YouTube: Shelling Peas – Grow, Harvest, Store
Our latest YouTube video shows you everything you need to know about shelling peas -- how to grow, harvest, and store them for later use.
Check out our latest video with an unboxing!
YouTube: GreenStalk Ultimate Spinner Unboxing
Our latest video features the unboxing of a new product from the folks at GreenStalk Gardens. They sent it to us awhile ago to test out, but Covid shipping issues held up their supply. Now it's back in stock so we're testing it out on a fruit tree in a pot. Watch as Christy unboxes the Spinner and installs it at Gardenerd HQ. Unboxing the GreenStalk Ultimate Spinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjvoxyNJLhc Note: Gardenerd is an affiliate member of GreenStalk, and if you…
Toni shares adaptive techniques for easier gardening
Podcast: Adaptive Gardening with Toni Gattone
Toni Gattone is our guest this week on the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. Toni is a garden speaker, educator, and the author of The Lifelong Gardener: Gardening with Ease and Joy at Any Age. She shares her tricks for adaptive gardening and gardening as we age.
Kale varieties include Siberian, Lacinato, Red Russian, Scarlet, Vates Blue Curly and Tronchuda Beira.
It’s Kale Season!
In honor of our first kale harvest (albeit the lower leaves of each young kale plant), I want to celebrate the start of kale season with recipes. Fall is my favorite growing season, mainly because kale grows without attracting aphids.
Our Navel oranges are just starting to turn color. Soon we'll be eating these over the sink.
Wordless Wednesday: Transition Times
Summer has given way to fall, and while it's still hot in places, the gardener's eye is set on cooler, shorter days.
Fall Garden Planning Webinar – This Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021
Join in this Saturday's Fall Garden Planning Webinar to learn the techniques and strategies for an abundant garden this fall. This one-hour virtual version will teach you everything you need to know to plan your cool-season crops on paper. You can join from anywhere in the world.
Our first radish harvest of fall. Left to right, French Breakfast, Cherry Belle, Helios, Purple Plum, and Pink Beauty
Wordless Wednesday: December Gardening
December gardening may not be a thing in northern and cold-winter climates, but we're moving full steam ahead here in Southern California.
Podcast: Bare Root Fruit Trees with Christy
This week on the podcast it's just you and me, gardenerds, and we're talking bare root fruit trees and perennial vegetables. Now is a great time to pre-order these items for your garden
Brassicas move from under grow lights to garden beds.
Wordless Wednesday: Fall Gardening is ON!
There's a sense of newness as the fall garden comes to life. Seeds burst forth, transplanted seedlings grow new leaves, and empty spaces fill in with color and texture.
Rachel Jepson Wolf surrounds herself with herbs.
Podcast: Unplugged Family Activities with Rachel Jepson Wolf
The pandemic has led to cabin fever and Zoom burnout, so this week our conversation with Rachel Jepson Wolf inspires unplugged family activities that celebrate the seasons.