Gardenerd on Your Daily Thread
Gardenerd.com was featured on Your Daily Thread this week. Tracy Hepler of YDT came to visit the Gardenerd test garden and sat down to interview me last week It was great to share with her all the great things coming up in the world of gardening.
For those who don't know, Your Daily Thread is LA's Neighborhood Guide to Conscious Living. You can get a daily dose of what's green in LA and find out about upcoming green events throughout the city. Here is the article featured on YDT:
99.9% Homegrown Soup
It's hot as Hades and fires are burning everywhere. The last thing on my mind is to fire up the oven to make dinner.
A Season of Orach
It's sort of mean that we can't grow salad greens in the summer here in So Cal. It's too hot and they bolt to seed so quickly. I've tried growing lettuces under shade cloth and that helps a lot, but it's nowhere near as delicious as fall-grown salad greens. One way to combat the heat is to grow slow-bolt or heat tolerant varieties. Another is to try something completely different.
Enter Orach Mountain Spinach.
I know I've talked about this fantastic green before, but I'm going to expound on the wonders of Orach again because this year was particularly ...
Taming of the Asparagus
I'm a little bit of a late bloomer. Or maybe it's just that I get used to looking at - or stepping over - something that's in my way and then I don't do anything about it for a long time. It's kind of like that pile of laundry in the middle of the room. It doesn't go away, but you start to ignore it - so it really isn't there any more, right?
This was the case with the wild patch of asparagus in the raised beds. We're at the end of our second year, which means that ...
Eggplant Parmigiana – Under the Tuscan Sun Style
I'll admit it. I've never made eggplant parmigiana. I ate it growing up; as a picky eater it was probably the only way I'd ever eat eggplant. So leave it to a gardenerd to grow eggplant and not know what to do with the finished result. Until now.
I've been hoarding a copy of Frances Mayes Bringing Tuscany Home for a few years now, just waiting for the perfect moment to strike, when I felt confident enough to try making what I thought would be a daunting recipe. The torn piece of paper marking the page was nearly withered ...
Adventures with City Mulch
Awhile ago, my husband and I decided to put a hold on our backyard design project until the economy levels off. This of course took place after we had ripped out most of the existing plants and installed drainage and irrigation materials. So we had a lovely expanse of dirt we were perfectly willing to live with (which many students have seen if you've come to a class at the house and test garden).
Of course, what happens when you have a large expanse of dirt? You get weeds.
We needed mulch to cover the dirt. Lots of ...
Gardenerd.com on LA Times.com Today
Just caught sight of a post on the LA Times Blog in the Home Section about our upcoming Fall Garden Planning Workshop. Check it out here:
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Pumpkins on the Early Side
Believe it or not, our pumpkins have finished up already this year. Now we're baking up the best pumpkin bread around with them.
Tomatos on the Grand Scale
A student sent me an e-mail today with a headline from the New York Times. It seems to shed some light on the problem we've been having with tomatoes this year.
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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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