YouTube: Grow Romanesco – The Underappreciated Brassica
Our latest video makes a case to grow Romanesco, the underappreciated Brassica. Why grow Romanesco? Christy shares her reasons why.
Mittens stands guard in Gardenerd HQ's test garden.
Wordless Wednesday: New Life in Fall
In warm-winter climates, fall brings new life as much as spring does. It is a shedding of tired, old plants and a chance to grow new crops for another season.
Apparently we are known as the place to drop off leftover pumpkins after Halloween. The chickens will love these once we crack them open.
Wordless Wednesday: Just Getting Started
While many folks are shutting down their gardens for winter, we're just getting started here at Gardenerd HQ. Here's some inspiration for your fall garden.
Brassicas under grow lights
Too Hot to Plant
Twenty five years ago, when I started gardening in Southern California, we planted cool weather crops in September. As Climate Change increased, September became too hot to plant. Now we plant brassicas, lettuces, alliums (onions, garlic, shallots, etc.) and root veggies in October. No...wait. Now October is too hot to plant. It's October 25th and it's going to be 95 degrees on the westside. This post is for those experiencing this weather in lower latitudes. Last year we didn't plant…
Radishes and kale planted in Square Foot Gardening fashion
Fall Gardening in Progress
While cooler climates are closing down the garden for winter, we're just getting started here in So-Cal. Fall gardening is commonly known as the "best" growing season here because we actually get rain, temperatures are cooler, and everything grows virtually bug-free. What's not to love? <moment of silence for places covered in snow right now> Fall gardening also features some of the "better" veggies (sorry tomatoes): lettuces, cabbages, broccoli, mustard greens, and kale. Here in the Gardenerd Test garden, we're…
Swiss chard is ready for harvest. Cilantro bolts to seed, attracting aphid-destroying parasitic wasps.
Fall Garden in Progress – Part 2
Last week we shared what's growin' on in our Test Garden. Now let's look at what the fall garden looks like over at our community garden plot. In just a few weeks it's transformed from the dry, spent garden of summer to an active cool-weather garden with oodles of potential. Lettuces, broccoli, cabbage, chard, garlic, shallots and root crops are all making way in the garden. Cilantro, parsley, mache (a.k.a. corn salad) and arugula will keep salads interesting this winter.…