We're blessed with rain today, and with it comes the promise that the lettuce seeds we planted earlier this week will germinate. Spring is here in Los Angeles and life springs forth once again.
I once witnessed a friend making Stinging Nettle Soup with some nettles from the wild, an onion, a potato and some lemon juice. It was delicious, and I put it on my list of things to learn to make myself.
Our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast is Doug Tallamy. Doug is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware.
This year, Gardenerd is partnering with TomatoMania to present the Gardenerd Education Series. We've lined up great speakers who are ready to share their tomato-growing expertise.
As our winter crops finish up, it's time for change in the garden. We've planned the warm season garden, now it's time to turn cover crops, harvest crops, amend beds, and plant anew.
Our question to Ask Gardenerd this week came from Vincent Basehart about doing a soil test, "Do you recommend soil testing, and if so, can you recommend a kit that is easy to use?"
Our first podcast of the year starts us off on the right foot as we chat with Farmer Rishi Kumar about Healing Gardens.
Some gardening endeavors take time, but the payoff is worth the wait when it comes to harvesting luffa (or loofah if you want to spell it phonetically).
A question came into Ask Gardenerd that I hear often: "My standard compost bins have been populated with worms - I think red worms?
Allow me to reminisce. When I first wrote Gardening for Geeks in 2012, it was designed to consolidate every gardening lesson I teach into one book.