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Gardenerd Video on Youtube – Garlic Braiding
About 7 years ago, I took a day trip up to Gilroy for the World Famous Garlic Festival. My goal was to learn how to braid garlic. I came away from the event with the skill set to sally forth in the garlic braiding department forever more (along with some serious garlic breath). Each year, in order to keep the pile of garlic that I harvest (and cure for about 6 weeks) from cluttering up my counter tops, I braid the year's harvest and hang it in the kitchen for easy access.
This year, I decided to ...
Squash Bonanza
It appears that the zucchini and Bennings Green Tint patty pan squash have officially kicked into high gear - and it's not even summer yet! This is a crucial time - when one needs to visit the garden every day, lest there be a monster squash discovered after a few days away from the garden. So far, so good. We're catching the summer squash early and picking them young. Now to find recipes...
I have a favorite recipe for zucchini, but you
might want to save it for when your sick of zucchini, because when
you're done with this ...
Marrakesh House Photos
This weekend was the Grand Opening of a property that I've been working on for a year - Marrakesh House. Along with the garden, the home's green design elements were featured on Green LA Girl last week, in promotion of the event. Check out the article and photos.
Green LA Girl Blog - Marrakesh House
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Late Spring Harvest
With a tiny bit of rain drizzling down this morning, I harvested a few things from the garden. It's very exciting on a number of levels.
The first requires a little story: I didn't plant eggplant this year - I planted it last year. It was attacked by flea beetles early on and in fall when the time came to clear the raised bed, I decided to leave the plants because they were showing signs of new growth. So they overwintered, and when spring came they had grown to a very respectable size. Then they flowered and set ...
What’s Growing in Your Garden?
I've been getting some feedback from fellow gardenerds lately about what's growin' on in their gardens this spring. I thought I'd post it and invite you to share what's working or not working in your garden this year as well.
"Our garden is really blooming. My mom
gave Ronnie an upside-down tomato plant for Christmas. He planted that
about 2 months ago. One day it all of a sudden exploded. The plant
grows out the bottom and up around the 'cage'. Within a few hours it
had grown almost to the top of that cage. There are several flowers on
it now ...
Gardenerd on Good Food Blog
I've been a fan of Good Food, a weekend radio show on KCRW, for years. In fact, I'm a lazy podcaster - I only download two podcasts and one of them is Good Food. Imagine my delight when I was asked to write an article for the Good Food Blog! Here is the May 21, 2009 post: De-mystifying Asparagus. FYI - the pictures included with the blog are from our asparagus patch in the Gardenerd Teaching Garden. Enjoy!
Tomato Seedling Sale in El Camino
This just came to me via one of my clients. If you happen to still need tomato seedlings now is your chance to get them cheap in the Los Angeles area:Hi All,
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Houston, We Have Some Squash
I admit it, I went a little crazy. I was determined to have a successful squash crop in the wake of last year's squash catastrophe. So I planned for extra, you might say. This season, at Ocean View Farms, I planted Delicata and Butternut Squashes. While at the Gardenerd Teaching Garden, we planted zucchini, patty pan, yellow crookneck and pumpkin.
The First round of zucchini and patty pan squash were eaten by birds. So were the second round. So then we planted seeds indoors to make sure nothing went wrong. That did the trick. Meanwhile, the pumpkins and ...
Mega Garlic
Garlic was one of the very first things I planted when I started gardening 16 years ago. There's something about the magic of putting a clove in the ground and getting a bulb back at the end of the season that made me want to try it immediately. That first year, my boyfriend and I planted garlic cloves in unamended clay soil (clearly we didn't know anything about compost at the time). We watered it every day and watched it grow. 7 months later, we harvested what has become the best garlic I've ever grown in my life. ...