06-24-10 Summer Beginnings

06-24-10 Summer Beginnings In this issue: June in the Garden Stuff to Do Gardenerd Tip of the Month: All About Leeks Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd Hand Care Kit…

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Gardenerd’s Trusted Links & Resources

Check back often for newly added links. Some of the links below include an affiliate link. Gardenerd makes a few cents with these affiliate programs. Thanks for your support! Seeds…

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Gallery & Testimonials

Garden design testimonialsClasses testimonialsConsulting testimonialsSite testimonials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59eIxIm7czo View examples of our gardens Organic Edible Garden Design "We love our new little garden. Our kids, who helped plant everything, rush out…

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Latest News

PressPress Releases Gardenerd News & Calendar Christy celebrated National Gardenerd Day on April 14, 2021 by sharing gardening tips on KTLA News. Watch the 4.5 minute segment here. Check out…

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Do You Bokashi? – Part 1

I’m delighted to present a guest post from Mark Rainville, one of my fellow gardeners at Ocean View Farms, who has been experimenting with E.M.
Bokashi over the last year. This is the first installment to get you started down the fabulous road to fermented tea as fertilizer / soil conditioner. Take it away, Mark:

With all of the home composting options available, the bokashi food scrap fermentation system is one of the easiest and can be the

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The Next Step in Urban Homesteading – Keeping Chickens

Call me a control freak, but I like to know where my food comes from. I started growing my own food to get fresh, healthy produce, to use
less water, fewer pesticides and harmful chemicals – but really, to know where my food comes from. That was great, but I thought, “What else can I do to close the loop here?  To be more
self-reliant?”  Composting and

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2010 Gardens of Gratitude

It’s almost time for the 2nd Annual Gardens of Gratitude event. It takes place on April 24th and 25th, 2010 in
Los Angeles, and if you have a space that you want to transform into a vegetable garden, this is your chance to get help from your community (not to mention compost, advice, and a chance to
make new friends).

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Vegetable Gardening in Colorado Springs

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to grow things in specific parts of the country.  Here’s one that might apply to other places in the US:

Hi there!  I live in Colorado Springs, CO – where it’s really cold for
about 7 months of the year, with snow off and on. We want to start our
own backyard veggie and fruit garden, but don’t know where to start.   We
are not sure if much will grow out here.  Our family eats a vegetarian
life style…for health and other reasons.  Any tips or contacts out
here? Thanks and GREAT …

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