Gardenerd visits with landscape architect Billy Goodnick.
Landscaping Tips with Billy Goodnick
We talk shop about Landscaping Tips with our podcast guest, Billy Goodnick
Tomatoes with Scott Daigre of TomatoMania
Celebrate TomatoMania with our podcast guest, Scott Diagre
The All New Gardenerd Tip Of the Week Podcast
Spring brings a renewed sense of hope to our daily lives. We spring clean, we clear out the cobwebs; out with the old, in with the new. Such is the case with the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast. For 10 years, we posted a weekly tip in 2-minutes or less. We ranked in the Top 5 gardening podcasts the entire time. It was fun, but after 10 years and 473 podcasts (and a book compiling all of those into…
Grafting with David King
Learn the basics of grafting with our podcast guest, David King
Organic Pest Control
We write a lot about pest control from an organic perspective, but you might not notice. You might expect us to talk about which USDA organic sprays to use, but we don't do that lately here at Gardenerd (our older posts include sprays and powders that are OMRI and USDA approved). Instead, we focus on soil health, physical barriers, using microbiology to build a healthier garden with less work, and a few traps to catch critters that won't go away…
The top three choices came in loud and clear.
Survey Results – What You Want to Learn in 2018
Thank you to everyone who participated in our New Year's survey about what you want to learn in 2018. It's so helpful to know what you gardenerds want to explore this year. It's hard to limit the choices to just 3, but it does help narrow the field. Which Topic Won? Topping the list of topics to cover in 2018 were: What to Grow When? Organic Pest Control Garden Design Surprisingly, Garden Design rose to the top three from pretty…
The finished product is sweet and savory, tender-crisp and delicious.
Recipe: Baked Parmesan Zucchini for 4th of July
Happy 4th of July! Are you sick of zucchini yet? Here at Gardenerd we strive to find new ways to use zucchini, many of which hide the ubiquitous fruit well. This is not one of those recipes. This one features zucchini in all its glory. Baked Parmesan Zucchini. We featured this recipe on last week's Tip of the Week podcast, but here's the real deal to back it up. They're tender-crisp and great for eating while outside in the garden…
Seedlingers makes biodegradable pots and all-natural fertilizers.
Contest: America’s Best Gardener
Want to win $10,000? Sign up to participate in the 2017 ‘America’s Best Gardener’ Contest. The 2017 ‘America’s Best Gardener’ contest, presented by Seedlingers, will be working with garden writers from around the United States (including yours truly) to select and award more than $50,000 in cash and prizes to gardeners in three categories. Here's the official press release: This Spring, the America’s Best Gardener™ Contest will open the nationwide search for America’s Best Gardener in three categories - Best…
Identify the male squash flower. Step 1 for hand pollinating.
Hand Pollinating Squash
Early-season gardeners in warm-weather climates are planting zucchini, yellow crookneck and winter squashes already. Flowers open, bees and other pollinators arrive, and soon there will be an abundance of squashes for eating and sharing. But with pollinator populations on the decline, we leave nothing to chance here at Gardenerd HQ. We hand pollinate. Perhaps you've heard our Tip of the Week Podcast on hand pollinating before. Now we're providing a visual companion. Here's an easy guide to hand pollinating your…
Gopher hole next to a Romanesco plant. Luckily the Romanesco got out alive.
Ask Gardenerd: What don’t Squirrels, Gophers and Rabbits Eat?
A question came into Ask Gardenerd last week: "What don't gophers, squirrels, and rabbits like, as I have no veggie luck. Renee" Oh, Renee, I wish I could say there is a food in the garden that these creatures don't like, but the truth is with very few exceptions they love them all. Some folks say the onion family wards away critters, but I've had gophers take down my leeks and onions from roots to green tips. Squirrels love my…