Gardening News

Another in a series of posts to bring you interesting garden-related stories. This week we have links to a few articles we think you'll like and news about events in Southern California. A Plan to Turn Brooklyn's Unused Acres Green: This article is about a truly great idea that a group of Brooklyn gardeners called...

Tuesday’s Tips — Easy-to-Build Raised Bed

I've been in my house for most of the time that I've lived in California — 19 years. And in all that time I've missed having the big, productive vegetable garden that I had in Pennsylvania. There are a lot of reasons that I haven't been growing vegetables here; too little time, not enough sun,...

Tuesday’s Tips — Fall Garden Cleanup

Why are we startled? Really!? Fall comes every year at the same time, yet we always seem to be caught off guard when those first cool mornings hit. For most it means the end of the growing season and a welcome respite from our garden chores. But not so fast buckaroo! There's still the Fall...

Sunday Zen

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Tuesday’s Tips — Fruit Set Problems in Squash

Or we might have titled this post "Why Bees Are So Important." In January the press reported that scientists had noticed a significant decline in bumblebee populations in the U.S. — first it was the honeybees that were disappearing and now it's bumblebees too. Scientists are not sure why just yet, but one thing they...

Garden Journal — Protecting Veggies in Cool Weather

Mary Beth: This was my project last weekend for my raised vegetable beds. I got this idea from the Sunset web site and it worked amazingly well. Ray and I modified the design a bit based on how I made the beds which are on a slope and are very irregularly shaped. When I made...

Tuesday’s Tips — Finding Answers to Gardening Questions

Even though Mary Beth and I are Master Gardeners with many years experience we are often vexed by gardening questions we can't answer or situations where we've tried everything we know and problems are still not resolved. Other times we're pretty sure we know what we're talking about, but we want to be damn sure...