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Front Yard Veggies in Manhattan Beach

We got one step closer to our goal of replacing all lawns in Los Angeles with useful growing spaces. The Winship family had a front lawn that
wasn’t serving them, and it was the only area of their property that had full sun for growing vegetables (as is the case with many homes).

I met with them to discuss what they wanted in a vegetable garden: raised beds, enough room to grow herbs, and something they could …

What To Do With All That Cabbage?

Every fall I grow several heads of cabbage to enjoy in winter and spring as the rest of the garden gets going. But year after year, I find myself wondering
what to do with the cabbage I’ve grown. Sound familiar? Well, I’ve found a few great ways to use cabbage that I thought I’d share here.

Cabbage, chard, broccoli, green onions, cilantro, arugula and mustard greens make up the winter harvest

Aside from …

Composting, Worms and Shade Gardening

Another great question came in this week:

“Hello, I have a worm bin that I use to throw all my compostable items in such as veggies,eggshells, paper etc. I also have a big compost bin next to my worm bin, it is about a quarter full. I
throw junk mail and grass clippings, tree clippings, whatever is too big for my worm bin goes in this big bin. Could I add worms to this big bin as well to aid in the speed of the …

When Aphids Attack!

A great question came in this week from a cauliflower gardener:

“I was so excited to have just harvested my first cauliflower! It was big, beautiful and infested with little grayish white bugs! (aphids, I think?). I couldn’t salvage it because there were
literally hundreds embedded just beneath the tops of the florets. I have several other cauliflower plants growing, some are new, some almost ready to harvest. Is there anything I can do to prevent
future infestations?”

First of all, congratulations …

Safe Canning

We do our best to preserve our harvest, but now we're being thwarted by the presence of BPAs in our canning lids. Find out how to avoid this.

New Home Construction for Worms

Santa was very good to me this year. I got the Worm Factory that I wished for, and we couldn’t wait to move our worms to their new home. My husband and I
carefully read through the instructions that were included with the Factory and found it very informative – above and beyond the usual information that you might see in a vermiculture
pamphlet.

We assembled the unit, and then moved on …

Christmas Garden Wish List ’09

In my family, the holiday wish list is requested from each member sometime in September and then no one is allowed to buy themselves anything they put on the
list until after Christmas. It’s hard to comply sometimes, especially when all they stuff I want usually goes on sale. My list consists mainly of gardening supplies, so it has become a
tradition to post the wish list on the Gardenerd Blog each year. So without further adieu… …

Malibu Vegetable Garden Delight

I had the good fortune to be introduced to Shalane Respondek and her world of LEED certified property development. She brought me in to design a vegetable
garden for her new Malibu property over the summer. They were still finishing the house and major landscaping projects, so it would be awhile before we could start on the garden, but the ideas
were flowing from the beginning.

I saw …