Wild Boar Farms (Brad Gates) showcases their award winning tomatoes. True eye candy.
Start Your Tomato Seeds
If you plan to plant your tomatoes in late March or early April, now is the time to start tomatoes from seed indoors.
Revitalize your mint pot and bring it back to life.
YouTube: How to Revitalize Your Mint Pot – Don’t Replace It, Refresh It!
Every year in winter our mint pot starts to looks sad, dormant and, let's face it, dead. But if you look closely there is evidence that it is still alive.
photo courtesy of Le Noyau.com
Gardening By The Moon with Stephen McComber
This week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast we chat with Stephen McComber about gardening by the moon.
Mushrooms (not edible) are popping up in our wet soil at Gardenerd HQ.
Wordless Wednesday: Water, Water, Everywhere
You may have heard the news about California's recent rain storms - it's water, water, everywhere! Here's some inspiration for your week, whether it is a wet one or not.
Get Ready to Plan Your Garden for Spring!
As I finish flipping through the last of the winter-arrival seed catalogs, it's time to think about planning the spring garden.
watch our latest video about how to increase apple tree production
YouTube: How to Increase Apple Tree Production
Our latest YouTube video shares a cool hack that will increase your apple tree production in the years to come. Christy shows you a simple trick that will cause new…
Jon Jackson sought comfort in farming to heal. Photos courtesy of Comfort Farms' website.
Podcast: Gardening as Therapy with Jon Jackson
Jon Jackson is an Army vet who found comfort in gardening. On the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast, he shares how this passion turned into a program to help other vets heal after service.
The Meyer lemons are almost completely yellow now. We use these in kale salads and just about everything else.
Wordless Wednesday: January Garden Goodies
I know parts of the country are bracing for the Arctic Blast, but here in SoCal, we're harvesting veggies. I'm not bragging, really. Part of me wishes our soil had the break of winter, but it's not our time. We keep going.
Turn under your cover crop for a great garden this spring.
YouTube: How to Turn Under Cover Crops and Why It’s Worth Doing
Our first video of 2024 shows you how we turn under cover crops here at Gardenerd HQ. Christy shows you how we do it by hand, and get a workout in the process.
Larry Santoyo teaching permaculture
Podcast: Permaculture Chat with Larry Santoyo
We start off the New Year with Larry Santoyo as my guest on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Larry has been a teacher and practitioner of permaculture design for the last 30 years, and was mentored by Bill Mollison, the founding father of Permaculture.