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Woolly School Gardens Needs Your Vote!

Yes, Woolly School Gardens needs your vote, and I’ll tell you about that in just a minute, but first a little story:

On Tuesday, June 1st, I had the opportunity to help install two Woolly School Gardens at two neighboring schools in downtown Los Angeles. Together with a team of Woolly gardeners, we filled Pockets
with soil and planted food gardens for students to enjoy. We planted herbs like sage, chives (which some of the kids pronounced chee-vess), thyme, basil, rosemary and …

MinifarmBox© and the Land Grab

Oh sure, I’ve got plenty of growing space in my raised beds, but sometimes that’s just not enough. Sometimes you have to take over the
place.

I feel like a warrior — or maybe a gold rush prospector; I’ve just made a minor land-grab in my own
back yard.

Let me e’splain: I met up with Conor Fitzpatrick on the last day of Tomatomania, where I …

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 …

Death of a Garden

A great question came in this week:

“Hi, I started a 8×10 garden in my backyard full of veggies and herbs this past summer, yet everything has died except for a few herbs because I did nothing when it froze here in Dallas…What
should I have done if anything to have saved it and how can I start growing things now and what is best to plant. Thanx from newbie gardener…. “

You’re not alone this winter. In fact, unless …

Meet the 2010 Spring/Summer Organic Seed Collection

It’s coming upon that time of year when all the 2010 seed catalogs begin to show up in the mail. It is my opinion that seed catalogs are best reviewed in the
comfort of one’s own bed, with plenty of pillows around to prop them all open to one’s favorite pages.

It can be overwhelming. So many different seeds to choose from, so many questions about what might grow well in your hardiness zone. Well, over the years, we’ve …

Put a Lid on those Critters!

Don't let bugs take the fun out of growing summer squash and melons. Use this cheap trick to keep critters clear of your crops.

First Summer Harvest

Even though we’ve been harvesting squash for awhile now (see “Zucchini Anyone?”), it doesn’t really feel like a summer harvest until the tomatoes start showing up. This week, it’s official! They’re red and ready to start pickin’ at the Gardenerd test garden.

Although, to say that they’re red would be discriminatory. These heirloom tomatoes are ripening in nearly every color of the rainbow. Red is almost passe with all the delectable heirloom options out there.

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Late Spring Harvest

With a tiny bit of rain drizzling down this morning, I harvested a few things from the garden. It’s very exciting on a number of levels.

The first requires a little story: I didn’t plant eggplant this year – I planted it last year. It was attacked by flea beetles early on and in fall when the time came to clear the raised bed, I decided to leave the plants because they were showing signs of new growth. So they overwintered, and when spring came they had grown to a very respectable size. Then they flowered and set …