We’re heading into our first (and most likely only) trade show of the
year. You can come visit the Gardenerd.com booth, #106, to get your burning gardening questions answered, enter for a chance to win an Ultimate Garden Bag, and pick up some of your favorite
Gardenerd Gear at …
Gardenerd.com has partnered with the Woolly Pocket Company and School Nutrition Plus to create a pilot program for school gardens that not only integrates the garden into the curriculum, but gives the children something to take into the cafeteria too! Over the last two days we converted an abandoned garden area on the campus of Santa Monica Blvd. Community Charter School into a revitalized growing space that includes a vertical garden!
We started with weeds, old raised beds, tired soil and lots of odds and ends (we even found a shoe). There was a lemon tree starving for sunlight …
As a guilty pleasure, or let’s say…a business expense, I renewed my long-lost membership to the Huntington Library and Gardens this spring. I haven’t been in years (since gas prices went up – it’s a bit of a drive to get there from where I live). In fact, I hadn’t been back since the Huntington opened their Chinese and Children’s’ Gardens. I was really looking forward to seeing the “new to me” installations, and sauntering through the rose garden and other old stomping grounds.
Let me tell you, it didn’t disappoint. My first stop was the Shakespeare Garden, which …
This event came across my desk this week, sent by a student from my Santa Monica College class, Lise Matthews. Root Down LA is striving to reduce the number of kids with obesity in the city buy helping to create “healthier school food communities”. A very worthy cause…
We’re
RootDown LA and we’re on a mission to help tackle the obesity crisis in
South LA by engaging youth at Manual Arts …
Back in January, during our California Adventure trip, we spent a day on campus at University of California, Santa Cruz.
A couple months ago, I got a call from a mother of two who was looking to plant a vegetable garden in her back yard. The problem was that they had recently remodeled the yard, installing a large stone patio that pretty much ruled out a vegetable garden. The yard was beautiful will all of its new improvements, and it seemed to me that planting in containers right on top of the patio would be our best option, especially since that spot got more direct sunlight than any other part of the yard.
After a consultation, Michelle decided to shop for some nice …
On Easter, I spent some time with my brother and his wife and their 20 month year old daughter, Arianwen (that’s a Welsh name, pronounced
Ar-e-ahn-wen). Not only am I completely in love with this child, I am completely biased in believing that everything she does is magical and fabulous. This Easter proved to be
no different, when Arianwen began to garden right before my eyes.
Since it fits into our theme, I felt compelled to share some home videos. I know, I know, it’s ridiculous to think that anyone would be interested in watching my niece garden, but it’s
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Today I treated myself to a trip to one of my favorite nurseries, The Marina Garden Center, and bought a few more herbs to add to my culinary herb garden…