Broiled Tomatoes

It's during hot summer days like these that the will to cook evaporates.  You're staring at a pile of freshly picked tomatoes wishing that they would get up and cook dinner for you.  This is the time when fast and easy recipes are indispensable.  Have I got one for you.  Broiled Tomatoes.

This gem has been a favorite of mine for about 5 years. It comes from a 2003 issue of Real Simple Magazine and lives amongst the tomato recipes in my binder.  All you need to do is cut beefsteak tomatoes in half width-wise (across the equator), stuff ...

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School Garden

Gardenerd.com has partnered with the Woolly Pocket Company and School Nutrition Plus to create a pilot program for school gardens that not only integrates the garden into the curriculum, but gives the children something to take into the cafeteria too!  Over the last two days we converted an abandoned garden area on the campus of Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School into a revitalized growing space that includes a vertical garden!

We started with weeds, old raised beds, tired soil and lots of odds and ends (we even found a shoe).  There was a lemon tree starving for sunlight ...

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Gardenerd in The Ray Magazine

It's official. Gardenerd's Christy Wilhelmi is a columnist!  You'll find a quarterly column on gardening, called Take It Outside, featured in the newly revamped The Ray Magazine. 

A little about The Ray: Statistics show that most women feel worse about themselves after reading "womens magazines".  The Ray Magazine has set out to change that!   You can subscribe to this unique magazine that nurtures a healthy self-image for women by visiting the website or finding a copy in Los Angeles outside of Whole Foods.

 
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First Summer Harvest

Even though we've been harvesting squash for awhile now (see "Zucchini Anyone?"), it doesn't really feel like a summer harvest until the tomatoes start showing up.  This week, it's official!  They're red and ready to start pickin' at the Gardenerd test garden. 

Although, to say that they're red would be discriminatory.  These heirloom tomatoes are ripening in nearly every color of the rainbow.  Red is almost passe with all the delectable heirloom options out there. 

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Zucchini Anyone?

Often when people leave for vacation, they experience a pleasant surprise of a thriving garden when they return (as long as it's being watered while they're gone).  My clients often report that just a week away produces a huge growth spurt in their gardens.  I've had this experience myself.

Recently though, I'd like to say that I went away on vacation, but the truth is I just got lazy and didn't check in on the zucchini for a few days.  Oops...

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Swiss Chard Frittata – by Rose Elliot

In a rush to find a main dish to serve impromptu family dinner guests, I tried a new recipe the other night from one of my favorite cookbooks - Vegetarian Fast Food, by Rose Elliot.  Time and time again this woman comes to my rescue with ideas for my excessive supply of whatever vegetable I have on hand at the time.   Everything in this particular cookbook promises to be prepared in 30 minutes or less.  My kind of meal!

Since the chard is still going strong from a year ago, we have a plentiful supply almost all ...

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Huntington Revisited

As a guilty pleasure, or let's say...a business expense, I renewed my long-lost membership to the Huntington Library and Gardens this spring.  I haven't been in years (since gas prices went up - it's a bit of a drive to get there from where I live). In fact, I hadn't been back since the Huntington opened their Chinese and Children's' Gardens.  I was really looking forward to seeing the "new to me" installations, and sauntering through the rose garden and other old stomping grounds.

Let me tell you, it didn't disappoint.  My first stop was the Shakespeare Garden, which ...

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