07-18-12 Sizzling Summer

In this issue: July in the Garden Pesto Time Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Saving Kale Seeds Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd Tank Top   1. July in the…

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06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters

06-27-12 June Exits, July Enters In this issue: June in the Garden Organic Gardening 101- July 15th Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Zucchini Cobbler Gardenerd Product of the Month: Gardenerd…

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04-25-12 The Only Planet We’ve Got

4-25-12 The Only Planet We've Got In this issue: April in the Garden Composting Class - short version Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Spring Cleaning Gardenerd Product of the Month:…

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Dealing with Apple Scab

This week’s guest blogger is David King from the Learning Garden. He’s a great friend and an amazing gardener who does more for the Los Angeles gardening scene than I have space to write. Today he shares his helpful tips
for managing apple scab. Take it away David!


For many of us wanting to grow more food on our own, fruits and nuts from trees comprise a major part …

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2012 Olympic Gardening Events

The 2012 Summer Olympics, with all of its pageantry and intense competition, runs the gamut featuring “26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines,”
according to Wikipedia. But we feel that the Olympic Committee has left a few important garden-related sporting events out of the competition this year. Perhaps  we’ll see one of these Top
5 Gardening Events at the Olympics
next time in Rio:

1) …

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Saving Kale Seeds

Most gardeners are lucky if their kale plants last through the summer. We’ve been blessed with a Lacinato kale that has been growing for over a
year and a half. It’s a magic plant; it survived cut worms, it resisted powdery mildew, and it never, ever got aphids. We’re definitely saving seeds from this plant.

Now over 10 feet tall, and listing to one side, the time has come to pull the plant (before it decapitates someone when it falls). …

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