New green onions sprouting from the green onion seed head. We've never seen this happen before. Exciting!
Wordless Wednesday: Hot Times
Here's some inspiration for the week as you try to keep cool.
Volunteer sunflowers with corn in the background.
Wordless Wednesday: Summer is On!
Summer is on at Gardenerd HQ, and hopefully in your garden too. Here's some eye candy to celebrate.
Mittens relaxes in the mini orchard at Gardenerd HQ.
Wordless Wednesday: Late Spring Enticements
Late spring is filled with enticements. Flowers, sprouting veggies, fruit setting on the vine. It's all good. Here's some inspiration to keep you going as the heat comes on, and summer approaches.
Green onion seeds are fresh and ready to harvest for succession planting.
Wordless Wednesday: Spring is Late!
With all the rain this season, spring is late. So fear not, fair gardenerd, you aren't behind schedule. Everything is behind schedule this year!
Mittens waits to get inside for dinner. She's catching grasshoppers but it's not enough calories for this gal.
Wordless Wednesday: Garden Glory
Record rainfall resulted in an outburst of color and fragrance, AKA, garden glory, here at Gardenerd HQ.
5 1/2 inches of rain made up our last storm. That's more than a third of our annual CA rainfall total in regular years.
Wordless Wednesday: Spring is Bustin’ Out
The first warm day in ages graced us with its presence this week. A break in the rain gave us time to snap a few photos of what's bustin' out in the garden this spring.
The navel orange is covered in blossoms. Time to fertilize!
Wordless Wednesday: Weird Weather
The weird weather in California is making national headlines. Snow showed up in places it never dared to appear before, and rain has been "extra" this winter.
The harvest basket is filled with lettuces, kale, radishes, herbs like dill, cilantro and arugula.
Wordless Wednesday: This is Winter
This is winter at Gardenerd HQ. Here's some eye candy to get you through until your last frost.
Meyer lemons are ripening.
Wordless Wednesday: Winter Abundance
The term "winter garden" may sound like an oxymoron to half of the country, but for southern gardens, winter abundance is happening now.
Winter squash harvest basket
Wordless Wednesday: Thanksgiving Garden
We're hard at work cooking for Thanksgiving over here at Gardenerd HQ. But there's always time to share the latest eye-candy from the fall garden.