It's stinging nettle season. Check out recipes for this underappreciated wild green.
Wordless Wednesday: Winter’s Crazy Garden
Get inspired to grow this season with this motivational Wordless Wednesday.
Purple mustard greens are gracing salads this fall, along with lettuces and other greens.
Wordless Wednesday: Wonder-full Fall Gardening
As seedlings take hold as we enter the wonder-full fall gardening time. Radishes, lettuces, brassicas, peas, and more are filling the beds. Inspiration for your garden!
It's pomegranate season! We love putting arils on salads, roasted squash, and more.
Wordless Wednesday: Getting it Planted
Here at Gardenerd HQ we're getting it planted. Fall crops are in! Here's some inspiration to help you get it planted too.
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.
Winter squashes in the harvest basket include spaghetti, delicata, and several varieties of pumpkins
Wordless Wednesday: Shoulder Season
The shoulder season is what some people call that time between summer and fall. Here's some inspiration to get you through this pause before planting fall crops.
Tree kale is happy year round, but especially in winter.
Wordless Wednesday: Fall Garden Time
It's fall garden time...or is it? False Fall #1 is about to end in Los Angeles - another week of hot weather is coming soon. Here's some inspiration for the transition to fall.
Mittens returns from her morning yard inspection.
Wordless Wednesday: Summer Heat
Summer heat has arrived in Los Angeles. Here's some inspiration to keep you going through the heat.
We'll have a few blood oranges this winter when these ripen.
Wordless Wednesday: Covid Summer
I'm down with Covid this week, so here's some inspiration to get you through whatever you are dealing with this first week of summer.
The bees are surrounded by flowers in bloom right now. Love-in-a-mist is beautiful this time of year.
Wordless Wednesday: Change is Inevitable
Change is inevitable. We are used to seasonal changes in the garden, but permanent changes are harder to swallow.
the bees love these lime geranium flowers
Wordless Wednesday: Garden Changes
While the astronomical start of summer is still a few weeks away, the garden changes happening now affirm that summer is here.