New 400+ Tips Gardening Book for Summer!
We're pleased to announce the arrival of 400+ Tips for Organic Gardening Success: A Decade of Tricks, Tools, Recipes, and Resources from Gardenerd.com. It's been ten years in the making…
The recipe makes about 2 pints
Recipe: Blackberry Jam
Blackberry season comes on strong, and if you don't embrace it, your garden will have an understory of rotten blackberries within a month. We've already frozen 3 pints of berries,…
Let artichokes go to flower. We'll save seeds from this Winnetka Purple artichoke for the Seed Library of Los Angeles.
Wordless Wednesday: Gardening for a Healthy Planet
I can't believe I have to refer back to this article I wrote in February, but it's more appropriate than ever now. While it's comforting to see the rest of…
Flowers appear at the tip-top of our tree kale plant.
Guess What! Tree Kale Does Go to Seed
I've heard colleagues say that tree kale never goes to seed, that it can only be propagated by cuttings. Well, my 10-foot tree kale would beg to differ. It's gone…
Food grade barrels are best for use in vegetable gardens.
Being Prepared
A building caught fire in our neighborhood recently, leading to a power outage for two hours. The lack of internet and electricity, even for a short time, reminds us how…
The vertical garden is planted with spring and summer crops.
Design: Vertical Patio Garden Delight
We recently created a tidy vertical garden for a busy business woman in Marina del Rey. Her condominium patio didn't allow room for a full-sized garden, and tight quarters limited…
Benefits Of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) changed the way farmers do business. No longer do they have to go through a middle man to reach the consumer, they can sell direct. It…
Fresh strawberries from everbearing plants. We love Seascapes! Feed with kelp emulsion every two weeks.
Wordless Wednesday: May
May is here and the garden begins to show signs of fruit. Flowers have been going off since April, but now is the time for summer fruits and veggies to…
Rosemary is flowering now. We'll prune it back by a third when flowers finishing.
YouTube: Trees and Shrubs for Bees
We continue our Plants for Pollinators Series with Honeylove.org. Our latest video gives you helpful suggestions for trees and shrubs you can plant for the pollinators in your life. They…
Silks out at 1-foot tall. UGH!
Corn Failure A.K.A. Starting Over
In a small-space garden, the beds aren't always ready when it's time to plant new crops in the ground, so if we start seeds in flats, we close the gap…