SaveSeedSharing.org
SaveSeedSharing.org offers information about the issue and even a petition to sign to help the cause. Find out more details and help to preserve our right to save seeds and…
Grow Your Shower Scrubber
Plant luffa and you’ll have a plentiful supply of natural scrubbing sponges for the tub. Luffa is a gourd that vines up a trellis.
Quartered kumquats (say that 10 times fast)
Recipe: Andrew’s Kumquat Marmalade
The kumquat tree was planted for the husband. Yours truly doesn't care for them. To be honest, the husband uses them as an appetite suppressant (the sourness makes one not…
Radish seeds are medium sized, so you won't need a very small screen.
Harvesting Radish Seeds
Locally adapted seed is an important ally in the garden. Seeds you save and plant again become more adapted to your climate, water conditions, soil, etc. Each time you save…
Identify the male squash flower. Step 1 for hand pollinating.
Hand Pollinating Squash
Early-season gardeners in warm-weather climates are planting zucchini, yellow crookneck and winter squashes already. Flowers open, bees and other pollinators arrive, and soon there will be an abundance of squashes…
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.