At least a year ago my PR assistant, Mel, gave me a carrot plush toy. It's the cutest thing ever. It also spawned an…
Interplanting
Interplanting is a great way to use up open space while protecting the soil from exposure to the baking sun.
Under the dome of the Education Center
Field Trip: Huntington’s New Education & Visitor Center
The Huntington Library and Gardens unveiled its new Education and Visitor Center on April 4th. Sadly we couldn't attend that day, but we finally made a pilgrimage to see the…
Interplanting Corn
You've probably heard of the Three Sisters Garden, where you plant corn, beans, and squash together for a symbiotic relationship that takes up less space for all three crops. But…
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,…