Volunteer stinging nettles will becomes soup this week.
Pick-Your-Own Stinging Nettles
Stinging nettles volunteered at Gardenerd HQ, then we put out the call for a Pick-Your-Own party.
Come see Need To Grow and learn how to save our topsoil
Event: Need To Grow Screening & Panel
Local Angelinos can come watch a free screening of the documentary, Need To Grow. Then stay for the panel discussion with me and two other experts after the film.
Gardenerd Joins the Great Grow Along
Spring is upon us, and we're excited to be part of the Great Grow Along, a virtual garden conference taking place this March 19-21, 2021. Christy, along with 40+ other garden experts, will share her tips and tidbits for successful gardening.
Learn to make compost that jump starts your garden each season
Composting Webinar This Saturday – May 16, 2020
Learn the tricks for great composting this Saturday as Christy hosts a 1-hour quick and dirty composting webinar on Zoom.
Christy with Scott Daigre, producer of TomatoMania.
TomatoMania Classes Start Friday!
This year, Gardenerd is partnering with TomatoMania to present the Gardenerd Education Series. We've lined up great speakers who are ready to share their tomato-growing expertise.
Pomodorino del Piennolo del Vesuvio (hanging bundles of southern Italian tomatoes) on display.
Throw a Tomato Tasting Party!
I recently attended the Ocean View Farms tomato tasting celebration 2019 and ate my way through more than 70 varieties of tomatoes to help determine the best of the best.
Can you believe we have a second crop of loquats forming on the tree? Those late-summer hot days triggered fruit-set.
Wordless Wednesday – A Cranking Fall Garden
Winter is coming, but fall is still here. If there's one message this Wordless Wednesday coveys, it's that fall gardening is the best growing season in Southern California. If you're…
Our test garden kicks into gear.
Gardenerd HQ Fall Test Garden Tour – Dec. 16, 2017
We hope you can join us for our first Gardenerd HQ Fall Test Garden Tour. We're grateful for mild winters because fall is the best growing season for our favorite…
Long tables sloped up the hill. We sat listing to one side but the food more than made up for it.
Review: Outstanding in the Field
You've probably heard of them, these renowned dinners with elaborate, farm-fresh menus eaten on long-tables in the middle of a field somewhere. Outstanding in the Field (OITF) dinners are a…
3rd Year Asparagus …and they’re off!
(cue movie voice-over guy)
It's been three years in the making...
and one woman has been waiting a lifetime...
but will she be ready for...
ASPARAGUS HARVEST 2010!
(fade in on woman in garden hat, carrying gardening pruners, running from the kitchen door to the asparagus bed. She snips a few spears with a smile on her face, runs back to the
kitchen.
Clock shows that 5 minutes passes. ...