Oh sure, I've got plenty of growing space in my raised beds, but sometimes that's just not enough. Sometimes you have to take over the
place.
I feel like a warrior -- or maybe a gold rush prospector; I've just made a minor land-grab in my own
back yard.
Let me e'splain: I met up with Conor Fitzpatrick on the last day of Tomatomania, where I ...
(cue movie voice-over guy)
It's been three years in the making...
and one woman has been waiting a lifetime...
but will she be ready for...
ASPARAGUS HARVEST 2010!
(fade in on woman in garden hat, carrying gardening pruners, running from the kitchen door to the asparagus bed. She snips a few spears with a smile on her face, runs back to the
kitchen.
Clock shows that 5 minutes passes. ...
I had the great pleasure of meeting Larry Santoyo of Earthflow Design over the weekend. For those who don't know, he teaches the renowned Permaculture Design
Course in Los Angeles. The next course starts this weekend and Larry is offering 2 for 1 discounts to anyone who registers and mentions that you heard it from Gardenerd. Here are the
details:
http://earthflow.com/LAPDC_spring10.php ...
We got one step closer to our goal of replacing all lawns in Los Angeles with useful growing spaces. The Winship family had a front lawn that
wasn't serving them, and it was the only area of their property that had full sun for growing vegetables (as is the case with many homes).
I met with them to discuss what they wanted in a vegetable garden: raised beds, enough room to grow herbs, and something they could ...
Well, it's that time again. Time to get on your walking shoes or bicycle and head out to see some fantastic, clever landscaping in west side Los Angeles. The
Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase is just a month away, and will be featuring 80 houses (impossible to see them all, but you can sure try) that focus on either native plants and drought tolerant
landscapes, edible gardens, or energy efficient features like solar power or rain barrels.
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For those who didn't catch it, Miguel Nelson, the inventor of Woolly Pocket Gardens and our collaborator on the Woolly Pocket School Garden Program, was on
Martha Stewart in early March. They've posted the clip on the MS website for all to see. If you wait until the page loads, you'll see the words, "watch video" appear at the bottom of the
photograph.
And for a moment of shameless self-promotion, when Miguel ...
Every fall I grow several heads of cabbage to enjoy in winter and spring as the rest of the garden gets going. But year after year, I find myself wondering
what to do with the cabbage I've grown. Sound familiar? Well, I've found a few great ways to use cabbage that I thought I'd share here.
Cabbage, chard, broccoli, green onions, cilantro, arugula and mustard greens make up the winter harvest
Aside from ...
Perhaps you've seen it in the news lately, or perhaps you've been seeing it in the news for a decade. I'm talking about sewage sludge. Time and time again, we are challenged with the task of finding out what's really in the stuff we eat, or in this case, what's in the stuff we use to grow the stuff we eat. I've always been a big proponent of knowing where my garden supplies come from, and I've done ...
I've been a bit paralyzed by all the different outreach efforts and options to donate to Haiti, and I find it
difficult to sort out what's legit and what's not. So because of that, I haven't felt strongly about one avenue or another for helping the Haitians recover from the disastrous earthquake that
has left so many without homes or infrastructure. Until today.
I've been trying to sell my extra ...
As a birthday present to myself, I purchased some redwood seed flats from Bountiful Gardens, the home of Ecology Action in Willits, CA. These redwood seed flats allow gardeners to start seeds very close together without the occasionally tedious limitation of trays with cells. These open "half flats" (which I purchased instead of the full size flats that are twice as large and twice as heavy) can hold up to 87 seedlings in the same amount of space ...