Planting Bare Root Strawberries

Our strawberry patch thrived for about 7 years. We ignored common lore that you have to replace your strawberry plants every couple of years and did something different instead: every…

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Field Trip: Little Farm in Encino, CA

We're about to take you on a journey to a magical place; a place where tropical and rare fruits grow in abundance, where grapevines climb arbors, where goats, chickens, rabbits…

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YouTube: How to Plant Tomatoes

It's tomato season, and we've got ours in the ground already. It may be early for some, but we're experiencing 80 degree days this week, so we took a chance…

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Cats in the Garden: Our New Addition

There's a new member of our garden's ecosystem, and her name is Mittens. This little black and white cat arrived to our neighborhood in November, and has been courting us…

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Gardening Joys – Harvesting Corn

There’s an old adage that advises corn growers to have the water boiling before you pick the corn.   So as I write this there is a pot of water coming to a boil on the stove. It’s harvest time
for sweet corn here in our test garden, and here’s the blow-by-blow:

We grew Stowell’s Sweet Corn, an heirloom variety, for the first time this year. We planted 20 plants in a 4×4 square foot bed (using Grow BioIntensive hexagonal spacing. Confession: the bed should
only have fit 16 plants, but we …

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