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Summer Party Ideas

Garden harvests are too good to keep to yourself. Use these summer gathering ideas to share the abundance this season.

Put Up or Eat Up

Preserving, or putting up goes hand in hand with gardening. Learn how to store your tomato harvest for a rainy day.

Gardenerd Potluck Makes the LA Times

Thanks to our fabulous Nicole and her endeavors in PR, our upcoming Summer Harvest Potluck and Seed Exchange got a mention on the LA Times
blog this morning. Check it out and come join us for fun and food in the summer sun!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2010/07/gardenerd-garden-nerd-seed-exchange.html

For more details, visit the Gardenerd Website.

Happy Gardening!

Can Do Tomatoes

I grew 23 tomato plants this year for two reasons: 1) to make up for last year's blight and subsequent crappy harvest, and 2) to have enough to can some…

Gardenerd’s Summer Potluck and Seed Exchange

One of the best ways to celebrate the bountiful harvest of summer is to get together with friends. Just imagine platters of veggies grilled
to perfection, mounds of fresh tomatoes ready for eating, and slices of watermelon – the quintessential summer fruit – all lined up on a table amongst friends.

Now picture another table blanketed with seed packets, with small envelopes nearby. You see a vegetable variety that you’ve been dying to try in your garden. …

15-year old Strawberry Pie

Have you ever had a recipe lying around that you keep for years, just knowing that someday you’ll make it? Year after year, I’ve
flipped through my binder of torn-out recipes from magazines that I’ve collected over time. My eyes have landed on this one page a hundred times, and each time I’ve promised myself I’ll make
it. This week I finally made good on that promise – 15 years later.

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Use those Leeks

Leeks are easy to grow and great to cook with. This week's tip features a simple recipe for your summer harvest.

Testing Sunlight

Here’s a recent question that came in last week:

“I have lots of shade but some sun in my front yard. Combination of city trees, large bushes I don’t want to part with etc. I seem to remember a device that one can put in a spot to determine
the amount of sun it gets per day. I want to try to incorporate veggies into the landscape and this would help tell me where. Do you know where I might find this and …