Read more about the article Recipe: Fava Bean Crostini
Mint adds brightness to this delicious appetizer or side dish.

Recipe: Fava Bean Crostini

Continue ReadingRecipe: Fava Bean Crostini

What do you do with all those fava beans from your winter cover crop? The possibilities are endless, but when you're in the mood for something sophisticated, try this fava bean crostini for a bright spring delight. It is based on a recipe from Susie Middleton's Eat Your Spring Veggies: Five Fresh Dishes in Oregon Live. Instead of shallots, we used some of our freshly harvested, young green garlic. Check out this satisfying treat: Ingredients  - for 2 Kosher salt 1 pounds…

Read more about the article Easy Patio Garden
Raised Bed planter (getting 10 minutes of shade from the palm tree overhead)

Easy Patio Garden

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One of my Santa Monica College students wanted to put in a starter garden to try out her new found skills on a small scale. She didn't want to invest in landscaping or permanent raised beds just yet. After a consultation and some thoughtful deliberation, we landed on a patio garden with a pre-fab raised bed. The patio was level concrete and brick, eliminating the need to level out uneven ground (saving on labor costs). There was no grass to…

Read more about the article LA Times Garden Chat – Spring Garden Tips
Beans, squash, orach spinach, and herbs. Start these and more now.

LA Times Garden Chat – Spring Garden Tips

Continue ReadingLA Times Garden Chat – Spring Garden Tips

For those who missed it, I had the pleasure of chatting with Lisa Boone of the LA Times a couple weeks ago about spring planting. It was a chance to share some helpful gardening tips and answer viewer questions. It appears to be one of their more popular chats, receiving more than 27,000 views as of this writing. May it help you get your garden in shape this spring: You'll find tips on pest control, volunteers, composting and small space…

Read more about the article Asian Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad

Asian Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad

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Here's another chance to cook (or not cook) with fresh ingredients from the garden with this great Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad recipe. It's easy to make and uses your cabbage and carrot harvest from the cool-weather season. It happens; we grow things and then try to figure out what to do with the bounty. This recipe uses a whole head of cabbage, making room for more in the fridge. We used a few colorful carrots and green onions from…

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It’s Garden Tour Time

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April and May are remembered most for showers and flowers, but the best part of all that spring activity is the garden tours. Now's your chance to get out and see what's growin' on, to get ideas for your own garden, and to see how other gardeners are doing it. Garden tours lend great perspective and "fill the well" for those of us who do this for a living. They differ from flower shows and expos in one major way--they're…

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Whitish clear eggs in small piles atop the soil

Mystery Eggs

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Last week I was cleaning up my community garden plot to ready it for new crops and I came upon several small piles of mystery eggs. I had never seen anything like it before and didn't know whether they were from beneficial insects or not. So I left them. Here's what they looked like: Had I been diligent and done the research right away, I would have found out immediately (thank you Google images) that they were...ready for it? SLUG…

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