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Tomato Tasting Party – Everybody Wins!

We have a tradition with a longtime friend in which we gather together, bringing our best tomatoes each season, to share in the bounty of the summer harvest. We slice them with care and taste each
variety to determine our favorites. There is olive oil and salt, a little basil, and very good bread on hand. Each time we’ve done a tasting we have come away with a new favorite. This year was no
exception.

We gathered in the garden with our contributions and began with show and tell. My husband and …

Growing Grains in Small Spaces

A great question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week:

“I am looking to purchase a variety of grain seeds. Not bulk, not for production? Yet. My goal is start growing and saving seeds from planter pots, as my yard is xeriscaped and I am in the
process of trying to sell my home. This way once I move I should have seeds for planting a small scale grain garden for personal use. Where can I find open-pollinated grain seeds that are not
planting a whole flappin’ acre at a time?”
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Quick Garden Refresher

Have you ever planted mint, thinking that it would be a nice addition to your vegetable or herb garden, only to find that in no time at all
it had taken over your garden and choked out your veggies? Well that’s what happened to Joan Wilner in Beverly Hills. She called me up to rescue her waning vegetable garden from the claws
of the overwhelming mint patch a couple of weeks ago.

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Come Join Us at the Go Green Expo

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 Organic Gardening Series Weekend Intensive

Coming up next week, the Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series will be offered for the first time ever as a Weekend Intensive.

What’s Working…and Not Working

This season has been an interesting one. I've had luck this year with plants I've tried (and failed) to grow for the past 11 years. At the same time, I've…

HR 875 – Organic Consumers Association’s take on it

In an effort to read more into the recent rumor (or ‘myth’ as the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has put it) about HR 875 and the idea that it would ban organic farming, I found that the OCA website has been either hacked or blocked by every major search engine out there. It smells of conspiracy, since they are the voice of the people when it comes to organic standards and food safety. Not that I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I thought it was uncanny that while e-mails are flying around about this bill, the …

Announcing – Organic Gardening Class Times and Dates!

The VIP group already got this information earlier in the week, but I don’t want to leave anyone out of the loop:

SAVE THE DATE!

Saturday, February 23, 2008, 9:30 a.m. – The Basics 1 – Soil, Soil Amendments and Fertilizers

Saturday, March 1, 2008, 9:30 a.m. – The Basics 2 – Small Space and Container Gardening

(No class on March 8th)

Saturday, March 15, 2008, 9:30 a.m. …