Just a quick note that a new article I wrote on veggies that grow in spring has been published on the www.lowimpactliving.com blog. If you want to go directly there, you can click
here:
http://www.lowimpactliving.com/blog/2008/04/20/spring-garden-planting-guide/
Check out the rest of the website for great tips on lowering your carbon footprint in your daily lives.
Happy Gardening!
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This weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting a woman who recently decided to tear up her front lawn for a low-water Xeriscape solution. Sherri and her husband wanted to embrace the idea of a lawn-less life, so they hired a landscape designer to help them get started. Here's what Sherri had to say about the project:
"Our most recent effort was tackling our lawns – and this has been the most satisfying project so far! The drought conditions in Southern California ..."
I'm not at all a Seinfeld fan, but for some reason, Kramer's Festivus holiday jumped out of my head and into the title of this entry. I guess that his enthusiasm for celebration
was so similar to what I have been feeling when I'm out in the garden these days. Something new has gone in the ground each day this week. The promise of new life, new varieties and
(crossing our fingers) no gophers has taken over my head.
Here is a quick list of what has been planted from seed this week:
Lettuces - 6 different heirloom varieties
Arugula
Mustard Greens
Golden Chard
Orach ...
On Saturday, we rounded out the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series with the final class on Pruning, Tools and Tool Care.
Shhhhhh... they're sleeping. Actually, they're not sleeping, they're growing big and strong.
A new article I recently wrote for Low Impact Living has been featured on this week's How-To-Tuesday. Low Impact Living is a great website with
tons of ideas on how to go green in your home and lifestyle. Check out the site and this blog posting:
Organic Gardening 101 -
How-To-Tuesday
Happy Gardening, everyone!
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Today we completed the third installment in the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series on Seed-starting, Transplants and Heirlooms, and I think this was
my favorite class so far. There's something about nursing little babies (I mean the seedlings, not the beginning gardeners) to life. We started the class with an overview of seeds -
how to store them properly, how to interpret the seed packet information, and how to test for seed viability.
Then we moved on to discuss the difference between heirlooms, open-pollinated seeds, and hybrids. It was good to review those differences, since I constantly have to look ...
This week's Tip of the week is our first that is broadcasting on iTunes. You can subscribe by going to iTunes (which is downloadable for free)
or you can visit our home page and click on
the Podcast icon under the Latest Gardenerd News. For those with less inclination in the ways of the computer. Just click below and listen.
Enjoy!
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The second class in the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series went over even better than the first. We had 12 fellow gardenerd there, all with
plenty of questions. We talked about bio-intensive gardening, and growing plants in containers and raised beds.
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Gardenerd.com is proud to announce that we are now podcasting on iTunes! If you open iTunes and type Gardenerd into the search box in the
top right hand corner of your screen you, then click on the Podcasts (see all) display, you will be taken to the page where you will find our little green and white logo with the famous
Gardenerd carrot.
The first 3 Tips of the Week are posted and the new one for the week of March 9th should show up Monday morning. In the meanwhile, here it is for your listening
enjoyment. Feel free to send feedback to podcast@gardenerd.com. We're ...