Meet The Author
Now that Gardening for Geeks is on the shelves, it's time to celebrate with a chance to "Meet the Author" and talk dirt (soil, that is). Here are some upcoming…
Changing of the Guard: Exit Winter, Enter Spring
Spring is just around the corner, and those who can grow fall crops are just starting to swap out winter's harvest for spring seedlings. Here's what we're harvesting this time…
Colorful watermelon radishes enliven this salad
Recipe: Watermelon Radish & Goat Cheese Salad
Just to be clear, it's not a watermelon and a radish in this salad, it's two Watermelon Radishes. If you haven't grown them, put them on your list of "musts"…
The "thermal" in active batch thermal composting
Active Batch Composting
What the heck is "Active Batch Composting" anyway? You're about to find out, but first let's look at another term: Cold composting. Cold composting, though the name is a bit…
Linda's husband, Richard's recording studio overlooks a slope of rosemary, fruit trees and artichokes.
Field Trip: Permaculture / Biodynamic Garden
Field trips are always fun because you get to see concepts in practice. Visiting Linda Gibbs' garden was no exception. I stopped by her Malibu home last week for a…
New bed, ready for compost and plants
Turning Cover Crops
Let us depart from conventional wisdom of turning cover crops into the soil beneath. Let us instead take a lesson from John Jeavons' GROW BIOINTENSIVE method and use the cover…
Purple, orange and yellow carrots await you
Grow Rainbow Carrots
You can enjoy a rainbow of colors in your meals if you grow carrots. What? You mean they're not just orange? Let us explore. They may take awhile to grow,…
Completed garden with cool season crops planted. We left room for warm season crops, which will be planted next month.
Family’s New Vegetable Garden
A student from my Santa Monica College gardening course hired me to design a vegetable garden - a few raised beds so his family could grow tomatoes, salad greens and…
U-pins hold netting in place to keep curious hens from crawling out underneath.
Wider Pastures: New Chicken Run
We were lucky. Our chickens never really discovered the garden. They simply stayed within bounds to peck and scratch the day away. Until last week. Their eyes have been opened…
Kale Salad ready for scarfing.
Recipe: Northern Spy Kale Salad
For winter gardeners, kale is a staple crop that we have the pleasure of harvesting all season long. It grows well in spring in cooler climates, so for those covered…