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California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Book Review
If you want to grow a beautiful and bountiful edible garden in California, Claire Splan’s new book is your guide to success. California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening addresses the challenges gardeners face in the Golden State.
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How to Keep Cilantro Fresh
2 commentsI hated wasting cilantro that had turned mushy, so I experimented with three different ways to keep this herb garden fresh for weeks. Here’s what I found works best.
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QUESTION: Differentiating cherry tomato varieties by leaves
1 commentI pulled a lot of volunteer tomatoes from my yard from last year's harvest and want to replant only the large cherry tomato plants. Is there any way to determine which ones they are based on...
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Front Yard Vegetable Gardening
If you’re tired of spending time and energy growing a green, but inedible front yard, there’s a delicious alternative waiting for you.
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Prolific Pole Beans
5 commentsPole bean varieties are tender, flavorful, prolific, and easy to grow. They're the perfect vegetable crop for the home garden.
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New Zucchini and Romaine Recommendations
3 commentsAre you looking for ways to make gardening a little easier this year? Here are two vegetable varieties that can help.
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Building A Raised Bed, Part I
2 commentsThis video goes over the advantages raised beds offer, as well as what you will need to build one.
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Building A Raised Bed, Part II
In this second video, the raised bed is put together from the pieces we prepared in the first video.
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Harvesting Edible Weeds from the Backyard
With the advent of spring weather comes a huge variety of wild edibles in our gardens and yards, and these can be harvested and brought into the kitchen. Learn how to harvest three of my spring favorites: stinging nettle, dandelion, and chickweed.
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Video Recipe: Green Goodness Soup
Try using your wild backyard weeds to make a delicious and healthy seasonal soup.
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Video: How to Harvest Chickweed
There are many delicious wild edibles in our gardens and backyards awaiting harvest. If you are not certain of the plants' identification, use your guidebooks to identify them.
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Video: How to Harvest Dandelion
There are many delicious wild edibles in our gardens and backyards awaiting harvest. If you are not certain of the plants' identification, use your guidebooks to identify them. Here are a few seasonal favorites.
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Video: How to Harvest Stinging Nettles
Stinging nettle is a great spring tonic, but the leaves and stem are prickly and will sting bare skin. See how to harvest it in this video.
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Prepping Edible Weeds for Cooking
Once you have harvested some of your edible weeds, bring them into the kitchen and clean them in order to create a tasty green soup.
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"Organic Gardener's Companion" Book Review
It is possible to grow an organic vegetable garden in the West. All you need is soil, sun, seeds and Jane Shellenberger’s new book.
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Unique Collaboration Grows in Denver
Vegetable gardens are sprouting all over the Denver metro area, thanks to a unique collaboration to grow food in city parks.
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'Cayennetta' is New Pepper for 2012
3 commentsAll-America Selections has named the ‘Cayennetta’ pepper a Vegetable Award Winner for 2012. Here’s what you need to know to grow this mildly spicy pepper.
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Herbs for Tea
I recently gave a program on herbs to grow for tea. Now would be the time to design a tea party garden or plant tea herbs in containers. See the list below for my favorites.
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Take the Time to Attend Local Garden Events
Here I am reporting from the road... If you have a garden show, plant sale or seed swap happening in your area, these are worthwhile events to attend; you can gather ideas, learn new things, network with other like-minded individuals, obtain plants and seeds, not to mention get inspired!
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Growums - Garden Starter Kits For Kids
2 commentsGrowums gardening kits make it simple for children to start a fun and easy- to-grow vegetable or herb garden.
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